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.
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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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