News
Social Science Training
September 2016
The ETHICOBOTS Social Science team took members to International Livestock Research Institute for a 3 day training course. Epidemiologist and Project Coordinator, Dr Adane Mihret said:
“We have had a good participatory epidemiology training where almost all attended. We are planning to use the training for our field work in the coming few weeks and hopefully we will test it in Hawassa at the end of October.”
Dr Tilaye facilitating a trial focus group at PE training
Expansion Plans
July 2016
UK partners Prof James Wood and Dr Stefan Berg visited Ethiopia in the last week of July for discussions with Ethiopian Partners. With some changes in key personnel, it was an important opportunity to reevaluate our management structure.
We also looked at possible expansion plans for The National Animal Health Diagnostic and Investigation Centre.
Project Update
June 2016
Last week Louise Horner from our funding body, DFID, caught up with our Ethiopian partners for a project update. Left to right: Dr Adane Mihret, Dr Gobena Ameni, Dr Hawult Taye, Ms Louise Horner, Dr Dawit Alemu, Dr Getnet Mekonnen, Mr Bamlak Tessema.
Practice Makes Perfect…
February 2016
Pilot study conducted in Hawassa
We have designed a large multi-disciplinary questionnaire which will form the basis of our research. The questions posed to farmers will allow us to find out a number of things, including their farming habits and how they manage their own health.
Before extending this to our study sites, we completed a small pilot study to test for problems and to make sure the data was compatible with our database.
Studying the results from the small pilot study will allow us to refine and improve the questionnaire. It also allows us to spot questions which may be superfluous to requirement, and to add questions which we may have missed.
Christmas Presents
January 2016
After a lengthy tender process we have now received all vehicles for our project. These are vital to the success of our field work which relies on travel to and from farms in and around Addis. We hope their benefit will long lasting after our project finishes in 2019, the vehicles will stay at the institutions aiding future research.
Addis Ababa University’s Landcruiser, vital for our field work
Prof Henrietta Moore Awarded DBE
January 2016
Congratulations to Professor Henrietta L. Moore who was made Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to social sciences.
Professor Moore has been honoured in recognition of her contribution to the Social Sciences, and her services to business, policy and the arts. The Honours List notes her extensive empirical work focusing on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and development, as well as her recent work on global sustainable futures, virtual worlds and new technologies.
Grantholders’ Meeting
December 2015
To mark the first year of all projects working on diseases that afflict both humans and animal health worldwide, we hosted the first ZELS Grantholders’ Workshop organised by the BBSRC. The two day event, held at The Møller Centre in Cambridge, encouraged engagement between stakeholders and projects. We enjoyed talking to other projects about potential collaborations that could mutually improve our research.
To coincide with the Grantholders’ Meeting, we also launched our own twitter account: @ethicobots which we will use to promote our activities and important project milestones.
Stefan and Agajie proudly display our impact map – a method of visualising our project goals and the resources required to achieve them
ETHICOBOTS 2015 AGM
October 2015
A year into the ETHICBOTS project, all institutions met on October 1st for the second annual general meeting. Members from each work package gave presentations of their work followed by group discussion. It was a great opportunity to bring the group together to discuss progress and solve challenges in all six work packages. Combining individual work pack meetings with large group discussions, we were able to maintain and encourage vital integration between the science and social science elements of the project.
The ETHICOBOTS team, Oct 2015
