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  • Annual PhD Conference 2026
    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026)

    Published August 2026 38 items

    Proceedings of the Annual PhD Conference 2026, hosted by Nkumba University in partnership with the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), under the theme “Advancing Knowledge, Transforming Society: PhD Research for Sustainable Development”. The book contains the conference programme, welcome addresses and extended abstracts of doctoral research in education, governance, business and finance, health, agriculture and community development across Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.

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  • Nkumba International Research Conference 2026
    Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026)

    Published June 2026 25 items

    Proceedings of the Nkumba International Research Conference 2026, organised by the Directorate of Postgraduate Studies and Research, Nkumba University, in partnership with Ndejje University, under the theme “Catalysing Research Knowledge & Innovation in Realizing SDGs”. The proceedings bring together welcome addresses and extended abstracts on renewable energy, waste management and design, agriculture and food security, health services, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, e-government, finance and governance, and culture and heritage in Uganda and the region.

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  • Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023)

    Published May 2023 5 items

    An issue focused on healthy human lives. It includes studies of home child delivery and of mothers discontinuing antenatal care visits in Musanze Sector, Rwanda; research on how long it takes to manage child malnutrition using cow milk; and an essay on the social stigma that met the emergence of COVID-19 in Uganda.

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  • Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)

    Published May 2022 6 items

    A multidisciplinary issue spanning psychometrics and structural equation modelling in Uganda's universities, the independence of the Director of Public Prosecutions, parliamentary oversight of the security sector, the role of NGOs in food security in Pibor County, South Sudan, and spending on tobacco among adult Ugandans.

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  • Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)

    Published December 2021 3 items

    Two studies of people and place: the role of Uganda's Environmental Protection Police Unit in protecting wetlands around Kajjansi, and the social benefits of religious camps along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway in Nigeria.

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  • Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021)

    Published July 2021 6 items

    The launch issue of NIRJ. It opens with an essay on nature's challenges to conflict resolution and peace, and includes research on district security committees and the oversight of private security organisations in Wakiso and Kampala, community responses to the health risks of climate change in Kawaala, social solidarity in economic development, and collective security diplomacy in Africa's Great Lakes Region.

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