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Prof Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo

Vice-President for Policy Review
and Administration

The Board

Title: Professor

Professor of Women and Gender Studies with over 30 years of research and teaching experience.

Leadership: Served as the Head of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Head of Grants Management Unit at Makerere University, Member of the Taskforce Management Committees for establishing Bunyoro University, serving as the DVCAA designate for Bunyoro University, President/Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences 2023 to date. I have co-Chaired three Consensus studies.

Service: Member of the Advisory Board of the Makerere University Rotary Peace Centre, Vice Chancellors' Standing Committee of 100 eminent persons on sexual harassment.  Passport Rotary Club, Makerere; Fellow: International Women’s Forum and Leadership Foundation.

Research. Principal Investigator (PI) on the “Whole University Approach: Kicking Sexual Harassment out of Higher Education Institutions in Uganda” 2021/24, PI “From Promises to Actions: Shifting Gender Norms and Public Perceptions about Unpaid Care Work in Families in Uganda IDRC 2022/24. Publication 2025 Suffering in Silence: Narratives of Sexual Violence among Adolescent Mothers in Uganda, published in Girlhood Studied, Canada
Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships: Gender Award by the Gender mainstreaming Programme Makerere University (Female Professor), .2010; Winner of the Aidoo-Schneider Book 2007 Prize: Women’s Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda (1900-2003), Ohio University Press.

 

  • Social Anthropologist / Gender

  • Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS)