David Moore Memorial Award

Applications for the 2001 Award covered a varied field of interests and the committee decided to make three awards. An award was made to Eric Févre who is studying for his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. As part of his PhD research Eric is mapping the distribution of sleeping sickness cases in Soroti, to identify the most probable point source of an outbreak; to quantify the prevalence of infection in the cattle population, using cattle markets as a means of having access to cattle from many points of the district.

Another award was made to Ruth Marsden who is studying for her MA in Social Anthropology with Development, also from Edinburgh. Ruth's research is to explore development agencies from the outside-in: her fieldwork will take her to Nepal where she hopes to find out how a rural community in Far Western Nepal view social change in their community.

The final award went to Maria-Denise Gropas who is studying for her PhD in Social Anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Maria-Denise is analysing critical evaluations of neo-colonialism and the export of Euro-centric values associated with development projects: she will be looking at the social relationships and political processes underpinning EU development strategies and projects in Cuba.