Africa Fellows in Education Program 2023/2024.

The Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) has launched a new call for applications for the Africa Fellows in Education Program 2023/2024.

This initiative aims to build a group of African-based leaders capable of developing evidence and shaping educational policies that are relevant to their countries.

The program enables the fellows to participate in a two-year research and policy development fellowship that introduces them both to relevant research and analytical experiences and to international networks of researchers and policy advisers. 

School of Social Sciences PhD Studentships Heriot-Watt University - Social Sciences

The School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University is offering a number of full-time PhD studentships to start in September 2023.  Studentships include a tuition fee waiver and an annual stipend currently set at £17,668.  The duration of the studentships is three years.  The School of Social Sciences also offers a research support allowance of £2,250 over the registered period of study.  In addition, full-time scholarship holders are normally offered an opportunity to undertake paid teaching support each academic year.

6 PhD positions and 1 postdoc position coming up – seeking expressions of interest

April 2023: New research project led by several research institutions in Germany: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa

Ecosystem restoration is a global challenge. The German Research Foundation is funding a new research project that will investigate the social and ecological consequences of ecosystem restoration in rural Africa, with a particular focus on western Rwanda, and in collaboration with many Rwandan stakeholders.

Postdoc on dynamics of interconnected crises in the global economy and the environment

The program Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere (GEDB) is advertising up to two 2-year postdoc positions, on the topic of understanding how multiple shocks (social, economic, and environmental) combine to create global systemic crises. Of special interest is the mediating role of human-environment interactions and how shocks are transferred, absorbed, and linked together across space, time, and sectors of society.

Self nomination at J-PAL

J-PAL has opened a self-nomination process for invited researchers  Deadline to apply is June 30, 2023.

 

Learn more about Invited Researchers

Invited researchers are an important element of J-PAL’s effort to increase the number of high-quality randomized evaluations providing actionable insights on the most effective approaches to reduce poverty and improve lives worldwide.

Research Associate at the University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow offers a 2-year postdoc position, working with Nick Hanley. The project studies the effects of natural sounds (bird song) on mental well-being, and people’s willingness to pay for enhancing biodiversity.

They are working with ecologists at the University of East Anglia and environmental psychologists at the University of Surrey.