Education
Education is the greatest global opportunity for preparing adolescents for life, work, and active citizenship. The Accelerate Hub investigates the barriers and opportunities for education and schooling in Africa, and their wider implications on health, wellbeing, and livelihoods.
Two are Better Than One but Three is Best: Fast-Tracking the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Among School-Going Adolescents in Nigeria
Data used in this study was part of a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2004 to investigate the health of secondary students in rural and urban ...
Generation of podcasts
Building on the successful first generation of Hub podcasts in 2019, this project will generate podcasts drawing in people from different parts of the Hub ...
Interventions through interdisciplinary co-creation and narrative approaches
This initiative brings together scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines, with interconnecting interests in narrative and its social and cultural impacts to use storytelling and ...
MAISHA longitudinal study
A four-wave cohort study of adult women in Mwanza, Tanzania investigating predictors and consequences of intimate partner violence, including its impact on adolescents. Team: Professor ...
Ibadan in-school adolescents
A cross-sectional study with 3000 adolescents in Nigeria, with a focus on mental health and educational outcomes. Team: Professor Olayinka Omigbodun (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme on adolescent health and wellbeing
Led by Dr William Rudgard (University of Oxford) and Silinganisiwe Dzumbunu (University of Cape Town), this project is aimed at evaluating the effects of the ...
HEY BABY
HEY BABY (Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children) is a longitudinal mixed-methods cohort study of 1046 adolescent mothers ...
Overcoming barriers to youth employment
The SUPER study is led by researchers from the Universities of Cape Town, Glasgow, Oxford, and Stellenbosch together with international agencies and implementing partners. The ...
