The Erasmus Mundus GEM PhD School (www.erasmusmundus-gem.eu) – associated with the GR:EEN FP7 Research Project (www.greenfp7.eu), the Manouba University Tunis (www.uma.rnu.tn) and the Fondation Bernheim (www.fondationbernheim.be) – has officially launched the Call for Doctoral Applications of the 2013 GR:EEN – GEM PhD Summer School. It will be held in Carthage (Tunisia), from August 18th till 23rd 2013 on the topic:  The Arab Spring, Domestic Democratic Transitions and the Evolving Euro-Mediterranean Framework Applications are welcome until June 28th 2013.   For [...]

Early-Stage Researcher (Doctoral Scholarship) Marie Curie ITN Project:  Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical threshold and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future (REAL)  The History Department at the University of Warwick is able to offer a 3-year doctoral scholarship for research on the Environmental History of Africa, commencing in October 2013, under the supervision of Professor David Anderson. The doctoral project: Historical change in the wider Kilimanjaro lowlands (Amboseli-Pangani-Challa-Pare), c.1830 to the present Kilimanjaro has always had an [...]

Please find attached a call for applications for one PhD position andmaintenance funding at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology(incorporating the Centre of West African Studies) at the University ofBirmingham. The successful applicant will be expected to pursue doctoralresearch on West African history with a focus on the Central Sahel region.Proficiency in reading Arabic is essential. The scholarship is attached to an AHRC funded Collaborative DoctoralPartnership awarded to the British Library for research and cataloguingrelated to its collection of [...]

The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join its ‘Illness, Boundaries and Health Systems’ team. The position will contribute to a project exploring the impact of migration legislation, trafficking discourses and transnational networks on the feelings of belonging of migrant sex workers (MSWs) in The Netherlands and South Africa. This position is financially supported by WOTRO and is a central component of a research collaboration between [...]

Summer School: Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Challenges in Area Studies 1st Basel Summer School in African Studies (course no. 34375) The Basel Summer School in African Studies sets out to stimulate and consolidate a new perspective on African Studies. It will focus on African Studies as an instance of area studies and will identify themes that are theoretically, conceptually and methodologically relevant to the reflection on the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge and its contribution to general [...]

 International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague) of Erasmus University Rotterdam  The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is a leading academic centre for international development studies, and a University Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). It is one of the oldest institutes in this field, having been established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Netherlands Ministry of Education as a postgraduate institute for research, education and capacity building. The institute offers a PhD in Development Studies, a 15.5-month [...]

ESRC PhD Scholarship Full scholarship to work with the Microloan Foundation on a project in Malawi We are looking for strong applicants for a fully-funded ESRC collaborative PhD studentship to work with the Microloan Foundation in Malawi to analyse the emergence of entrepreneurship and solar markets in rural Malawi.  The PhD project will: 1. Trace the patterns of knowledge practice, social relations and solar technology (as a case study) that interact to shape the emergence of women entrepreneurs in rural [...]

Bolsas de pós-graduação e especialização para estudantes de países africanos de língua portuguesa e de Timor Leste Estimulo à investigação e valorização de recursos humanos Candidaturas abertas de 1 a 30 de abril A atribuição destas bolsas pretende estimular a investigação e a valorização dos recursos humanos, a nacionais dos Estados Africanos de Língua Portuguesa e de Timor Leste, que nestes países exerçam a sua atividade e que pretendam prosseguir, atualizar e especializar os seus conhecimentos nos vários ramos do saber. [...]

5ª CONVOCATORIA DE LOS PREMIOS DE ENSAYO CASA ÁFRICA   Casa África convoca por quinto año consecutivo los Premios de Ensayo Casa África, con los que pretende reconocer, incentivar y divulgar ensayos originales e inéditos que contribuyan a un mejor conocimiento del continente africano.   La ciudad africana, su desarrollo, su presente y su futuro, serán los protagonistas de esta convocatoria de los Premios de Ensayo Casa África. Bajo el título RETOS Y OPORTUNIDADES DEL DESARROLLO URBANO EN ÁFRICA, el tema [...]

Exmos./as Senhores/as, O gabinete de apoio à investigação (GAI) tem o prazer de anunciar a abertura  das candidaturas aos Prémios Científicos do ISCTE-IUL 2013 que visam promover e distinguir a excelência da publicação científica a nível internacional dos professores e investigadores do ISCTE-IUL. Solicita-se a máxima divulgação, junto de potenciais interessados. RequisitosPara efeito dos Prémios Científicos do ISCTE-IUL são considerados, exclusivamente, artigos publicados em língua inglesa, em revistas científicas internacionais indexadas na Web of Knowledge da Thomson Reuters (ex-ISI Web of Knowledge), [...]