Announcements - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

Announcements

CODESRIA offers many opportunities ranging from conferences, training workshops, research activities, job vacancies, etc. which are advertised below

CODESRIA African Academic Diaspora Support to African Universities Program: Call for African Academic Diaspora visiting Fellowships in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Higher Education Studies to African Universities.

Period of Visiting Professorship: June-December 2020 Application Deadline: 10th March 2020. The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites joint proposals from African academics in the Diaspora and in universities in Africa for visiting fellowships to African universities. This call targets African scholars in...

Call for Applications to Produce State-of-the-Art Reviews: Project on Women, Girls, and Civic Engagement in Africa

Application deadline: December 20, 2019 Established in 1973, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) seeks to promote the voices of African and Diaspora scholars in the social sciences and humanities on the most important questions concerning Africa and its place in the world. This effort is motivated by the...

The Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2020 - The Nordic Africa Institute

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2020 The Claude Ake Visiting Chair The Claude Ake Visiting Chair was set up in 2003 at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (DPCR), in collaboration with the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and with funding from the Swedish Government and Uppsala University. The Chair honors the...

Europe needs to make mind up on relations with Africa By Carlos Lopes

As a new European Commission now takes over, there are some nuanced messages concerning the relations with Africa emerging from the statements of president Ursula Von der Leyen. She prioritises the development of a "comprehensive strategy for Africa". The idea is not new. In October 2005 the European Commission published such a strategy. Its stated...

Call for Applications: BIGSAS-PhD-Scholarships for Women from the African Continent DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2020

Deadline: 09 February 2020 The Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, BIGSAS, invites outstanding female scholars from the African continent to join an international community of scholars working in the field of African Studies. The scholarship periods begin in October 2020 (including an intensive German language course starting in...

1 PhD Scholarship Announcement: “Diaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crises” (D-Hum), University of Nairobi

Deadline for applications: January 4 2020 at noon (East African Time) The University of Nairobi (UoN), in collaboration with Rako Research and Communication Centre (RRCC),Hargeisa, Somaliland; Rift Valley Institute (RVI), Nairobi; and the Danish Institute for International Studies(DIIS), Copenhagen, Denmark; invite interested and qualified candidates...

AsiaGlobal Fellows Program 2020

The Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong is now inviting applications for its 2020 AsiaGlobal Fellows Program, an interdisciplinary and intensive leadership development initiative designed for mid-career professionals from around the world. The 13-week residential program in Hong Kong will run from August 24 to November 20, 2020. We...

Doctoral Program in International Education Development Graduate School of Education, Peking University

The Graduate School of Education is starting a brand-new, four-year, full-time, English taught doctoral programme at the Peking University in International Education Development (IED), catering for international (non-Chinese citizen) students. As the focus of IED shifts from that of targeting access to education to that of ensuring its continued quality...

JUMP Call 2020: Scholarships for Conference Visit and Journal Mentoring Available for Researchers from the Global South

In connection with the forthcoming EADI/ISS Conference 2020 on “Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice”, to be held from 29 June to 2 July 2020 in the Hague, The Netherlands, PhD and early career researchers from the Global South are invited to apply for the JUMP Mentoring programme. Applicants must have submitted an abstract to either one of the Conference...

CODESRIA Doctoral Mentees Inducted at Nairobi Seminar by Maina Waruru

2019 College of Mentors Institute Nairobi, Kenya 21 - 31 October 2019 “The Doctoral Mentorship Institute of the CODESRIA College of Mentors hosted the 2019 cohort of mentees to a seminar in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together 42 doctoral students from universities in Africa from 21 to 31 October 2019. The seminar drew a mix of fellows all doctoral...

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