News bulletins

Also read about a new publications and recent events, including an international conference on social responses to climate change in unequal societies that ACEIR co-hosted as part of the TSITICA project with the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate and Development. Read more

Also read about a new project on the consequences of educational expansion in Ghana; facilitating an early career workshop on using panel data for poverty and inequality analyses; and two new additions to the ACEIR working papers series. Read more

You can also read about our presentation on climate vulnerability studies at the global Science Summit 2023 during the UNGA79; the South Africa node’s session at the South African Economics Society; a new ACEIR working paper and other new publications by ACEIR researchers. Read more

We invite readers to save the date for the inaugural conference on inequality, work, and nature – a collaboration between the South African Presidency, the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities, and ACEIR's hub at the University of Cape Town. Read more

And, the third in a series of reflections on our growing partnerships and collaborations focuses on the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) as ACEIR researchers contribute to a forthcoming AFD–World Bank book on inequality in Africa; and with new inequality diagnostics underway. Read more

The last news bulletin of 2022 brings our readers the second in a series of reflections on valued partnerships and how we are strengthening these as ACEIR’s research strategy for the next five years is finalised. We focus on the LSE and in particular a new research collaboration with the School's International Inequalities Institute that will commence in 2023. Read more

We focus on a series of capacity building workshops recently hosted for and by members of our teams. These would not have been possible without the collaboration of key ACEIR partners – DataFirst; the Bristol Poverty Institute, University of Bristol; and the Agence Française de Développement. Given the importance of such partnerships, we bring you the first in a series of reflections on these valued relationships and how we hope to strengthen them as ACEIR moves towards consolidating its research programme after a successful start-up phase. In this bulletin we focus on the University of Bristol and, by extension, the Bristol Poverty Institute under the leadership of Prof David Gordon. Read more

We are pleased to share with you a bumper edition of news about our work and those of our researchers located in different African countries. Split in two parts, the newsletter bears evidence that 2022 has been a very busy year so far for those in our teams, and we hope you can join us in celebrating our collective and the individuals' achievements captured here. Read more

Part 2 of our bumper mid-year newsletter. Read more

As we approach the end of the year, the ACEIR team is reflecting with gratitude and a good sense of satisfaction on our work and achievements in 2021. First, we are thankful that our teams in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa have remained free from fatalities due to the coronavirus outbreak that continues to ravage populations around the globe. Second, we celebrate the Centre’s milestones reached this year and share news of a flurry of activities in the months of November and December. Read more

As we enter the last quarter of 2021, the news in this bulletin point to several exciting developments for ACEIR. First, that our work and engagements with research, government, and other partners are beginning to return to a form of “normal” following the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, a growing recognition of the value and contributions of the Centre, its researchers and network towards tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges: unsustainable inequalities, which are now worsened by an observed increase in extreme poverty and a slowdown in economic growth globally, but especially in Africa. Lastly, this news bulletin tells of the ongoing expansion of the ACEIR team and different ways in which our researchers and their work are getting recognised. Read more

This month marked ACEIR’s third year since it was established as one of the centres of excellence of the African Research Universities Alliance aimed at improving the quality and quantity of African research and enhancing the voice of Africans in global debates. This news bulletin reflects the strides that ACEIR is making in advancing this goal. Read more

In spite of the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic across the globe in 2020, our team remained committed and worked hard to complete an impressive range of research outputs. Read more

In this bulletin, we report the start of a critical component of ACEIR’s work: data scholarship capacity building in partnership with DataFirst, Africa’s only data platform that is internationally certified as a trusted repository. In this quarter of 2020, the findings from South Africa’s first comprehensive report on inequality was taken further for discussion with stakeholders from different sectors. A series of forthcoming ACEIR working papers on inequalities in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa are also announced. Read more

2019 was a busy year for the ACEIR team as some of the work started in 2018 came to fruition. This bulletin reflects on some of the highlights, including the release of ACEIR’s first report on inequality trends for each node country – in this case, for South Africa – as well as a seminar series on the Sustainable Development Goals hosted by the South African node in partnership with UCT’s Poverty & Inequality Initiative. Read more

In 2018, the country nodes – Ghana, Kenya and South Africa – and affiliate scholars in Côte d’Ivoire embarked on textured analyses of inequality in their respective countries. To build capacity for this undertaking, a Handbook on Inequality Measurement for Country Studies was developed by researchers at the University of Cape Town, where ACEIR’s hub and the South African node are located. Read more

The first ACEIR newsletter introduces the centre’s hub-and-spoke model and explains plans to support ACEIR partners and its network with data capacity development, including creating their own data hubs.  In another development, ACEIR is one of the 13 ARUA Centres who were invited to submit multi-million pound funding proposals to support capacity building and partnerships as part of ARUA’s partnership with the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Read more