Centre for Basic Research started a rigorous and dynamic Training Programme leading to the award of a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods and Writing Skills. The programme is significantly strengthened by staff’s research interests and skills, which form the backbone of the programme. The graduate student will become familiar with research methods used by professional and academic researchers. Individual students are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning. In this way students will build confidence in learning, as well as gain knowledge and skills in preparation for study at higher levels and/or taking up very challenging assignments in the work place.

A core value of the programme is to provide the opportunity to develop a high level of individual research skills but follow particular strands of research - for example gender research. At the same time, the participant will be exposed to other disciplines, consistent with the Centre’s research areas that seek to achieve five key research objectives namely:

• Research on issues of basic social significance
• Document materials on these issues
• Publish research results
• Organize training for interested groups, and
• Liaise with institutions with which CBR broadly shares similar objectives.

• Introduction to Research
• Proposal Writing (Both research and project proposals)
• Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods
• Data Management and Analysis
• Budgeting and Reporting
• Report Writing

ALTITUDE AND ATTITUDE: THE SPREAD OF KHAT (MAIRUNGI) IN UGANDA.

A seminar presentation at CBR, 8th April, 2010, by Susan Beckerleg*

Eighty years ago in Uganda, migrant Somalis and Yemenis started to harvest wild khat and to teach farmers to cultivate the plant that is chewed for its stimulant qualities. As khat chewing has become a popular Ugandan pastime, it is seen as a threat to law and order. Traders and consumers are harassed by the police, and one district authority has banned khat. New production areas, such as Uganda, share many common features with established khat production in Ethiopia and Kenya. African khat producers operate an unregulated industry untouched by multi-national companies. Khat production is indigenous development that provides prosperity without donor assistance.

CBR holds weekly seminars at its premises where various scholars and researchers present their initial proposals,field and/or desk research findings for peer reviewing. Whereas CBR supports these presentations the contents thereof are solely views of the presenters.
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