The Arkleton Trust

Date of Award

Recipient

Project

June ‘87

Mr Andrew Catley

To take part in a project undertaking work on tick-borne diseases in Zambia

June ‘88

Mr Minquan Liu

To travel to China to finish gathering data for his dissertation on work incentives under the commune and new responsibility system in china

June ‘89

Sharon Truelove

An assessment of the social and economic impact of the EEC’s Agricultural Development Programme in the Scottish Islands

June ‘90

Julia Aglionby

An assessment of different fishing techniques on the Isle of Kei Kecil, Indonesia

1991

Nicola Matthews

Work in Nepal (Original candidate in newsletter had become disqualified)

1992

Hanna Scrase

Timber production in Brazil

1993

Shona Wynd

Carry out field research into family planning methods in Nigeria

Sarah Pocknell

Rural development and social change in the Upper West region of Ghana

1994

Joanna Attridge

Undertake fieldwork on the concept of ‘guanxi’ or connections in relation to the importance of kinship networks for China’s future development

1995

Lorna Williams

Prepare a study programme and help in the transition towards a market economy in Romania (under the umbrella of Link Romania)

1996

Barnaby Hewitt

Designing a maternity / gynaecology extension in a small village hospital in Zaire

1997

Wendy Carter

Project as a primary health care nurse in Zapallal, Peru

Mark Grindley

Research to expand the limited knowledge of the conflicts within the Mount Elgon Park, between those that live there and those that visit.

1998

Julia Betts

How the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques in the planning and implementation of adult literacy projects affects women’s impetus for socio-economic development in the community. Based in El Salvador

Sebastion Taylor

Studying development aid agencies and how they work with aid beneficiaries in the developing world. Concentrating on the work of a UK charity (Mines Advisory Group), looking at its work with local village communities in the clearance of unexploded ordnance, as well as rural development, in South-East Asia, amongst the villages of Xieng Khouang Province, Laos

1999

Corinna Csaky

To investigate the often ‘unworkable’ rural home life which forces so many children in Ecuador onto the urban streets. She is also planning to study how the existing urban street children cope with this migration.

Benjamin Powis

To examine the obstacles that arise from including the poor and disenfranchised into the rural development discourse - as a result of India’s programme of decentralised planning.

Emma Wossknow

To look at the relationship between children’s education and labour in the Sindhuli district of Nepal.

2000

Alexanda Smith

To examine how the relationship between civil society and the institutions of an emergent Scottish ‘state’ is changing - focus on forestry

2001

Eric Févre

To map the distribution of sleeping sickness cases in Soroti to identify the most probable point source of the outbreak and to quantify the prevalence of infection in the cattle population

Ruth Marsden

To explore development agencies from the outside in: the fieldwork will take place in Nepal and she will try to find out how a rural community in Far Western Nepal view social change in their community.

Maria Denise Gropas

To study the processes by which EU development programmes are understood and implemented in Cuba

2002

Thomas Yarrow

To trace the manner in which information is relayed, extended, reduced, translated and modified as it flows through an international organisation and across rural policies. Initially visit Ghana

2003

Preeti Mann

Identity changes due to displacement: a case study of The Gonds in the Singrauli region of Central India.

2004

NONE

2005

Jennifer Fenn

To research the value placed upon education in rural areas and the direct effect it is thought to have upon those receiving the education and the secondary effects it has upon their families and the wider community. In Mityana and Kampala