Professor Julius Omona is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda. Through International and local grants, he has extensively researched and published in the areas of civil society, post-conflict vulnerability and gender. His specialty is social policy analysis where he has been teaching course units at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He has also supervised dissertations and theses on numerous topics linked to social policies and gender. Most research he has been engaged in involves methodological components dealing with policy analysis. The outputs of his research have been in the form of reports, journal articles, and policy briefs. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Social Administration from Makerere University in 1987, a master’s degree in Development Studies (Public Policy and Management) from the Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands (1999) and a doctorate in Public Policy and Management from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, in 2004. [email protected]
