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	Who We Are Contact Us Home How To Join Activities Links Reseach & Archives Events BZS RESEARCH REGISTER 2005/6 Updated July 2006 This is a listing of current research on Zimbabwe , prepared by the BZS as a service to the academic community and other interested visitors to our website. The listing is constantly evolving and makes no claim to be comprehensive. Research projects are included at the request of the researchers concerned; if you would like to have your own research listed here, please contact the compilers: Sara Rich Dorman , University of Edinburgh sara.dorman@ed.ac.uk Diana Jeater , University of the West of England diana.jeater@uwe.ac.uk Oliver Phillips, University of Westminster oliverph@homechoice.co.uk Please provide the following information as your submission: Name: Institutional affiliation: Email: Title of Research Project: Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Date of submission: LISTING OF RESEARCH PROJECTS *************************************************************** Name: Professor Patricia Alden Institutional affiliation: St. Lawrence University, Canton , NY 13617 USA Email: palden@stlawu.edu Title of Research Project: Dies Irae: Zimbabwean Writers and the Present Crisis Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Living in the midst of crisis, Zimbabwean writers have been remarkably productive; in the past five years three substantial collections of short fiction, including the work of well-known and new Zimbabwean writers, new novels from Chinodya and from Dangarembga, and an important collection of essays on literature and culture have appeared. This body of work explores changing power and gender relationships within the family and society, economic disruptions of globalization, and psychological disorientation that follows the implosion of traditional norms; broadly, this work affirms the existence of a vital civil society in which diverse voices have their say about what contemporary Zimbabwe is and should be. Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Lizzy Attree Institutional affiliation: SOAS Email: lizzyattree@hotmail.com Title of Research Project: The literary response to HIV & AIDS in Zimbabwe and South Africa from 1990 - 2005 Short Description of Project (50-100 words): The representation of HIV/AIDS in literature from Zimbabwe and South Africa can be said to disrupt unitary concepts of the nation, such that the novels and short stories that I have collected can be seen to contain subversive, alternative narratives of Zimbabwean and South African life. I examine the relationship between disease and narrative; taboo, sex and trauma; homosexuality; plague, apocalypse and spirituality; women writing AIDS; AIDS and the city; shared spaces of infection; confessional, witness and testimony literature as well as the impact AIDS has had on masculine narratives. Date of submission: October 2005 ************************************************************* Name: Patrick Bond Institutional affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society Email: pbond@mail.ngo.za Title of Research Project: Ongoing analysis of political economy, politics and civil society. Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Ongoing analysis of political economy, politics and civil society. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************* Name: Dr. Myrna CAPP Institutional Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Music Seattle Pacific University Email: mcapp@spu.edu Keeping the Embers Alive: Musicians of Zimbabw e is a book manuscript by Myrna Capp. The book contains edited interviews, commentary, photographs, sketches, and a sampler CD. It is to be published in summer, 2006 by Africa World Press and Red Sea Press. Musicians included in the book are Oliver Mtukudzi, Stella Chiweshe, Lucky Moyo, Ephat Mujuru, Cosmas Magaya, Beauler Dyoko, Busi Ncube, Chiwoniso Maraire, Albert Nyathi, Amai Muchena, Farai Gezi, Joyce Jenji Makwenda, and Bryan Paul . Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Padraig Carmody Institutional affiliation: St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University Email: padraig.carmody@spd.dcu.ie Title of Research Project: Neoliberalism and NEPAD (In)Action: Zimbabwe Short description of project (50-100 words): This is a chapter for a book project entitled "Transforming and Transcending Neoliberalism in Africa : New Civil Societies, Partnerships and Securities". This chapter examines why the neoliberal New Partnership for African Development has not been applied in Zimbabwe and whether or not it would be likely to reverse the politico-economic crisis in that country if it were. It argues that as neoliberalism is heavily implicated in the crisis in Zimbabwe , it is part of the problem, rather than the solution. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Margret Chipara Institutional Affiliation: Department of Modern Languages of the University of Zimbabwe Email: mls@mweb.co.zw I am carrying out research on the challenges of teaching and learning Portuguese in Zimbabwe . Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Wallace Chuma Institutional affiliation: University of Cape Town , Centre for Film & Media Studies Email: wchuma@humanities.uct.ac.za Title of Research Project: Mediating the transition: The press, state and capital in Zimbabwe (1980-2005) Short Description of Project (50-100 words): This research project focuses on shifting press, state and capital relations during the different phases of the post-colonial transition and how these relations influence the press's mediation of political contestation in the country. I examine in particular selected newspapers's coverage of elections in 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2002. The selected newspapers include the Herald, Sunday Mail, Financial Gazette, Mirror , Zimbabwe Independent and Daily News.My examination of press-state-capital relations is based on qualitative interviews, document analysis, and other secondary literature. Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Marieke Clarke Institutional affiliation: Britain Zimbabwe Society, Oxfam (retired) Email: mariekefclarke@pop3.poptel.org.uk Title of Research Project: A Gandhian in ZAPU Short Description of Project (50-100 words): R.K. Naik, a Bulawayo-born Gujarati speaker of humble economic origins was inspired by the Indian independence movement to support that of Zimbabwe . At great personal cost, this successful businessman rose to be a member of ZAPU's central committee and assistant treasurer to the National Financial Secretary. The central figure of the Lotus Group, R.K. Naik was often imprisoned and finally suffered restriction for many months in Gonakudzingwa owing to his loyalty to the Independence movement. From 1977 to 1980 R.K. Naik was ZAPU's representative in Botswana . Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************** Name: Marieke Clarke Institutional affiliation: Britain Zimbabwe Society. Oxfam (retired) Email: mariekefclarke@pop3.poptel.org.uk Title of Research Project: Lozikeyi, Queen of the Ndebele: a very dangerous and intriguing woman Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Queen Lozikeyi Dlodlo, born into a distinguished family of izinyanga, was King Lobhengula's senior wife. After his disappearance, she remained a power in the land and took it upon herself to speak for the Ndebele people. She was one of Cecil Rhodes's most formidable opponents: she played an important part in planning the 1896 Revolt and providing arms for the soldiers from the late king's armoury. From 1909, she was responsible for giving royal blessing to Christianity as taught by the London Missionary Society in Matebeleland. She did this because she saw the importance of western-style education. Her example still inspires ordinary people in western Zimbabwe to resist oppression and stand up for their rights. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Professor Geoffrey V. Davis Institutional affiliation: University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany Email: davis@anglistik1.rwth-aachen.de Title of Research Project: Issue of Matatu with Rodopi bv publishers, Amsterdam and New York Short Description of Project (50-100 words): A collection of essays on Zimbabwean writing and culture in collaboration with Dr. Mbongeni Malaba (now University of Namibia ). Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Sara Rich DORMAN Institutional affiliation: University of Edinburgh Email:sara.dorman@ed.ac.uk Title of Research Project: Civic Space and Politics from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe : a prliminary study Short Description of Project (50-100 words): This project will begin with a study of the politics of the Harare city council in relation to the national political situation (and vice-versa), focussing on the experiences of local political activists in Harare , and attempts to build local, civic associations. Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************** Name: Dr Joost Fontein Institutional affiliation: Social Anthropology & CAS, University of Edinburgh Email: j.fontein@ed.ac.uk Title of Research Project: An ethnographic Study of the Politics of Land, Water and 'Tradition' around Lake Mutirikwi in southern Zimbabwe Short Description of Project (50-100 words): This project focuses on the way in which people utilise and articulate different languages, practices and techniques of land and water in ongoing struggles over authority and social, cultural, material and other resources around Lake Mutirikwi in Masvingo Province. One aspect focuses on memory, landscape and foregtting, whilst another focuses on the micropolitcs of land reform, and the different ways in which individual and group postions are negotiated through using and appealing to different but overlapping imaginations and practices of landscape, authority and the state. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Tim Hallett Institutional affiliation: Imperial College London Email: timothy.hallett@imperial.ac.uk Title of Research Project: Transmission Dynamics of HIV and the Impact of Interventions Short Description of Project (50-100 words): The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continues to devastate the populations throughout the world but few countries are more affiliated than Zimbabwe , where more than one in five adults are estimated to be living with the virus. Understanding the behavioural factors that support such an epidemic could enable scarce funds to be efficiently targeted at interventions to subvert further spread. Assessing the importance of certain types of sexual behaviour, though, is complicated by the way the epidemic itself can alter the sexual network through which it spreads. Moreover, the deliberate adoption of alternative patterns of sexual behaviour may have unforeseen knock-on consequences for the structure of sexual network. Understanding, the link between sexual behaviour, the natural dynamics of the epidemic, and the consequences of natural and forced changes to the sexual network is crucial if effective policies are to be developed to limit the transmission of HIV in the absence of safe and effective vaccine. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Masashi Iida Institutional affiliation: Kyoto University , Japan Email: masasi@jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp Title of Research Project: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Urban Women's Organisations in Zimbabwe Short Description of Project (50-100 words): My current research on Zimbabwe is a study of HIV/AIDS pandemic and urban women's organisations. I am interested in the continuity and discontinuity of women's experiences in urban area before and after the pandemic. Major fieldwork was undertaken September 2003 to June 2004 and September 2005 to now (till August 2006) in Mbare and Greendale , Harare . Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Adrienne LeBas Institutional affiliation: Nuffield College , Oxford University; Michigan State University (Ph.D., Columbia University ) Email: AML75@columbia.edu Title of Research Project: Polarization and Party Development: Capturing Constituencies in Democratizing Africa Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Why are some social movements able to mobilize large constituencies and form cohesive political parties, while opposition in other countries remains fragmented on particularistic lines? The dissertation, which I will begin revising this year into a book manuscript, draws on two years of fieldwork in Zimbabwe and Zambia in order to answer this question. The explanation relies on historical institutionalism, emphasizing the legacies of particular forms of state rule on labor politics, but it also assigns importance to strategic interaction and elite choice. In particular, I look at the ways in which polarization is used by elites to solve problems of party formation and cohesion. The project is primarily qualitative in approach, though the book will include a large-N statistical chapter. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************* Name: Irikidzayi Manase Institutional Affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa . Email: imanase@yahoo.com Title of Research Project: Literary and cultural trends in a censored Zimbabwean social and political space. The research studies various literary and cultural trends (popular, urban, youth, land, visual and political cultures) emerging in Zimbabwe since 2000. The emphasis is on themes such as survival techniques employed by the youth and urban dwellers, ordinary people's attempts at transgressing the censored political, media and cultural space, and attempting an expansion on or revisit available body of literary and cultural theories and perspectives based on these Zimbabwean experiences. Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Everisto Mapedza, Alcoa Research Fellow Institutional affiliation: LSE, Centre for Environmental Policy Governance (CEPG) Email: E.Mapedza@lse.ac.uk or mapedza@yahoo.co.uk Title of Research Project: Political uncertainty and its implications for Natural Resource Management Experiences from Co-management and CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Political uncertainty has had an impact in the management of forestry and wildlife resources in the Gokwe area of Zimbabwe . This political uncertainty resulted in an increase in the role of party politics in local environmental governance, settlement on state land, high inflation, withdrawal of bilateral donor funds and an acceptance of a culture of impunity, which compromised the rule of law. These developments greatly undermined natural resource management initiatives in both Mafungautsi and Nenyunga as the incentives for the management of natural resources were seriously reduced. Through the use of different indicators, this research shows how this has impacted negatively on the institutions managing natural resources. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: David Maxwell Institutional affiliation: Keele University Email: d.j.maxwell@keele.ac.uk Title of Research Project: African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement Short Description of Project (50-100 words): The study considers the origins and contemporary appeal of born-again Christianity in Africa through a study of one of Continent's most dynamic Pentecostal movements, Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa, (ZAOGA). Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************* Name: William MIDZI Institutional affiliation: Human Rights Centre, University of Essex Programme: MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights Email: wmidzi@yahoo.co.uk Title of Research Project: HIV/AIDS and Governance in the Human Rights Discourse in Zimbabwe : A Comparative Perspective. Short Description of Project (50-100 words): I propose to investigate the dynamics of making and shaping of the HIV/AIDS policy in Zimbabwe and how it interacts and is shaped by power relations. I will study how HIV/AIDS impacts on state’s capacity to steer and control coherence through a sustained co-ordination of several actors in combating the epidemic in Zimbabwe . Furthermore, I will study how government interacts with its external environment, self governing networks, and partnerships in processes that configure various interests among these actors whose agency critically matters making and shaping this policy. This will culminate in a comparative analysis of the quality of Zimbabwe’s response with the response of two other Southern African states, Botswana and South Africa as well as Uganda from Eastern Africa. I will show the theoretical, methodological and substantive implications of my research findings for governance of HIV/AIDS that is consistent with an effective, inclusive and integrated health system in Zimbabwe . Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Dr E Msindo Institutional affiliation: Rhodes University Email: e.msindo@ru.ac.za or wakanaka1@yahoo.com Title of Research Project: Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Bulawayo Experience, 1940s-1970s. Short Description of Project (50-100 words): An attempt to unravel the multiplayered identities that have characterised on of the old colonial cities of Zimbabwe , Bulawayo . Assuming ethnicity to have been a problem in Bulawayo from the foundation of the city, I will attempt to assess how ethnic groups responded to the rise of nationalism, and what kind of 'nationalism' Bulawayans thought of during that time. Whether at all nationalism really eclipsed ethnicity or they were co-existent identities, and whatever is the conclusion, how were these two identities instantiated in the city at that time? Date of submission: JULY 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Dr Sabelo J . Ndlovu-Gatsheni Institution of Affiliation: Monash University , South Africa Campus E-mail: sgatsha@yahoo.co.uk Research Project: Re-Thinking and Re-Imagining Nationalism in 21st Century Africa : Ideology, Epistemology and Philosophy Short Description: This is a collaborative book research project into the main contours of nationalism in 21st century Africa . A CFP has been sent out and the deadline for abstracts is 30 June 2006 . Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Josephine NHONGO-SIMBANEGAVI Institutional affiliation: University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa (temporary) Email: lisbethogoat@hotmail.com Title of Research Project: Gender and Migration in Southern Africa Short Description of Project (50-100 words): The study explores the gender dimensions of cross-border movements in 20th century Southern Africa . Zimbabwe is covered together with five other Southern African countries, namely, Malawi , Zambia , Mozambique , Botswana & South Africa. I use a gender-informed approach in order to throw light onto historically invisible movements (mainly female) and to assess the extent to which they promote or subvert officially-assisted movements (mainly male). A gendered approach also facilitates closer examination of the nature and value of trans-nationally mobile goods and services in the 20 th century, therefore, enhancing our understanding of Southern African countries' economic and social network systems at both domestic and regional levels. Date of submission: September 2005 ************************************************************* Name: Dr Sue Onslow Institutional affiliation: International History Department, London School of Economics Email: s.onslow@lse.ac.uk Title of Research Project: Britain and Rhodesia 1953-1979; Rhodesian/South African/Portuguese relations 1963-1980. Short Description of Project (50-100 words): The international dimensions of the lengthy Rhodesian UDI crisis: (i)Examination of the Rhodesian question upon Britain ’s management of its foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s (in particular, the interaction of the Rhodesia Front regime and British domestic politics; the impact upon UK relations with the Commonwealth, the USA , Portugal and South Africa ). (ii)The ‘unholy alliance between Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa 1963-1975; and subsequent Rhodesian-South African relations leading up to international recognised independence of Zimbabwe. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Jane L. Parpart Institutional affiliation: Research Fellow at London School of Economics (DESTIN and the Gender Institute) and Research Fellow at Institute of commonwealth Studies, University of London Email: parpart@dal.ca Title of Research Project: Modernities, 'Progress' and the Urban Elite in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1953-1980 (being carried out with Miriam Grant, Calgary University , Canada ) Short Description of Project (50-100 words): African elites have often been seen simply as mimics of Western modernity. This research seeks to understand the way elite Africans sought to frame and shape their own versions of modernities. Additionally, the study is concerned with understanding the variety of worldviews and types of national understandings that emerged among the Bulawayo elite, particularly voices that have been ignored such as the former MPs and moderate liberals. I am also working on a project with Miriam Grant on examing Gender, HIV/AIDS and TB and home-based caregiving. We recently had a workshop in Byo with our research partners in the department of health in Byo and the Salvation Army Hospital in Tshelenyemba. Date of submission: October 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Oliver PHILLIPS Institutional affiliation: School of Law , University of Westminster , London . Email: phillio@wmin.ac.uk Title of Research Project: “Sexuality and the Politics of Rights in Post-colonial Southern Africa : The Legacy of Venus Monstrosa” Short Description of Project (50-100 words): monograph to be published by Glasshouse Press in 2007. The book examines the intersection of sexuality and nation, mapping the historical continuities of regulation through law and culture to bring the recent volatility into sharp focus. It proposes that the association of sexuality with rights invokes implicit concepts of gender power, citizenship and autonomy; these suggest particular notions of a pluralist state, freedom of expression, access to public healthcare, and the active participation of civil society in governance. This book argues that such values are differently contentious within Zimbabwe and South Africa at present, as each negotiates its post-colonial condition in very different ways. It demonstrates that the anti-imperialist invocation of ‘traditional African culture’ so trenchantly wielded in Zimbabwe stands in tense relation to the South African treatment of custom as ‘living’ and thus able to embrace rights. But this claim is complicated by the contention that the dogma of the former casts a convenient shadow in which the limits of the latter more accommodative approach are only temporarily concealed. Sexuality provides a nexus for these symbolic struggles as relations of gender and the contingency of legal subjectivity are shown to be central to the post-colonial redefinition of national culture in these states. Drawing on post-colonial, feminist and critical legal theories, this book brings into focus the current interplay of policies around HIV/AIDS, constitutional power, and criminal justice, in a national and trans-national setting. It examines how individual citizens use rights in negotiating their relationship to structures of traditional authority and of the modern nation-state, and considers how this shapes notions of intimacy and agency. It thereby raises questions concerning the value and distribution of legal subjectivity (agency/capacity/criminality), rights and autonomy, and the relationship of sexuality to gender, within a post-colonial context. Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************** Name: Dr Deborah Potts Institutional affiliation: Geography, King's College London Email: debby.potts@virgin.net Title of Research Project: ongoing research on rural-urban and urban-rural migration and linkages; applied for project on migration patterns of former commercial farm workers Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************* Name: Richard Saunders Institutional affiliation: York University (Dept of Political Science) Email: rsaunder@yorku.ca Title of Research Project: Destructive Integration: South African Investment into SADC in the Post-Apartheid Era Short Description of Project (50-100 words): This multi-country, multi-sector research considers the destabilizing political and economic impact of new waves of South African foreign direct investment into Africa . Zimbabwe is one of the five focus case study countries, and the fieldwork in 2006-07 will expand on my earlier research (1998-2002) on investment impacts in Zimbabwe ’s mining, tourism and finance sectors. This project forms part of a broader research initiative undertaken with colleagues in several southern Africa countries. Date of submission: April 2006 ***************************************************************** Name: Richard Saunders Institutional affiliation: York University (Dept of Political Science) Email: rsaunder@yorku.ca Title of Research Project: Mediating Zimbabwe : The Press, Politics and Power Short Description of Project (50-100 words): Fieldwork in 2004-05 follows earlier work on the political economy of the print media in post-liberation Zimbabwe . Current research examines the origins and impact of State legal and extra-legal relations with the print media in the period 1998-2005, focusing on the evolving relationship with the privately-owned and community-based press. The restructuring of the media sector as a result of the economic crisis is also examined, along with emerging alternative forms of popular media production. Date of submission: March 2006 ************************************************************** Name: Dr Tabona Shoko Institutional Affiliation: University of Zimbabwe , Department of Religious Studies, P.O. Box M.P. 167, Mt Pleasant, Harare , Zimbabwe . E-mail: shokotab@yahoo.com Title of Research Project: “Stones Builders Rejected”: Women and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe . Short Description of Project: This project explores the role and participation of women in sustainable development in the African Traditional and Christian contexts in Zimbabwe . The project seeks to achieve this through examination of the status of women and the challenges they encounter. Most African societies tend to undermine the position of women. However there seems to be some positive contributions towards development. Such efforts have not been sufficiently documented. he project is based on data collected through Tnterviews, participant observation, library and archival materials. It applies phenomenological and historical approaches. Date of submission: August 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Lovemore Togarasei Institutional affiliation: University of Zimbabwe Email: ltogarasei@yahoo.com Title of Research Project: Religion in Harare Short Description of Project (50-100 words): This project aims to document the history of religions that have taken root in Harare focusing on the post-independence period. It seeks, in the process, to analyze the contribution of these religious groups to the politics, economy and social and developmental projects of the city. The project has been taken after realizing that urban religion, as a subject, has been neglected for a long time in Zimbabwe . About twelve members of the department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy are researching on the different religions that are found in the city, from African Traditional Religion to Bahai Faith. We are fortunate to have amongst these researchers, members who belong to some of these religions. Date of submission: August 2005 ************************************************************** Names: [VARIOUS] Simon Gregson – Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator Geoff Garnett – Professor and co-investigator Marie-Claude Boily – Research associate Sabada Dude - PhD student and research assistant Tim Hallett – PhD student and research assistant Ben Lopman – Data analysis co-ordinator Constance Nyamukapa – PhD student and co-investigator Helen Watts - PhD student and research assistant Institutional affiliation: [VARIOUS] Title of Research Project: Manicaland HIV/STD Prevention Study Short Description of Project (50-100 words): There are two overarching aims of The Study. 1 - To monitor the spread of HIV in the study population with a view to understanding which groups of people are infected and who is becoming newly infected. 2 - To provide a population-based sample for implementing and evaluating behaviour-change intervention programmes as well as treatment, care and support programmes. A range of other issues are analysed using the longitudinal, population-based data including the inter-relationships between socioeconomics, demographics and behaviour change with respect to the HIV epidemic. Study design: The Manicaland HIV/STD prevention project is a population-based open cohort study. The study covers 12 socio-economically stratified sites: subsistence farming areas (4), roadside trading centres (2), forestry, tea and coffee estates (4), and small towns (2). The baseline round of the study was conducted between July 1998 and January 2000 with follow-ups conducted every 2 to 3 yrs in each site. First, all members of all households were enumerated in a census (approx 7,500 households). Then adults were selected to participate in the cohort study (approx 10,000 individuals) which involves completing an in-depth questionnaire and giving a blood sample, which is tested for HIV and anonymously linked to the questionnaire data. Between baseline and follow-up, a community randomised trial of a peer education programme was implemented, whereby commercial sex workers were trained to educate their clients, thereby seeding behaviour change. We also use the data from the study to inform models of transmission and demographic impacts of the epidemic. Funding: The core funding for the study comes from the Wellcome Trust. CDC Zimbabwe, UNAIDS, and the European Union fund specific research components, with the World Bank (PCD) and SAT supporting an embedded child cohort study - which aims to examine the health, nutrition and psychosocial impacts of orphanhood. Collaborating Centres: The study is run through the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, a non-for-profit independent research institution based in Harare , Zimbabwe . There are about 40 field staff working on the project. Many of the research assistants who conduct interviews have a background in social work. Nurses, administrators and IT specialists are also members of the team in Harare and in Manicaland. In UK and Europe , we have collaborators at the LSE, UCL/Royal Free Hospital, Loughborough University and ERASMUS ( Rotterdam ) and we are part of a network of population-based longitudinal studies of HIV in Africa called ALPHA-net. Date of submission: April 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Rian Wall, MSS Institutional Affiliation: Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary Email: rianwall@yahoo.com Title of Research Project: South African (non)response to Zimbabwean state terror Short Description: What began as a Masters research project is currently being proposed as a PhD project under the same title and subject matter in South Africa . This research looks at the place of historical constraints and considerations, foreign policy initiatives and cultural affinities in South Africa 's Quiet Diplomacy response to the Zimbabwe crisis. Date of submission: May 2006 Date of submission: July 2006 ************************************************************* Name: Helen Watts Institutional affiliation: Imperial College London Email: h.watts@imperial.ac.uk Title of Research Project: The effect of orphanhood on the health and nutritional status of children in Zimbabwe Short Description of Project (50-100 words): In 2003, there were 43 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa , an increase of more than one-third since 1990. Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of orphaning in sub-Saharan Africa ; more than 15% of children were orphans in Zimbabwe in 2003. Orphans are potentially at increased risk of poor health and nutrition that extend beyond the effects of parent-to-child transmission of HIV infection. The main objective of this research is to investigate the effect of orphanhood on the health and nutritional status of children living in Manicaland, Eastern Zimbabwe . Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Elaine Windrich Institutional affiliation: African Studies Center , Stanford University Email: ewind2@yahoo.com Title of Research Project: Broadcasting in Zimbabwe : The Continuity of Racism and Censorship Short Description of Project (50-100 words): This will be a historical survey, mostly comparing broadcastiong under Rhodesian Front rule with broadcasting under Mugabe's ZANU-PF rule. It will be a continuation of my book on The Mass Media in the Struggle for Zimbabwe : Censorship and Propaganda under Rhodesian Front Rule (Mambo Press, 1981) which ends ar independence. But I hope to include some material on early broadcasting to Southern Rhodesia by the Colonial Office in Northern Rhodesia and by the Salisbury government thereafter. Date of submission: July 2005 ************************************************************** Name: Solmon Zwana Institution: University of Edinburgh . Emails: szwana@minister.com or S.Zwana@sms.ed.ac.uk Title: The relationship between government and religious bodies in the evoulution of church-affiliated universities in Zimbabwe . Short description of project: My ongoing PhD research focuses on the evolution of church-related universities and government policy in Zimbabwe with special interest on areas of conflict and co-operation. It explores the motivations and agendas of churches in establishing universities as an aspect of mission in post-independent Zimbabwe and their political and social impact. Through the study of government and religious policies from this perspective, the study seeks to draw attention to an aspect of the dialogue between churches and the government as yet to be examined in depth. ( Any ideas, suggestions, critiques etc. are welcome). Date of submission: August 2005 ************************************************************** Who We Are Contact Us Home How To Join Activities Links Reseach & Archives Events** Copyright 2006 Britain Zimbabwe Society