IDRC welcomes its 2021 Research Award Recipients
The IDRC Research Awards offer recipients a one-year program at IDRC that includes field research (virtual in 2021) in a developing country on a topic within IDRC’s thematic areas of focus. The program also provides hands-on experience in research management, grant administration, and the creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge from an international perspective.
This year’s Bentley Research Fellowship was awarded to Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, who is completing a PhD in Geography at the University of Guelph. The Fellowship will support his research on “Digitalization of smallholder agriculture: pathways to food security and livelihood-based agricultural systems resilience in northern Ghana”.
Meet the 2021 Research Award Recipients and learn more about their research topics:
Abdul-Rahim ABDULAI
Abdulai was awarded the Bentley Research Fellowship
Research: Digitalization of smallholder agriculture: Pathways to food security and livelihood-based agricultural systems resilience in northern Ghana
Abdul-Rahim is completing his PhD in Geography at the University of Guelph
Maryam ABO MOSLIM
Will be hosted by IDRC’s Advisory Committee on Research Ethics (ACRE) and Global Health program
Research: Ethical dilemmas and the development of an ethics framework for the implementation of a mHealth (mobile health) intervention in the context of the Rwandan COVID-19 public health response
Maryam is completing her Masters in Science at the University of British Columbia
Elisabeth Ilboudo NEBIE
Will be hosted by IDRC’s Climate-resilient Food Systems program
Research: “Famines are a thing of the past”: Indigenous resilience strategies as drivers of change in the rural food environment in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Elisabeth completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
To Trieu Hai LY (known as Tracy)
Will be hosted by IDRC’s Education and Science program
Research: Bridging the digital gender divide via educational innovations – the case of Vietnam
Tracy completed her Masters of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia
Isabel FOSTER
Will be hosted by IDRC’s Global Health program
Research: Differential experiences of infectious disease stigma by gender: a mixed-methods analysis of community members affected by tuberculosis in South Africa
Isabel completed her Masters in Science, Global Health at McMaster University
Natasha CHHABRA
Will be hosted by IDRC’s Democratic and Inclusive Governance program
Research: The gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among internal migrants in India
Natasha will be completing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Maryland in 2023
Shilpi TRIPATHI
Will be hosted by IDRC’s Sustainable and Inclusive Economies program
Research: Impact of foreign direct investment on environment in India since liberalization (1991)
Shilpi completed her PhD in Environmental Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India
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