South Africa: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Data Lifecycle

Professor Catherine Ward of UCT's Department of Psychology is working on the South African piece of an eight-country longitudinal birth-cohort study led by Cambridge University which seeks to understand violence against children. UCT eResearch worked with Ward to help her anticipate and resolve the many research data problems that are likely to crop up during the course of the study.

End all forms of violence against children - so states the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16.2. In order to achieve this critical goal, policy-makers need to understand the complex factors at play. This is the objective of the eight-country birth cohort study coordinated by a team at Cambridge with research collaborators across the globe. The goal of this study is to track a total of 12 000 pregnant women in eight low-income countries (see map of global distribution) through their pregnancies and into the adulthood of the children in the birth cohort themselves.

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