| Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |
| Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique |
| Conselho para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais em África |
| مجلس تنمية البحوث الإجتماعية في أفريقيا |
Deadline : 30 November 2014 DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy University of South Africa The DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy invites applications into its Postdoctoral Research Fellowship programme. Successful candidates will join an exciting research team working on the theme of “Rethinking Social Policy : in search of inclusive...
DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy University of South Africa The DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy invites applications into its 2015 Master’s and Doctoral Degrees Programme. Successful candidates will join an exciting research team working on the theme of “Rethinking Social Policy : in search of inclusive development”. The research...
Organised by CROP, SANORD, UiB Global (UiB) and School of Government (UWC) Cape Town, February 9-11, 2015 Call for papers The ‘developmental state’ generally refers to the model many of the East Asian and Latin American nations pursued after the Second World War to rapidly modernise their economies, ensure economic growth and promote structural...
CLOSING DAY FOR SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES IS 31st of August 2014 The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), in cooperation with Zed Books, requests entries for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014. We seek original, high-quality, alternative and critical academic manuscripts. Works challenging the dominant thinking and...
Theme : Social Media – from the margins to the mainstream Dates : 7-8 September 2014 Venue : Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Social Media – from the margins to the mainstream The birth of social media promised much in terms of a new dawn of democratisation of communication. There were expectations about the way social media would...
Calling for experts based in South Africa in the fields of Gender and/or Socio-cultural and/or Global change With the aim of identifying innovative approaches to mainstreaming gender and socio-cultural inclusion within global change research, this project aims to bring together academics from different disciplines, primarily those who have expertise...
Deadline Extended : 30 June 2014, Midnight GMT+1 (Paris Time) 2014. The ISSC is proud to announce a call for applications for World Social Science Fellows. Talented early career social and other scientists are encouraged to apply to participate in a seminar in Taiwan from 2 to 8 November 2014, on “Sustainable Urbanization — Transformations to...
Deadline : November 30, 2014 April 3-5, 2015 Austin, Texas Development, which has always been intertwined with human rights, is increasingly linked to the fate of urban spaces and urban livelihoods. Questions about poverty, economic growth, quality of life, social inequality, human rights and citizenship are framed through the lens of urban planning...
Deadline : 13 June 2014 The Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, together with the South African Institute for International Affairs, leading foreign policy research institute on the African continent, invites government officials, academics, researchers and officials from relevant civil society...
Deadline : Applications must be in by 1 April 2014 at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden For information, including directions for application and application form, please visit : www.nai.uu.se/scholarships/african/ Inquiries : inga ?britt.faris@nai.uu.se