The 23 research projects
Research
The u’GOOD research programme funds 23 projects in nine countries in the Global South focusing on the thematic areas of young people and livelihoods, climate change, digitalisation and mental health.
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Spatial-temporal modelling of localised relational impacts on youth livelihoods under the changing climate in informal peri-urban settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This research project aims to develop strategies that enhance youth resilience in the face of growing climate vulnerabilities in Tanzania
Livelihoods
Investigating the nexus of relational wellbeing, digital ICT capabilities and mental health resilience among adolescents, youth and young adults in urban and peri-urban areas in Tanzania (TEVUAfya)
The project aims to address mental health challenges among urban youth in Tanzania, gain an understanding of the factors that affect them, and employ a relational approach using digital technologies.
Digitalisation
How social media use promotes relational wellbeing in the Global South
How do young people in the Global South experience and make sense of their social media use? How does social media use relate to their relational wellbeing?
Digitalisation
A socio-spatial approach to youth’s relational wellbeing
This research will examine how spaces are socially structured and experienced according to sumak kawsay principles, investigating whether young people feel integrated into their communities.
Mental health
Urban commoning as real utopias: Advancing relational wellbeing among Southern youth in Bogota, Cape Town and Delhi
This project is based on the starting point that realising relational wellbeing requires a move away from dominant economic systems defined by self-interest, competition, environmental destruction and exploitation.
Mental health
Reasons to live: relational wellbeing and the prevention of suicidal ideation and attempts among youth in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania
The goal of this project is to generate evidence on suicidality and the main “reasons to live” among youth in peri-urban areas of South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana.
Livelihoods
Youth-STRONG: Socio-technical responses to online neglect and global youth economic exploitation
This project aims to protect and enhance the wellbeing of young people in the Global South by addressing the growing threat of digital predation.
Digitalisation
PicPecc4Wellbeing: relational wellbeing of young people with disabilities through digitalisation
This study explores how the relational wellbeing of young people with disabilities in the Global South can be supported to adapt the PicPecc mobile health tool.
Mental health
Historical trauma and repair: fostering transgenerational wellbeing
This project aims to shift the focus from transgenerational cycles of historical trauma, to go beyond theoretical debate and ask rarely explored questions on how these generational cycles can be disrupted by creating opportunities for relational wellbeing in a way that will foster transgenerational wellbeing.
Livelihoods
Harnessing digital platforms for enhancing youth wellbeing: revolutionising data collection on livelihoods and digitalisation
This project explores how adaptive, digital and participatory methods can help bridge the gap between conventional data collection methods and the lived experiences of young people in the digital age.
Livelihoods
Cultivating resilience: a culturally grounded intervention to address climate change-related mental health challenges
This project aims to assess and compare the levels of awareness and self-advocacy among youth regarding climate change, and its impact on their mental wellbeing, across the three countries.
Climate change
Redefining relational wellbeing to bolster resilience and collective action in climate change in Indonesian youth
This research is expected to shed light on the interconnectedness between climate change and the relational wellbeing of young people, especially in the Global South.
Climate change