Research and Community Service VP

The University has established different research facilities including two Research centers: 1)Tulu korma and Bilo research center  and 2) Laureate Tsegaye G/Medihin research and cultural center for conducting agriculture related researches in the former research center and for language, culture and art related researches in the later. In addition two research center were also established for conducting researches in the area of human and animal health related and environmental researches. For community service delivery, the University has also established 5 free legal service centers organized under the free legal service directorate and serving thousands of the needy people in the community. The thematic areas for research are Food Security and Livelihood, Heath and Health deliverability, Environment and Climate Change, Relevance and Quality of Education, Social Justice and Democracy, Institutional Innovations and Management, Appropriate Technology adaptation and transfer, Bridging Science for Research and Development.

Research thematic areas are agriculture, animal health and natural resource management; environment, climate change and development; public-human health and biomedical sciences; natural and computational Sciences, Engineering, technology, energy and ICT; social sciences, education and laws; cross-cutting issues like food security, HIV/AIDS, gender, disabilities, population, unemployment and indigenous knowledge.

Research outputs are disseminated to the users by different methods including research conferences held at University level and at colleges/Institutes/school level, via workshops, publication on peer reviewed journals, symposiums and stakeholder meetings which is held at the end of each academic year. We use the stakeholder meeting not only for disseminating the research outputs, but also for identifying and prioritizing the real community problems that we work on during the next academic year or in the future.

Ambo University has been and still now working with various national and international governmental as well as non-governmental organizations in the area of student exchange, joint researches and developmental community service activities. Most of the externally funded research community service projects are coordinated centrally by research and community service vice president office.