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PhD Studentships (3): City Dashboards
Since its inception in 2004 with the support of Science Foundation Ireland, the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) has become firmly established as a leading centre for research in the field of Geocomputation, applying computational methods to large spatial data sets from acquisition to analysis, modelling and visualisation. The NCG has is offering three PhD […]
Post-doc: Climate Change & Governance
This post-doctoral opportunity will support research on Canadian and international climate change and flood risk governance. Policymakers have started to explore the adoption of “risk-based” approaches to disaster management—such as the use of risk assessments as a condition for disaster mitigation funding—and the expansion of private insurance to replace government disaster assistance. The post-doctoral fellow […]
Tags: #Climate change #Disaster Management #Governance #Mitigation #Risk
Post-doc: Governance, Transportation & Change
We require two Postdoctoral Research Fellows for the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant led by Professor Paul Nugent entitled African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition (AFRIGOS). You will investigate the process of ‘respacing’ Africa, a political drive towards regional and continental integration, on the one hand, and […]
Tags: #Africa #Governance #Infrastructure #Politics #Transportation
Post-doc: Migration, livelihoods, gender
Two-year full-time postdoc Migration, livelihoods and SRHR: A triple case-study of young female migrants (YFMs) in Dhaka, Bangladesh The Jahangir Nagar University (JU), Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB) and the Anthropology Department at the VU University are looking for a post-doc researcher for the two year WOTRO funded project “Migration, livelihoods and SRHR: A triple case-study […]
Tags: #Gender #Livelihoods #Migration
Post-doc: Funding Writing Awards (UEA)
Three postdoctoral bid writing awards worth £1,600 each are available to early career scholars within 12 months of the award of a doctorate and who do not yet hold a permanent academic job. Funding is for four weeks of writing time, to enable the candidate to work on a postdoctoral application to a funder/s of […]
PhD: The Politics of Big Data
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) of the Faculty of Humanities is looking for a PhD candidate to join the ERC-funded project ‘Data Activism: The Politics of Big Data According to Civil Society'(DATACTIVE), with Dr. Stefania Milan as Principal Investigator. DATACTIVE investigates citizens’ engagement with massive data collection, seeking to understand how activism evolves […]
Tags: #Activism #Big data #Civil society #Politics #Social change
PhD or Post-doc: Children and Youth in Challenging Contexts
The Children and Youth in Challenging Contexts Network (cyccnetwork.org) based at Dalhousie University and under the direction of Dr. Michael Ungar, Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience, is looking for dynamic individuals with an interest in developing expertise and expanding their research in the field of knowledge mobilization/implementation science/knowledge translation related to […]
Tags: #Children #Knowledge Mobilization #Knowledge translation #Wellbeing #Youth
Post-Doc: Princeton Society of Fellows
Online Application Form Opens August 15, 2016 The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for the 2017-2020 Fellowship competition. Four three-year Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded this year. The stipend for each of the three years of the fellowship will be […]
Tags: #Fellowship #Humanities #Post-doc #Princeton #Social Sciences
PhD Studentship: African Climate Science
The Peter Carpenter African Climate Scholarship The University of Sussex invites applications for two fully funded PhD scholarships for research into African climate science. The Peter Carpenter African Climate Scholarship is open to citizens of African countries only. The start date is September 2016 or January 2017. The scholarship covers 100% of tuition fees and […]
Tags: #Africa #Climate change #Climate Science #Geography #PhD Studentship
Postdoc: Web Mapping & Oral History
Based at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the Geomedia Lab, at Concordia University, the Postdoctoral Fellow will contribute to the technological and methodological development of the Living Archives Toolkit of the Rwandan Diaspora, a public online platform that will enable researchers, educators and survivors themselves to access 87 recorded life story interviews. […]
Tags: #Mapping #Mass violence #Oral History #Rwanda #Web mapping
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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