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PhD Studentship: Public History of the Middle East
The Public History program and the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at NC State University are looking for a Doctoral Candidate in the Public History of the Middle East to start in fall 2017 for a period of three years. Acceptance into the program includes a competitive stipend, full tuition waiver, and health coverage. […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Culture #Ethnography #History #Middle East
PhD Studentship: 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 Networks #Food policy #Food Security #Food Sovereignty #Governance Systems
Essential Reference on Food Security
For those interested in, doing research on, or teaching about food security, Mark Gibson’s “The Feeding of Nations: Redefining Food Security for the 21st Century” (2012) is an essential reference to have. The book is a hardcover 640-page academic work, and unfortunately not cheap. There are a couple of ways to access the ideas if […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Food Security #Food Studies #Nutrition #Technology
Postdoc (Multiple): Patent-oriented Health Research
Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) puts patients and caregivers first, to foster “evidence-informed health care by evaluating innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and bringing them to the point of care.” Since its inception, SPOR has supported the development, implementation and ongoing evaluation of provincial Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials (SUPPORT) Units. […]
Enemies of Innovation
Dr. Calestous Juma’s new book, “Innovation and its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies” (2016), explains that this is a book Dr. Juma has wanted to write since his early engagement with innovation. That includes his founding of the African Centre for Technology Studies in 1988, being a former Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological […]
Postdoc: Migration & the Humanities (Harvard)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. The current refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East has made it clear that migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the […]
Tags: #Harvard #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Refugee Crisis
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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