Escape
Come, join me
Entebbe evenings
Sunset at the Guinea Fowl guest house, Entebbe. Accompanied by an orchestra of evening bugs, dinner guests eating al fresco, motorbikes (boda bodas) scurrying along dirt tracks. And Casper (the dog) shuffling around in the bushes.
Entebbe mornings
No better way to wake up than to birds causing havoc, a cup of coffee and the sun beating down at the Guinea Fowl, Entebbe.
Masaka evenings
Atop Golf Lane hill, looking out at Liberation square, the faint sound of people drinking, laughing and eating behind me.
I Lift Uganda: Episode #1, Sheila Gabeya
An interview with Sheila, sharing how HIV affected her and her family, what it's like to work in the HIV and family planning space as a young, single, woman, and how she is using music to transcend stigma and educate the youth about HIV
I Lift Uganda: Benedicta, Kinawataka Initiatives
“I started my business weaving discarded straws into products like mats and bags to survive. Then I got recognised and now I am travelling the world, people are so amused with my product, they want me to speak about it. With my money I have taken over 30 children through school now. I want my business to grow so I can keep helping my community, especially the young girls. People know me as the woman in Kinawataka who helps the needy. People now come and line up at my door. And I never turn anyone away.”
*live west nile mix_arua mornings
Tanzania - Jos &Eli
Area - Innellea
Amene -Andhim
Marimbo - Daniel Rateuke
Celubaba - Ivory (IT)
Mirach - Ranico & Lez*live nile mix_jinja evenings
I'd like to think of this as my home-away-from-home.
No, no. Keep your shoes on. Honestly it's fine, we have wooden floors.
I put this website together so I had somewhere to deposit my thoughts and reflections, as I embark on my field research in Uganda.
However, I want it to be more than a depository of incoherent academic verbiage.
(It will be this too)
In addition to blogging my reflections, I am collecting the images, videos and sounds of my data-collection journey - And sharing those with you.
I hope they paint a vivid sensory picture, that can be accessed by anyone.
No matter their language, occupation or age.
Keep your eye out for health and fitness and food-themed blogs too!
Oli otya 🙏🏽
Experience
"There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it."
- Louis Pasteur
Doctoral Researcher
Aston Business School
Researching the lived experiences of female entrepreneurs in Uganda
Researcher
Uganda's Women's Network
Studying this rich and dynamic network of female entrepreneurs.
Programme Designer & Evaluator
NextGen: Enterprise Nation
Nurturing young enterprising people launch their first business!
Facilitator & Evaluator
ATHENA
Developing Women Leaders
Transforming women in their roles as leaders in health & social care.
MSc Org Psychology
City University, London
Distinction
Chair
The Uganda Foundation
A social movement:
To inspire giving and empower change in Uganda.
Lead Researcher
Circle Women
Voicing the successes, challenges and strategies of Global women leaders
Facilitator & Evaluator
MAWoSi
Partnering to design, deliver & evaluate a women's leadership programme in Uganda.
Charity Director
The Uganda Marathon
Straddling the boundaries of
The Uganda Foundation, Masaka Marathon and Uganda Marathon.
Research Manager
Leadership and OD
Facilitating learning, capturing knowledge and showcasing the impact of our work in supporting leaders of health and social care.
Facilitator & Evaluator
AIDER
Empowering young Peruvian women to take up leadership in conservation of Amazon rainforest.
Leadership Consultant
ACTV
Creating a training and development strategy for ACTV employees, Peru.
Research Associate
Research, Innovation and Product Development
Data-driven innovation and product development; Growing and developing Global Leaders.
Research Assistant
University College London
Funded by the British Psychology Society to evaluate the long-term outcomes of children with neurodisability.
Assistant Psychologist
Neurodisability Unit
Throwing plastic balls, colouring in and hiding in the lift.
Other, serious, clinical stuff but ...those are my most treasured memories.
Research Assistant
University of Cambridge
Reality monitoring and how it relates to patients with schizophrenia.
BSc Psychology
University of Surrey
2009-2013 (1st class)
Projects
On a path of exploration, not discovery
Evaluating women's leadership development programmes
Why The King's Fund's Athena, is different.
2018
Social identities of black women leaders in nursing
Why "The Glass Slipper" won't fit
2017
Women's leadership development, Uganda
Leading beyond (all kinds of!) boundaries
2016
Increasing women in conservation leadership, Peru
Sometimes inspiration takes engineering
2014
Gendered language in the workplace, USA
Don't ban 'Bossy' - own it.
2013
Work-life balance for mothers caring for children with ASD
How do you juggle wife, mother, carer, employee
...when you only have two hands?
2012
