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Post-Doc Fellow – Gendered Agricultural Knowledge (Uganda)
Bioversity International is seeking a highly motivated Post Doctoral Fellow to conduct research on how to integrate gender-oriented research, especially gendered trait preferences, into the complete banana-breeding process. Banana-breeders historically prioritize hybrid creation for yield and resistance (pest, disease, abiotic) traits, without fully understanding all the traits important to the intended end-users. As banana cultivation, […]
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Post-doc Scientia Fellowship
Scientia Fellows focuses on the stimulation and promotion of the life-long training and career development of experienced researchers through trans-national mobility. The Programme aims to offer career development opportunities to excellent researchers in Health Sciences. The Fellows will join dynamic research environment and further develop their skills. Thematic areas include Global Health. Types of Fellowships: Incoming […]
Three PhD Research Positions
Applications are open for three doctoral researchers to work on a 5-year project entitled “Volatile Waters and the Hydrosocial Anthropocene: a Comparative Study of Life in Major River Deltas”, funded by the German research council DFB. The project is based at the University of Cologne. The doctoral researchers are to plan and conduct individual ethnographic research with inhabitants of a delta in different […]
Post-Doc Opportunities (Oslo & Cape Town)
(1) One year post doctoral fellowship with the Consuming Urban Poverty project, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. The postdoctoral research fellow will assist with analysis and publication of survey results on urban food insecurity from the three case study cities. The ideal candidate will have expertise in urban studies […]
Tags: #Fellowship #Global Agri-food systems #Governance #Post-doc #Urban Poverty
New Publication [In Press] In the International Journal of Drug Policy
Cochrane, L. and O’Regan, D. (2016) Legal Harvest and Illegal Trade: Trends, Challenges and Options in Khat Production in Ethiopia. International Journal of Drug Policy. Abstract The production of khat in Ethiopia has boomed over the last two decades, making the country the world’s leading source. Khat is now one of Ethiopia’s largest crops by […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Khat #Policy #Trafficking
Global Affairs Canada: Graduate Student Policy Challenge
Attention graduate students in Canada Concept Global Affairs Canada has announced the inaugural International Policy Ideas Challenge, designed to identify concrete innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges by drawing on the network of talented graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in Canada. Award The top 10 entries will be invited to pitch their proposal virtually to […]
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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