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Professor Nicola Ansell
Professor - Human Geography
Marie Jahoda 204
- Email: nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266085
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
Research area(s)
Social and cultural change in the lives of young people in the Global South (particularly in southern Africa); politics and impacts of global policy agendas (particularly in the areas of education, children’s rights and social protection); geographies of youth and childhood; scalar politics; participatory research.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Equipping Lesotho's primary school teachers for educating and motivating rural children.
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: April 2021 - April 2023
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: April 2021 - April 2023
Education systems aspiration and learning in remote rural settings
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: June 2016 - June 2018
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: June 2016 - June 2018
Social cash transfers generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi
Funder: ESRC
Duration: October 2015 - September 2018
Funder: ESRC
Duration: October 2015 - September 2018
Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: April 2007 - April 2009
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: April 2007 - April 2009
Project details
- (ESRC-DFID £45,199) with Paramente Phamotse, Edith Sebatane and Julia Chere
- settings (ESRC-DFID £595,101) with , Roy Huijsmans and Ian Rivers
- (ESRC-DFID £299,870, 2015-8) with Lorraine van Blerk, Elsbeth Robson, Flora Hajdu, Evance Mwathunga and Thandie Hlabana
- Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people (DFID-ESRC: £201,757, 2007-8) with Elsbeth Robson and Lorraine van Blerk
- Global-local dialogue in responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Lesotho's education sector: meeting vulnerable children's needs? (RGS: £2,000, 2003)
- Young AIDS migrants in southern Africa: dissemination (DFID: £6,404, 2002) with Lorraine Young
- Young AIDS migrants in southern Africa (DFID: £48,604, 2000)
Research links
Co-author network
Similar research interests
- Professor Kate Hoskins
- Professor Maria Tsouroufli
- Professor Peggy Froerer
- Professor Ourania Filippakou
- Dr Justin O'Brien
Research group(s)
- IEHS