Brenda Boonabaana
PhD Candidate
email: brenda.boonabaana@otago.ac.nz
PhD Title
Community-Based Tourism Development and Gender in Southwestern Uganda
Supervisors
Dr Hazel Tucker and Dr Anna Thompson
Research Abstract
The proposed study aims at examining the impact of community-based tourism development on gender roles and relations in a rural village of Mukono in South western Uganda. The major objective of the study is to analyse how women involvement in activities of community-based tourism has influenced their traditional gender roles and relations. It is based on the philosophical thinking of phenomenology and intends to use an inductive qualitative research approach. Being a case study research, in-depth interviews, participant observation and document analysis will be used to collect data to help in the deeper understanding of women experiences in regard to community-based tourism development and their gender roles and relations. Women Participants will be chosen purposively while data analysis and presentation will be done using inductive qualitative techniques.
Education
August 2008: PhD candidate (Tourism), University of Otago, New Zealand
2001-2003: Master of Arts in Land use and Regional Development, MAK
1997-2000: BA Education - Geography major ( Second Class-Upper Div.), MAK
1995-1997: Uganda Advanced Certificate of education (UACE)
1991-1994: Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE)
Scholarships and Awards
Won a University of Otago postgraduate scholarship (2007); financially supporting my PhD studies in Tourism at the University of Otago
In 1997, I was selected for a Government scholarship under the Ministry of Education, Government of Uganda to undertake my undergraduate studies at Makerere University, Kampala
Teaching Experience
2004 – June 2008: Assistant Lecturer, Geography Dept, Faculty of Arts, Makerere University
Lecturing students in different Departmental Undergraduate Programmes of; Tourism, Environmental Management, Geography
2003 – 2004: Part-time Lecturer, Geography Dept, Uganda Christian University,
Bishop Barham College, Kabale
Lecturing undergraduate Geography papers
Hobbies:
Reading News Papers, Reading magazines about people of diverse cultures, Listening to Christian Music, Nature tours, Going to the beach.