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The Association of Commonwealth Universities | ACU
Gender grantees 2020-2021

Meet our grantees and discover more about their projects below.

Each year our gender grantees organise a wide range of initiatives, workshops and events promoting gender equity and equality in their institutions. Now in its fourth year, this latest round of grants will support projects in nine different countries across the Commonwealth. Meet this year's grantees and discover more about their project plans below. 

Meet our grantees


Dr Asha Achuthan

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

Dr Lee Airton

Queen's University, Canada

Dr Abena Boakye

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana

Dr Ikechukwu Erojikwe

The University of Nigeria

Dr Lakshika Liyanage

General Sir John Kotalawala Defence University (KDU), Sri Lanka

Dr Rachel Moss, Dr Sonya Andermahr and Dr Phillippa Bennett

University of Northampton, UK

Dr Muganda Munir Manini

Kibabii University, Kenya 

Dr. Bushra Naeem

Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Pakistan

Professor Chinyere Stella Okunna

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria 

Ms Kelly Parsons

Murdoch University, Australia