Lars Arne Jensen, the Programme Manager Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) in charge of East Africa, has challenged Gulu University to ensure that all activities and programmes that have been supported by DANIDA through the BSU project–from the first to the third phase–are kept running as the project prepares to enter into the fourth phase.

BSU researchers have found power in sitting and writing together. But some of their future projects will require consideration of the psychological effects some research areas can have on researchers.

When on September 29, 2022, a Danish delegation entered the office of Prof. George Openjuru Ladaah, the Gulu University Vice Chancellor (VC),  it was strictly business, as the host and his guests got down to discuss arguably the most transformative project of the university in a decade.

A total of 41 abstract submissions was on October 14, 2022, vetted for the BSU Conference slated for November 24-25, 2022. More to follow on this story.  

BSU has officially launched her CONSCOV project which aims to establish the impact of Covid-19 on the reproductive health of the youth in northern Uganda.

The first and second cohorts of MA History students at Gulu University on September 30, 2022, held a seminar, the first of a series, during which individuals presented their research and received comments and questions from their colleagues, a supervisor, and other interested participants.

Eighteen students of Gulu University have today been confirmed beneficiaries of UPCHAIN grants during the opening session of a three-day workshop on concept note and proposal writing held at the university’s new library.

Dr. Agatha Alidri, the BSU Coordinator, has been awarded a Carnegie Post-doctoral fellowship development grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York through Makerere University’s Consolidating Early Career Academic Programme (CECAP) 2022-2024.