The Peter Carpenter African Climate Scholarship The University of Sussex invites applications for two fully funded PhD scholarships for research into African climate science. The Peter Carpenter African Climate Scholarship is open to citizens of African countries only. The start date is September 2016 or January 2017. The scholarship covers 100% of tuition fees and […]
Tags: #Africa #Climate change #Climate Science #Geography #PhD Studentship
“In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we’re just letting them die.” – Pieter-Dirk Uys In her 2003 book, ‘Letting them Die’: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail, Catherine Campbell describes how “the best-intentioned programmes, even when they achieve high levels of mobilization of the least-powerful sectors of small local communities, may have […]
Tags: #Failure #International development #Participation #social capital #Stakeholders
Based at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the Geomedia Lab, at Concordia University, the Postdoctoral Fellow will contribute to the technological and methodological development of the Living Archives Toolkit of the Rwandan Diaspora, a public online platform that will enable researchers, educators and survivors themselves to access 87 recorded life story interviews. […]
Tags: #Mapping #Mass violence #Oral History #Rwanda #Web mapping
UNBC is seeking highly motivated and adventurous students to join a new research project, Indigenous Territorial Rights in the Russian Federation. The research team includes members from Canada, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and the Russian Federation. Students will pursue topics of their own choice under the broad themes of legal and/or cultural geographies of indigenous rights […]
Tags: #Human Geography #Indigenous Rights #interdisciplinary Research #Land rights #Russia
The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar invites proposals from scholars and researchers interested in conducting original research on the topic of “Mobility, Displacement and Forced Migration in the Middle East.” CIRS will award research grants to support fieldwork, original empirical research, and analysis on […]
Tags: #Displacement #Forced Migration #Middle East #Migration #Mobility
Cochrane, L. and Tamiru, Y. (2016) Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Power, Politics and Practice. Journal of International Development 28(5): 649-665. Abstract With one third of the population living in poverty and millions experiencing chronic food insecurity, the government of Ethiopia faces difcult and complex challenges. One of the most robust and effective social protection […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Participation #Politics #Power #Productive Safety Net Program