Logan Cochrane

6 Post-docs at Royal Roads (Canada)

Topics: Working with Dr. Brian Belcher, Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sustainability Research Effectiveness, the post-doc will focus on research to assess the effectiveness and the impact of transdisciplinary research (TDR) for improved livelihoods, community resilience, and environmental sustainability. Working with Dr. Ann Dale, Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability, the post-doc will […]

Tags: #Climate change #Education #Leadership #Public Health #Sustainability

PhD Studentship: Global Studies

PSL Research University Paris and the Program Global Studies offer two doctoral fellowships, to start in 2016-7. Candidates can be from every field in the humanities and social sciences. Their projects must express a clear global topic and analysis related to the main axes of the program (hereafter). Global studies includes both research and teaching […]

Tags: #Funding #Global Studies #PhD #PhD Studentship

At Congress2016 as a SSHRC Storyteller

Presented at Congress2016 on May 30th as a SSHRC Storyteller Finalist.

Tags: #Congress2016 #Ethiopia #Food Security #SSHRC #Stages of Food Security

Post-Doc: Development Economics

Centre for Studies of African Economies, Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford People often do not take up programmes or interventions, even if these might have high returns or improve their wellbeing. Psychological constraints may form part of an explanation for this pattern. These psychological constraints may be particularly severe among […]

Tags: #Capabilities #Development economics #Post-doc #Psychology #Wellbeing

Research Fellowship: Civil Resistance

In 2016, ICNC offers a new, expanded stipend opportunity for both Ph.D. students and Junior Faculty. ICNC’s Doctoral and Junior Faculty Research Fellowship enables eligible applicants to carry out research on civil resistance and/or conduct a study that can benefit from a civil resistance perspective, as part of their dissertation or for an upcoming book, […]

Tags: #Civil resistance #Fellowship #PhD Award #Research Award

PhD studentship: ‘Changing Cultures in Health and Medicine’

Deadline for applications: Friday 3rd June 2016, 4pm The University of Liverpool is seeking applications for a fully funded PhD studentship in the Medical Humanities and Social Sciences to be associated with the Centre for Health, Arts and Science (CHARTS). Alongside PhD research, the successful candidate will play a role in raising the profile of […]

Tags: #Anthropology #Culture #Ethiopian Public Health Institute #PhD Studentship

MSF: Publicity Stunt or Organizational Values?

On May 5th MSF / Doctors Without Borders announced it was pulling out of the much anticipated World Humanitarian Summit. In an official statement, it stated: “We no longer have any hope that the WHS will address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations. Instead, the WHS’s […]

Tags: #Doctors Without Borders #MSF #Organizational Values #Publicity Stunt #World Humanitarian Summit

4 PhD Studentships: Climate Change

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) offers 4 scholarships to candidates who would like to pursue their PhD degree at ICTA within the Strategic Research Programme ICTA-UAB María de Maeztu, Programme for Units of Excellence in R&D (MDM-2015-0552). The positions are related to the call “Ayudas para […]

Tags: #Climate change #PhD Studentship #Scholarship #Sustainability

2016 Commonwealth Scholarship

Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships offer the opportunity to study for a UK Master’s degree while living and working in your home country. The courses are delivered either in partnership with universities in developing countries, or directly by UK universities. To apply for these scholarships, you must: Be a citizen of a developing Commonwealth country, refugee, […]

Free Online Course: Technology & Society

This Technology at Work Massive Open Online Course (Tech@Work MOOC) aims to ignite a conversation about how emerging technology will change the nature of work, the workplace, the future of work and impact society more broadly. While technology has always played a significant role in modernizing the workplace and the work, the speed and magnitude […]

Tags: #Digital Economy #Employment #Online Course #Society #Technology