MAKERERE
UNIVERSITY
Developing and Nurturing the Next
Generation of Academics:
Focus on emerging scholars
A presentation
BY`
Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza
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Julius Kikooma
• “Doing Entrepreneurship in Uganda:
The Social Construction of Gendered
Identities of Male and Female
Entrepreneurs”
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Context
• Office of DVC (AA) developed a
programme geared towards nurturing the
next generation of academia
• Sub-programme: Ph.D Dissemination
Seminar Series
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Makerere
• Ph.D is a prerequisite for lecturer
position
• 2005-2010 – 169 graduated with
Ph.Ds
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Attrition: 2005-2010
• Resigned, early retirement,
dismissed, absconded
• 82 academic staff
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Categories
• 41 Ph.D holders
• 3 professors
• 3 Associate Professors
• 10 Senior Lecturers
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Retention
• Many African universities are facing
critical need to replenish their
academic ranks
• How to retain the highly trained
staff
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Constraints
• What are the significant constraints
facing Mak in her efforts to develop
and retain the next generation of
academics
• What are the constraints faced by
young scholars as they attempt to
build a career in academia?
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Promising Approaches
• From intellectual vibrancy to isolation
• Leaders must Facilitate the building of a
community/communities of scholars
• Need to develop mentoring mechanisms
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Seminar: Opportunity
• Individual scholar to share research
findings with the university
community
• Others to Know who is engaged in
particular areas of research
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Seminar Series
• Enhance networking among intellectuals,
contribute towards the building of communities
of scholars
• Opportunity to form Research Networks/Teams
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Interdisciplinary Research:
a global trend
• Societal problems often require
understanding of diverse disciplines to solve –
epidemiology of AIDS; Global Warming,
women’s studies, land use
• Studies which have proved invaluable have
adopted methods and insights of several
established disciplines/ traditional fields of
study
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Interdisciplinary
Research
• Goal is to connect and integrate
several academic disciplines in
pursuit of common task
• Researchers from 2 or more
disciplines pool their approaches and
modify them so that they are better
suited to the problem at hand
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Post –Doctoral Research
• Series may facilitate formation of interdisciplinary research networks
• Bring together academia from across
disciplines
• Need to encourage inter-disciplinary
research at post-doctoral level
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Beyond Seminars: Skills
Enhancement
• Public Speech and Presentation
• Communication beyond one’s field of
expertise
• Popular Briefs
• Communication to policy makers
• Scholarly writing and publication
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Skills
• Use of IT in knowledge delivery
• Use of inter-net as source of
intellectual material
• Power point presentation
• How to form research teams
• How to conduct inter-disciplinary
research
Dissemination
• Accountability to the University
Community by scholar
• Opportunity for members of the university
community to hear about the research
that is going on within the community.
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Value to External
Stakeholders
• Accountability to the Nation: What is the
relevance of Makerere?
• Opportunity for members of the general
public to access information about the
latest findings and developments in the
particular presenter’s area of expertise.
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•Leading research institution –
premier university
•Keenly aware that in our 20092019 Strategic Plan, we have
vowed to be a research led
university
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Knowledge Creation
• Knowledge creation –Ph.D Training
invaluable source
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Regardless of discipline
• An intellectual’s mission is to advance
knowledge, engage with the changing
issues of society, respond to the
problems of her society
• Gender disparities in economic
empowerment?
• Entrepreneurship as gendered
terrain
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Beyond peer reviewed
journals
• Must offer ourselves to broader
audiences (such as happens in Public
Seminars), so as to capture the ears
of policy makers, practitioners and
indeed the general public
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Mak Role
• As Faculty of a premier University in
Africa Makerere academia have a
duty to take the lead and in fact
enrich public debate on issues of
National Import and National
development
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Mak-UWEA Partnership
• Uganda needs to unleash women’s untapped economic
potential to scale up enterprise development in its
prosperity for all programmes
• Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association is an important
partner
• Aims at addressing gender disparities by enhancing and
empowering the economic status of women in Uganda
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UWEA
• Must engage in evidence based
decision making in her choice of
mechanisms for implementing her
goals
• Research enables evidence based
decision making
• Rigorous and cultural specific
research
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THANK YOU
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