The 23 research projects
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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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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
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
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
Voices of connection: capturing relational wellbeing to improve youth mental health through multimodal communication and network analyses
The researchers will conduct in-depth interviews and role-play scenarios to explore relational wellbeing, focusing on decision-making in health (e.g. family planning), financial management and domestic roles.
Mental health
Youth-well: a study to develop and validate a relational wellbeing tool for youth in Ghana, using participatory methods
The study will conduct a comprehensive scoping review of RWB studies among young people in the Global South to inform RWB measure development.
Mental health
Social network analysis and participatory action research with young people on the move (YPOM)
This research explores how personal, structural, and environmental dimensions of wellbeing interact to shape relational wellbeing for young people on the move.
Mental health
Resilient roots: cultivating relational wellbeing in Romanian youth through trans-sectoral and community-engaged research
By merging traditional mental health research with cultural-historical exploration, this project has the potential to achieve a model for understanding and promoting RWB in contexts shaped by rapid societal transition.
Mental health
The climate change-mental health nexus
This research initiative aims to comprehensively examine the link between climate change and mental health, and specifically climate change-related anxiety, among young populations in Indonesia, Tanzania and Ghana
Climate change, Mental health