{"id":20227,"date":"2025-03-11T13:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=20227"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:13","slug":"cati-coe-awarded-sshrc-funded-open-research-area-8-ora-8-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2025\/cati-coe-awarded-sshrc-funded-open-research-area-8-ora-8-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Cati Coe awarded SSHRC funded Open Research Area 8 (ORA 8) Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cati Coe awarded SSHRC funded Open Research Area 8 (ORA 8) Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"form-header-group header-default\">\n<div class=\"header-text httal htvam\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"header-text httal htvam\">\n<p>Cati Coe has been awarded a major research award as a member of a multinational team of researchers under Open Research Area 8 (ORA 8) initiative coordinated by SSHRC in collaboration with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK).<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20228 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Cati-Coe-6833_news-240x184.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Cati-Coe-6833_news-240x184.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Cati-Coe-6833_news-160x123.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Cati-Coe-6833_news-200x153.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Cati-Coe-6833_news.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<p>The project,&nbsp;<em>Pathways for Vocational Training and Informal Learning in West Africa<\/em>, will explore the value attributed to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in West Africa, with a particular focus on the continued dominance of traditional apprenticeships in the region, despite reforms since the 1990s aimed at formalising vocational education. The study will follow young people across socio-economic backgrounds in small cities in Benin, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, and Ghana to understand how young women and men acquire technical skills in both formal and informal settings. With a youth-centred and feminist relational approach, the research will be collaborative, involving nine researchers and twelve youths who will actively contribute to content creation about their experiences with TVET. Along with Dr Akosua Keseboa Darkwah (University of Ghana), Cati will be leading the research on TVET in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>More about Professor Coe:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/our-research\/research-centres-and-initiatives\/\">Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/our-research\/research-grants-and-awards\/\">Other Research Awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/cati-coe\/\">bio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cati Coe has been awarded a major research award as a member of a multinational team of researchers under Open Research Area 8 (ORA 8) initiative coordinated by SSHRC in collaboration with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK). 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