Academic Profile

Teaching & CV

Courses, certifications, honours, and professional service.

Courses

CEDAT, Makerere University (2013-2017)

TEC 2101

Sociology for Technology

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

TEC 1201

Introduction to Sociology

Electrical and Computer Engineering

CIV 3101

Organisational Theory

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sociology & Social Anthropology (2009-2012)

SOC 2100

Social Research Methods I

Sociology

SOC 2201

Social Research Methods II: Ethnographic Theory and Methods

Sociology

SOC 3103

Social Inequality and Mobility

Sociology

CARTA Facilitation

Since 2023, Dr. Kagaha serves as a CARTA Facilitator for the Joint Advanced Seminar (JAS 1 & 3), teaching PhD students ontological and epistemological foundations of research, research methodology, and qualitative data analysis writing at Makerere University School of Public Health.

Education

Academic Qualifications

2021

PhD, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

2008

MA Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Makerere University, Kampala

2007

MSc Development Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

2003

BA Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala

1998

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE), Jinja Senior Secondary School

1996

Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), Budini Senior Secondary School, Kamuli

Training

Certifications

2019

Scientific Writing and Publishing, African Population and Health Research Centre, Kenya

2018

Advanced Research Methodology, APHRC, Kenya

2017

CARTA Joint Advanced Seminar II - Research Methods in Public and Population Health

2017

Philosophy of Methods, Makerere University

2017

Advanced Research Methods, Makerere University

2007

Methods and Challenges in Qualitative Gender Research, Makerere University

2004

Program Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation, IRC, Kampala

2003

Training of Trainers in Gender, Policy Analysis and Advocacy, IRC, Kampala

Recognition

Honours & Awards

2017

4-year PhD fellowship, Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)

2018

2-year Advanced Doctoral Dissertation and Research Fellowship (ADDRF)

2009

Qualitative Research Fellowship, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)

2005

NOMA Scholarship, MSc Development Management, University of Agder, Norway

1999

Government Scholarship, BA Social Sciences, Makerere University

Service

Committees & Reviews

Committee Membership

Technical team member - COVID-19 Social Science and Policy Response Committee (CARTA), Science Policy Engagement Work on COVID-19 in Africa, African Academy of Sciences / ARIN (2021).

Manuscript Reviews

  • Social Science & Medicine - "Medicalisation and manhood..." (June 2021)
  • Social Science & Medicine - "When abortion becomes public..." (October 2020)
  • Social Science & Medicine - "Cardiac Remodelling of Social Relations..." (December 2019)