RECOUPTheme 1: three linked projects on human and social outcomes

Consortium Advisory Group Meeting, Cambridge, 15 October 2008

Situation of Theme 1 qualitative projects Project Ghana India Kenya Pakistan

Health & Fertility [H&F]

1 3 0 2

Youth, Gender & Citizenship [YGC]

2 0 2 0

Disability, Education & Poverty [DEPP]

0 2 1 0

0= Yet to start data collection

1= Data collection in process

2= Data collection completed, preliminary analysis under way

3= Analysis on-going, output available

Published outputs from RECOUP work: Health and Fertility [H&F]

2 working papers (India, Pakistan) Disability, Education and Poverty

[DEPP] 2 working papers (General, India) Journal article (India, in Econ. & Pol. Weekly) Accepted journal article (India, in APDRJ, 2009) Policy Brief (General)

Youth, Gender and Citizenship [YGC] Accepted journal article (Compare, on African

and Indian gender theory) Introduction to Special Issue (Compare)

Aslam, M., Kingdon, G. and S. Malik, ‘Maternal Education and Child Health – Understanding the Pathways in Pakistan’, mimeo, CSAE, May 08

In Pakistan, testing relationships between maternal schooling and child health outcomes (child height, weight and arm-

circumference) parental health-seeking behaviour (immunisation status of

children)

Looks at the pathways through which maternal education has its impact on child health/ health-seeking behaviour

Only maternal health knowledge helps explain immunisation status for young children, and mother’s education has a direct positive effect only in determining younger children’s heights

Further quantitative-qualitative work is planned

One quantitative draft paper on theme 1

Other RECOUP Theme 1 outputs Edited book: Gender, Education and Equality in a

Global Context (Arnot & Fennell, 2008) with 5 chapters by RECOUP members

Edited special journal issue: Gendered education and national development (Arnot & Fennell, Compare 38, 5, 2008) 3 articles by RECOUP members

Book: Degrees Without Freedom (Jeffrey, Jeffery & Jeffery, 2008)

Refereed journal article: ‘Disputing Contraception: Muslim Reform, Secular Change & Fertility, Modern Asian Studies, (Jeffery, Jeffery & Jeffrey, 2008).

Research capacity development PhD students:

Four funded RECOUP students; Two students linked to use RECOUP data; Four students in Cambridge associated to RECOUP

themes Qualitative Research Skills Manual launched as an

open web-based resource Building of qualitative social research capacity in

all partners. Development of capacity of Northern team

members in researching poverty in the South

Kenya Midterm Dissemination Workshop Health and Fertility

“Issues around the relationships between education and health and fertility outcomes for the poor,” Jeffery

Disability, Education and Poverty “Testing transitions: the lives of young people with

disabilities in Kenya,” Mugo & Singal. Youth, Gender and Citizenship

“Being young, Kenyan and gendered” Ruto, Ndiritu, & Arnot

“Conceptualising poverty and well-being in the context of education” Wawire, Wainaina, Chege, & Arnot

“Citizenship education and political engagement: voices of Kenyan youth” Chege, Wawire & Arnot

India Midterm Dissemination Workshop H&F

“Another Look into the Education-Fertility Black Box: Insights from qualitative and quantitative RECOUP research” by Clare Noronha, Roger Jeffery & ANO

DEPP “Education for better life: the undelivered

promise of education for people with disabilities” by Nidhi Singal & ANO.

Ghana Midterm Dissemination Workshop YGC

Youth Citizenship, National Unity and Poverty Alleviation: East and West African approaches, Arnot, Casely-Hayford, Chege, Dovie, and Wainaina,

Growing up modern in Ghana: Educational outcomes, social class and social transition, Casely-Hayford, Dovie, Sackey, and Arnot.

The making of a Ghanaian Citizen: the role of education among urban youth, Dovie, Casely-Hayford, Hettey, and Arnot.

The effects of education among rural youth in Northern Ghana: an intergenerational perspective, Salifu, Musah. and Iddrisu

Some of our plans for 2008-09 Reports on qualitative projects: e.g.

Ghana, YGC (Nov 2008) India, DEPP (Nov 2008) Pakistan, H&F (Nov 2008)

Analysis of household survey data on disability, its correlates and consequences, India and Pakistan

Publications linking Quantitative/Qualitative data Other Publications

Researching Education in the South (Edited book) Youth Gender and Citizenship in East & West Africa

(Edited book) ‘Doing Disability Research’ (Article)

UKFIET 2009 papers

Three Symposia Disability symposium – 14 invited papers RECOUP symposium: three papers

(a) Transitions to adulthood, (b) Health & Fertility in Pakistan, (c) Gender & Citizenship in Kenya

Symposium on Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging: young people's views of educational politics, policies and practices (open stream)

Lessons learned: 1 Qualitative projects are hard to keep to

planned 6-month periods Translation and transcription: dilemmas

here are more intransigent than we expected

Identification of sample takes longer than expected (people with disabilities, getting intergenerational interviews)

Writing time not built into the plan

Lessons learned: 2

Serious delays as a result of political conflict in Kenya and Pakistan (loss of community trust, sample, danger for researchers)

Electronic communications with Southern partners are hard to maintain, especially in Africa

Communities have shown ‘research fatigue’ related to lack of definite collective or individual rewards for taking part

High-points

Model structure of three interactive research training workshops (on data collection and transcribing, Atlas.ti, and data analysis and report writing) for each country team on Theme 1 projects as they rolled out

Photographic research very popular in Kenya, with IT training of youth and community members.

DEPP working paper to be included in the World Bank’s Disability Knowledge Kit, tentatively titled, Inter-Agency Disability Knowledge Base

Collaborative South-South authorship: Kenya and Ghana teams writing joint YGC working paper, matched design of journal articles, and prospect of joint authorship of a book

Helping to redefine the terms of debates Reconceptualising outcomes Reconceptualising methods Reconceptualising processes Representing the voices of young

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