RESEARCH DISSEMINATION WORKSHOP FOR IMPROVING LEARNING: DEVELOPING MEASURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND EVALUATING THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH STUDENTS’ GAINS IN ACHIEVEMENT IN NEPAL
A virtual workshop on Research Dissemination [for] Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal was held on September 2, 2021...
BOOK LAUNCH- ‘JEEBBIGYAN RA BATABARAN’
Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal (ISER-N) has successfully launched the most awaited book, ‘Jeebbigyan ra Batabaran’ (Eng. Translation ‘Biology and Environment’) on 12Baisakh, 2078 in a Book Launch event...
New publication: Hridaya Raj Devkota, Bishnu Bhandari, Pratik Adhikary (2021). Perceived mental health, wellbeing and associated factors among Nepali male migrant and non-migrant workers: A qualitative study.
Background Poor mental health and illness among the working population have serious socioeconomic and public health consequences for both the individual and society/country. With a dramatic increase in work migration...
New Publication: Ghimire, Dirgha, Yang Zhang, and Nathalie Williams. 2021. “Husbands’ migration: increased burden on or more autonomy for wives left behind?”
Migration of men has important influences on reshaping family and gender roles in left-behind wives. However, it is unclear whether husbands’ out-migration increases the burden on or creates autonomy for...
New Publication: Ghimire, Dirgha, William G. Axinn, and Prem Bhandari. 2021. “Social Change, Out-migration, and Exit from Farming in Nepal.”
Though international out-migration is widespread, little evidence exists regarding the consequences for economic change in sending countries, particularly in the densely populated agricultural areas of Asia. We examine associations between...
New Publication: Bio-mechanical risk factors for uterine prolapse among women living in the hills of west Nepal: A case-control study
Objective: To investigate whether heavy load carrying, wearing a patuka, and body position at work are risk factors for uterine prolapse among Nepali women. Methods: Community-based case-control study of 448...
New Publication: Arland Thornton, Dirgha Ghimire, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Prem Bhandari. 2019. “The Reliability and Stability of Measures about Individual’s Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal.”
This paper examines the reliability and stability of developmental idealism (DI) measures in Nepal. DI is a set of cultural schemas that contains beliefs and values favoring modern societies and...
New Publication: Nash, N., Capstick, S., Whitmarsh, L., Chaudhary, I. & Manandhar, R. (2019). “Perceptions of local environmental issues and the relevance of climate change in Nepal’s Terai: Perspectives from two communities”. Frontiers in Sociology: Medical Sociology
The direct and indirect impacts of global climate change entail serious consequences for global biophysical and social systems, including the health, well-being and sustainability of communities. These impacts are especially...
New Publication: “Household migration and children’s diet in Nepal: an exploratory study”
Introduction In recent years, the potential for agriculture to influence nutrition of infants and children in rural, low-income circumstances has received much attention [1]. The linkages between agriculture and nutrition...