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Post-doc: Social Anthropology (Energy)
There is a temporary 2-year position available at the Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management (NTNU) as Postdoctoral Fellow in social anthropology. This fixed-term position has the primary goal of qualifying for work in professional academic chair positions. Obligations The postdoctoral position forms part of a research project called Energy […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Arctic #Energy #Energy Futures #Ethnographic
Post-doc: Tropical forest biomass (Netherlands)
The Centre for Geo-Information at Wageningen University (NL) is offering a PostDoc position to perform research on the concept, tools and implementation for the independent validation, regional calibration and the use of global biomass products derived from remote sensing and their analysis to assess the impact of human-induced changes on tropical forest biomass. The work […]
At Congress2016 as a SSHRC Storyteller
Presented at Congress2016 on May 30th as a SSHRC Storyteller Finalist.
Tags: #Congress2016 #Ethiopia #Food Security #SSHRC #Stages of Food Security
There is no such thing as a free gift …
“No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy” by Linsey McGoey (2015) provides critical perspectives on the role of foundations, and more generally on philanthropy. However, the book makes a series of questionable linkages and claims, without which it would have been a much stronger book. Attempting to drive home […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Gates Foundation #GMOs #Inequality #Philanthropy
Cadieux-Léger Fellowship (Canada)
The Foreign Policy Research Division of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is pleased to announce the 2016-2017 Cadieux-Léger Fellowship. Do you want to gain valuable experience working in an area related to your studies while contributing to the advancement of Canada’s international interests? The Cadieux-Léger Fellowship, now in its 24th year, provides direct experience in a […]
Tags: #Climate change #Fellowship #Foreign Policy #Global Affairs Canada #Migration
The World’s Emergency Room
Michael VanRooyen’s book (2016) “The World’s Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers” presents a personal narratives of work in the humanitarian sector. While readers do gain glimpses of humanitarian work, and of the challenging settings staff work within, the book does not make a forceful argument about the growing threat […]
Tags: #Coordination #Harvard Humanitarian Initiative #Humanitarianism #Novice aid #Positionality
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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