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The Mystery of Capital (2000) de Soto
Talking with undergraduate and graduate students has led me to believe that fewer people are investing their time in books. Wikipedia provides the long version, and Twitter keeps us up to date. One important thing that we have lost, in development studies and generally, is a more grounded understanding of where ideas came from and how they […]
Tags: #Capital #Capitalism #Development economics #Private Property #Property Rights
PhD Scholarship (Targeted Governmental Aid, Health)
Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply for this fully-funded, 3-year PhD studentship which is a collaboration between the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield and The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund), one of the largest and most influential multilateral institutions devoted to international development. This innovative […]
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, […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Fellowship #Gender #Gendered knowledge #Post-doc
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
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a 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 twenty 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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