Professor Nicola Ansell
Professor - Human Geography

Research area(s)

Social and cultural change in the lives of young people in the Global South (particularly in southern Africa); politics and impacts of global policy agendas (particularly in the areas of education, children’s rights and social protection); geographies of youth and childhood; scalar politics; participatory research.

Grants

Project details

• Equipping Lesotho's primary school teachers for educating and motivating rural children (ESRC-DFID £45,199) with Paramente Phamotse, Edith Sebatane and Julia Chere
• Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings (ESRC-DFID £595,101) with Peggy Froerer, Roy Huijsmans and Ian Rivers
• Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi (ESRC-DFID £299,870, 2015-8) with Lorraine van Blerk, Elsbeth Robson, Flora Hajdu, Evance Mwathunga and Thandie Hlabana
• Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people  (DFID-ESRC: £201,757, 2007-8) with Elsbeth Robson and Lorraine van Blerk
• Global-local dialogue in responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Lesotho's education sector: meeting vulnerable children's needs? (RGS: £2,000, 2003)
• Young AIDS migrants in southern Africa: dissemination (DFID: £6,404, 2002) with Lorraine Young
• Young AIDS migrants in southern Africa  (DFID: £48,604, 2000)