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Early Career Fellowships – Brunel University London
Brunel University London will support a number of Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications in the 2016 competition. Applications for this competition require the support of a member of Brunel staff who is willing to act as mentor. Brunel will hold an internal competition to decide which applications will be put forward under the scheme […]
Silent Violence: Food, Famine & Peasantry
I enjoy reading books in the international development sphere than are dated. Sometimes it is encouraging to see how far the sector has come, and at other times it is depressing how little has changed. These books are often sources of inspiration for ideas, while at the same time provide a better grounding on where […]
Tags: #Famine #Food Security #Food systems #Nigeria #Poverty
Post-doc Fellowships (Canada)
University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellowships Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowships provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies established through a bequest from the late Dorothy J Killam valued at $46,000 per year for two years number of fellowships awarded varies each year (three for 2016-2017) includes a one-time $4,000 […]
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Funded PhDs (3): Anthropology; Islam in Asia
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the leading centres for research in social anthropology. Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ethnography #Islam #Muslim #Southeast Asia
David Suzuki Fellowships (3)
The David Suzuki Fellowship program will empower emerging scholars to tackle complex environmental problems. It will reduce financial barriers, provide mentorship and foster leadership and creativity so fellows can conduct research and engage and inform the public and policy-makers. AWARD A total of three fellowships are available, one in Montreal, one in Toronto and one […]
Tags: #Climate change #Energy #Fellowship #Indigenous knowledge #Renewable Energy
Putting the Last First
In 1983 Robert Chambers published “Rural Development: Putting the Last First.” If you have not come across this book, it is well worth finding a copy. As a book written more than three decades ago, it offers some perspective on what lessons have been learned. However, this book is particularly challenging to read as you […]
Tags: #Academia #Bias #Development Studies #International development #Rural Development
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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