Denise Ferris
Denise is a Research Fellow at BRAC Uganda, focused on BRAC’s Independent Evaluation and Research Cell, supporting integrating participatory approaches into evaluation and research to facilitate engagement from beneficiaries. Having worked in East Africa for the past 5 years, her experiences include supporting an RCT addressing the intra-household effects of the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship for academically talented but economically disadvantaged secondary students in Uganda. Most recently she collaborated with the Qatar Foundation, co-authoring a paper addressing the underlying factors associated with failure of students to transition or dropout of secondary school in Uganda and Bangladesh.
