Participants

A community involved all around Africa

The African Research Network is made possible by over 100 participants who contribute to improve our understanding of a wide array of disciplines on the African continent through a their work in and study of a diversity of African contexts.

Find details of our members on our focus area pages

Directors

The Africa Research Network is led by two directors, who together work to promote collaboration and conversation at York and with our partner universities and institutions. We have a unique structure, with directors based at York and at one of our partner institutions on the continent.

Professor Robert Marchant

Rob's main interest is researching processes of environmental change and how these are registered by tropical vegetation, how this may respond in a future of uncertain change and how we can use such information to guide appropriate policy development. His research covers the fields of biogeography, ecology, palaeoecology and ecosystem modelling. Combining these disciplines I develop an understanding, at an ecologically sensible timeframe, of the events that have shaped the past, present and future composition and distribution of tropical ecosystems.

Cathy Ikiror Mbidde

Cathy Ikiror Mbidde currently works at the Department of Marketing & Management, Makerere University. Cathy does research in Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Micro and Small Business growth. The current project is 'Female entrepreneurship in Uganda'.