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Funded MA: Youth & Farming
Funding is available for one student to undertake a two-year MA in Sociology or Public Issues in Anthropology (with the option of the collaborative International Development Studies program) and to undertake research on a topic related to young farmers in one or more of the four countries (Canada, China, India and Indonesia) under the aegis […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Farming #International development #Sociology #Youth
Funded MA: Decarbonization
Two MA funding opportunity at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Anthropocene and Decarbonization: Mapping the Controversies) We invite applications for two MA positions on “Anthropocene and Decarbonization: Mapping the Controversies.” Decarbonization (through the shift to ‘green energies’ and the enhancement of ‘carbon sinks’ in the form of forest conservation) are among the most important strategies being […]
Tags: #Climate change #Decarbonization #Green Energy #Mapping
Funded MA: Environmental Anthropology
Funding is available for an MA student in environmental anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, beginning in September, 2017. Prof. Clint Westman is leading a community-engaged research project focusing on the resource extraction sector’s impacts and processes with respect to Aboriginal people in northern Alberta. The project provides an opportunity for MA students to undertake […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Environment #Ethnography #Resource extraction
The Politics of Evidence
Evidence is important. We want to know what we are doing works (or doesn’t work). But, what happens when particular types of evidence are required to get funding, and what impact does this have on the types of work that is supported by donors? These questions are engaged with in the edited volume “The Politics […]
Tags: #Cost effectiveness #Evidence #Politics #Social Justice #Value for Money
Research Fellows: Makerere Institute of Social Research (Uganda)
Makerere University invites applications for One (1) Senior Research Fellow and Two (2) Research Fellow positions in the fields of: Political Economy: Agrarian studies; Economic Theory and History; Late Industrialization and International Political Economy. History, with a specialization in Pre-Colonial African and Indian Ocean History and/or Historiography and Historical Methods. Political Theory: Modern and pre-modern, Western and […]
Tags: #Agrarian studies #History #Political Economy #Research Fellow #Social science
Funded PhD: Northern Food Systems
Lakehead University, in partnership with the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) project, is looking for an exceptional candidate to undertake PhD research on issues of northern food systems sustainability. We are offering funding of $10,000/year for four years (providing satisfactory performance). Additional funding may be available […]
Tags: #Food policy #Food Security #Food Sovereignty #Food systems #Governance
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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