2016 Commonwealth Scholarship

Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships offer the opportunity to study for a UK Master’s degree while living and working in your home country. The courses are delivered either in partnership with universities in developing countries, or directly by UK universities. To apply for these scholarships, you must: Be a citizen of a developing Commonwealth country, refugee, […]

Post-Doc Fellow: Agriculture & Climate Change (Ethiopia)

Climate change is affecting food and nutrition security of Ethiopian farmers, particularly under marginal conditions (low and irregular rainfall, rising temperatures acid soils). Available genetic diversity of barley and durum wheat is an important resource to provide farmers with Climate-Smart, nutrient-dense landraces or improved materials, to sustainably increase yields under unfavourable conditions of Tigray, Oromiya […]

Tags: #Agriculture #Climate change #Fellow #Food Security #Post-doc

Free Online Course: Technology & Society

This Technology at Work Massive Open Online Course (Tech@Work MOOC) aims to ignite a conversation about how emerging technology will change the nature of work, the workplace, the future of work and impact society more broadly. While technology has always played a significant role in modernizing the workplace and the work, the speed and magnitude […]

Tags: #Digital Economy #Employment #Online Course #Society #Technology

Surplus People: Forced Removals in South Africa

The experts for this ‘thought provoker’ come from “The Surplus People: Forced Removals in South Africa” (1985) by Platzky and Walker, which is the summarized version of a five volume study on the topic. The book was published while apartheid was still forcing relocation and displacement, as one of its many policies for “separate development.” In […]

Tags: #Apartheid #Forced Removal #Relocation #South Africa #Surplus People

PhD Opportunity: Formation of Urbanity

The Institute of Social Anthropology and the interdisciplinary program in Urban and Landscape Studies at the University of Basel are offering two PhD positions for the SNF-funded research project Making the City: Agency, Urbanity and Urbanisation in Ordinary Cities (2016–2019)The project will explore the formation of urbanity by comparing respective processes in four cities of […]

Tags: #Agency #Anthropology #PhD #Urbanity #Urbanization

PhD Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities (Sweden)

This PhD project will address mining in the Arctic from a historical perspective. Potential areas of study include amongst others the development of mining governance across different regions of the Arctic, the development of environmental management in relation to resource extraction, relations between mining companies and indigenous peoples, concepts of social license and corporate social […]

Tags: #Corporate Social Responsibility #Governance #Resource extraction #Sustainability #Sustainable Arctic Communities