5 January 2017
A bid led by Professor Giles Mohan has been awarded almost £150,000 following a successful application to the Global Challenges Research Fund’s Strategic Networks programme, led by ESRC. The project, Migration for Inclusive African Growth Network, concerns the nature of new migrant flows to and within Africa, and the potential impacts on inclusive growth on the continent.
The aim of the Strategic Networks programme is to cultivate networks that will develop larger funding proposals for innovative research on pressing issues in global development. The new project focuses on four countries – Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Mozambique – and draws together expert partners from each in addition to the team based at the OU.
Studying the new migrant flows is important for a number of reasons:
The bid process was highly competitive, with only 22 projects from across the UK receiving funding. Key to Migration for Inclusive African Growth Network's success was its encouragement of early career researchers, and the fact that co-investigators from the target countries will play key roles.
Members of the network will interact through a mix of virtual and face-to-face means organised by the African partners in Africa and supported by the OU’s long experience of such learning events. As a result, a new international network will be established able to develop policy-relevant research and offer advice to GCRF on migration’s role in inclusive growth.
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