About The Project

This 4 week project is a new scheme developed by the Swansea-Gambia Link and Swansea University International Office and is part of the broader Wales for Africa Health Links Network. Ten post-graduate students from the Schools of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences and Arts and Humanities and Media Studies will travel to Gambia to carry out a research project looking at Health in the context of International development. The project aims to consider the inter-dependency between malnutrition and broader environmental and development issues. It will go towards helping the UN Millennium Development Goal paying particular attention to MDG 8 – A global Partnership for Development. The students will work together with students from Gambia University and Medical School to explore the immediate and broader factors that result in malnutrition. To do this they will utilise a case-study methodology, selecting one infant suffering from malnutrition and considering the social, cultural and environmental pathways that have led to the infant's illness.
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Pre-departure Research

Having decided to look specifically at malnutrition as a point of research for the project, Swansea University students have been working on pre-departure research looking into cases of malnutrition in Wales. As the departure date draws near, the team have been finalising their UK malnutrition findings and preparing presentations for the Gambia University students. The presentations outline the UK focus of the project and the kind of research they hope to carry out with the help of their Gambian partners over the four week project.
The preparation began with a series of discussions in which the students from the Schools of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences and Arts and Humanities researched and shared respectively on their areas of expertise, and presented the findings that they believe are suitable for the Swansea-Gambia Health Link pilot project this year. Since then the team have held further meetings, presenting their research on malnutrition, dietary illnesses and varying medical treatments and prevention approaches to malnutrition in both Wales and Gambia.
Upon arrival in The Gambia, the Gambian students will assist in allocating a malnutrition case study within the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital. This will enable interesting and innovative correlations to be made between the Gambia and Wales, regarding malnutrition and interrelated illnesses.
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