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Professional Development Options (Online & Free)
For those interested to gain more skills that are relevant to development and humanitarian activities, this post will list free, online resources. Each includes a brief description. If you have other suggestions of free training options, send me an email and I will add them. I have recommended that you try to make this a habit […]
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Visiting Fellowships 2017/18 Shanghai University
The Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University, invites applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to socio-economic development on local, national, regional or global levels. The Center for the History of Global Development is a new research focus established at […]
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Funded PhDs: Energy Ethics
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews (UK) is advertising 2 PhD scholarships (4 years, full time, 100% UK/EU fee waiver with maintenance stipend of approx. £14,296/year (equivalent to a RCUK stipend) and conference/research expenses) to participate in an ERC-funded research project on the ethics of oil. The start date is […]
Post-doc: Population Data
Population Data BC is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Associate for a two-year term, with possibility for extension, to take significant leadership in a timely applied research project that will engage with the public to reform governance of access to research resources. Developments in data, technology, researcher desires, and public expectations have outpaced the […]
Post-doc: Migration and the humanities (Harvard)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism and human rights. Too […]
Tags: #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Morals #Representation
Funded MA: Northern Agriculture and Food
Project: Agricultural values and food sovereignty possibilities on the edge of Northern Ontario Graduate Program: Public Issues Anthropology MA – University of GuelphDeadline: February 1, 2017 SSHRC-supported graduate funding for students interested in issues of agriculture, food sovereignty, agricultural values and ethics, local food systems, and rural livelihoods. Seeking 1-2 MA students who are planning […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Anthropology #Food Security #Food Sovereignty #Food systems
Post-doc: Comparative Global Humanities (Tufts)
2017-2018 Center for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Global Humanities The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University (CHAT) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship, beginning July 1, 2017. The fellows will be in residence at the Center, and participate in a research seminar on themes in Comparative Global Humanities, a project that […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Capitalism #Colonialism #Humanities #Migration
Early Career Fellowships – Brunel University London
Brunel University London will support a number of Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications in the 2016 competition. Applications for this competition require the support of a member of Brunel staff who is willing to act as mentor. Brunel will hold an internal competition to decide which applications will be put forward under the scheme […]
Post-doc Fellowships (Canada)
University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellowships Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowships provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies established through a bequest from the late Dorothy J Killam valued at $46,000 per year for two years number of fellowships awarded varies each year (three for 2016-2017) includes a one-time $4,000 […]
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Funded PhDs (3): Anthropology; Islam in Asia
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the leading centres for research in social anthropology. Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ethnography #Islam #Muslim #Southeast Asia
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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