Research culture and capacity building via doctoral training of staff members at College of Business Education, Tanzania

Research summary

According to our experience, most of the African Universities still focus on education, while research outputs are generally low. We have identified two main reasons for this. First, it is common that faculty members of higher education institutions are master degree holders. This means that faculty members usually lack research experience and they do not have basic knowledge and skill to conduct research. Secondly, those faculty members who have interest and skills to do research are often heavily loaded with teaching and administrative responsibilities. Thus, developing a research culture is an important direction for the future of African universities.

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The joint capacity building initiative between College of Business Education (CBE) and the edTeach group at School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland (UEF) aims to improve research culture and capacity of CBU and to strengthen the research, development and innovation environment for business informatics in Tanzania. Several faculty members of CBE pursue doctoral studies in the online IMPDET-LE programme at the School of Computing, UEF. The first doctoral student graduated in Fall 2018. At the same time, UEF and CBE work together in order to develop the overall research culture of CBE. We expect that these activities will, in the long run, improve the research contribution of the college.

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Research title
Research culture and capacity building via doctoral training of staff members at College of Business Education, Tanzania

Research timeline
1.3.2014 - 1.12.2019

Keywords
business informatics doctoral training ICT4D

Region
Africa

Countries
Finland

Institution
University of Eastern Finland
School of Computing
Joensuu, Finland

Funding instrument
Other

Project budget
0 - 200,000 euros

Head of research
Prof. Markku Tukiainen

Research team
Prof. Emanuel Mjema, Prof. Edda Tandi Lwoga, Prof. Markku Tukiainen, Prof. Matti Tedre, Dr. Jarkko Suhonen

Partners
University of Eastern Finland, College of Business Education

Contact information
Jarkko Suhonen
+358294453650
jarkko.suhonen@uef.fi
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Record last updated
25.3.2019