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MA & PhD Studentships: Indigenous Territorial Rights in Russia
UNBC is seeking highly motivated and adventurous students to join a new research project, Indigenous Territorial Rights in the Russian Federation. The research team includes members from Canada, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and the Russian Federation. Students will pursue topics of their own choice under the broad themes of legal and/or cultural geographies of indigenous rights […]
Tags: #Human Geography #Indigenous Rights #interdisciplinary Research #Land rights #Russia
Funding: Mobility, Displacement, and Forced Migration in the Middle East
The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar invites proposals from scholars and researchers interested in conducting original research on the topic of “Mobility, Displacement and Forced Migration in the Middle East.” CIRS will award research grants to support fieldwork, original empirical research, and analysis on […]
Tags: #Displacement #Forced Migration #Middle East #Migration #Mobility
PhD Studentship: Emerging Black Middle Class in South Africa
The Department of Social Research invites applications for a fixed term from 1.1.2017 to 30.4.2020. The field of the position is Social and Cultural Anthropology and it relates to the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences. Social and Cultural Anthropology is a small but vibrant unit with two professors, three university lecturers and 16 researchers and PhD […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Cultural Anthropology #PhD Studentship #Social Sciences #South Africa
Post-doc: Social Innovation
University of Waterloo – Institute for Social Innovation and Resiliance One year fulltime postdoctoral fellowship: $50,000 annual salary, office and administrative support provided Supervision by Frances Westley, McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, and Dan McCarthy, Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) The University of Waterloo’s Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience […]
Tags: #Complexity #Post-doc #Resilience #Social Innovation #Transformation
IDRC Research Awards 2017
Eligibility: This call is open to Canadians, permanent residents of Canada, and citizens of developing countries pursuing OR who have completed a master’s or a doctoral degree at a recognized university. Who can apply: Positions are available at IDRC’s head office in Ottawa, Canada and at our regional office for Sub-Saharan Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Eligibility criteria […]
Tags: #Governance #International development #International Development Research Centre #Justice #Research Award
Doctoral Studentship: Africa-China Relations
Deadline for receipt of applications: 21 June 2016. This full-time, fixed-term position is available for 4 years, from September 2016 to August 2019. The scholarship is attached to the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant entitled African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition (AFRIGOS) that runs for 5 years […]
7 PhD Studentships: Climate Change
Within the current call, successful applicants will be hosted at ICTA in its sustainable building (Leed-Gold) on the UAB campus, Bellaterra (Barcelona, Spain) and will develop their Ph.D. training in one of the seven projects detailed below: Climate change and the Spanish agricultural sector. Water requirements and water availability, Are they compatible?. Supervisors: Gonzalo Gamboa […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Climate change #Deforestation #Effectiveness #Health
Post-doc: Justice and Global Food Systems
The Department is pleased to offer a two-year Research Fellowship in the area of the Justice and Global Food Systems: Injustices and Resistance in Global Food Governance. This exciting post-doctoral position offers exceptional applicants the opportunity to develop and deliver an original research project addressing this theme, working within one of the UK’s strongest Departments […]
Tags: #Food Security #Food system #Governance #Justice #Social Justice
Post-doc: Social Anthropology (Energy)
There is a temporary 2-year position available at the Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management (NTNU) as Postdoctoral Fellow in social anthropology. This fixed-term position has the primary goal of qualifying for work in professional academic chair positions. Obligations The postdoctoral position forms part of a research project called Energy […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Arctic #Energy #Energy Futures #Ethnographic
Post-doc: Tropical forest biomass (Netherlands)
The Centre for Geo-Information at Wageningen University (NL) is offering a PostDoc position to perform research on the concept, tools and implementation for the independent validation, regional calibration and the use of global biomass products derived from remote sensing and their analysis to assess the impact of human-induced changes on tropical forest biomass. The work […]
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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