The University of Lagos will benefit from the European Union five-year funded research grant to the tune of 2.2 million euro.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Registrar
Information, University of Lagos, Mr Toyin Adebule, and made available
to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
The grant, which is for a tripartite joint research project between the
Universities of Lagos, Sussex in the UK and the Kenyatta University in
Nairobi, is being funded by the European Research Council of the EU.
The project known as “The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880 -Present’’, will span five years.
“It has received funding from the European Research Council, an arm of the EU.
“Kenya has recently been awarded by the European Research Council of the
European Union for a new international cultural studies project,” it
said.
It said that the five-year tripartite research project among the
institutions would survey African urban life and generate data based on
attitudes to and perceptions of ‘dirt’ in the cities of Lagos and
Nairobi.
It said that the international multicultural research project was
seeking to understand and document how multiple and conflicting
definitions of ‘dirt’ activate attitudes.
The statement also added that it was also seeking to get perceptions of dirt among people of similar or different backgrounds.
It said that the University of Lagos, recently signed the consortium
agreement tagged , with the University of Sussex in the UK and Kenyatta
University in Kenya.
According to the statement, DIRTPOL is an interdisciplinary study of
contemporary attitudes to dirt which is expected to among other things,
inform public health policy and practice in Africa.
It said that it would also to support NGOs with data to drive their
field activities and significantly interface the humanities with the
social and physical sciences.
The statement said that this was made possible by generating data that
would be useful across disciplines to various scholars interested in
cultural and environmental issues.
The statement said that the University of Lagos team is headed by a
Regional Coordinator (RC), Dr Patrick Oloko, a Senior Lecturer in
the
Department of English.
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