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Funded PhD: Human Rights
The Department of Anthropology at UCL is seeking applications for an MPhil/PhD candidate fully funded by The Sigrid Rausing Trust, to commence in the academic session 2017/18. The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a UK grant-making foundation, founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support human rights globally. In conjunction with potential supervisors, the successful applicant will be expected […]
Post-doc: Power, Poverty & Politics
The International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam the Netherlands is seeking to fill three full-time (100%) vacancies for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher for a two year period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2018. We welcome applications from prospective postdoc researchers who are interested in doing operational research on […]
Funded MA/MES/PhD: Climate Change, Wellbeing & Ecosystems
Drs. Derek Armitage and Prateep Nayak (Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo) and Dr. Melissa Marschke (School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa) are recruiting up to four MA/MES and/or PhD students (Canadian citizens or permanent residents) beginning September 2017 as part of the SSHRC-funded project “Integration of social wellbeing and ecosystem […]
The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice
The World Bank is a favorite target of criticism. Yet, few actually know how the massive organization operates, externally or internally. Michael Goldman set out to do present this information, and specifically in the context of the ‘greening’ of the World Bank (or its development and promotion of “green neoliberalism”) and its funding whereby it […]
Funded MA: Education for Sustainable Development
Location: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Start Date: September 2017 Salary: $12,000/year stipend (with possibility of further scholarship opportunities) THE PROJECT Sustainable Development cannot be achieved through one sector alone, yet education in particular is seen as a vehicle to move us towards this goal. While there is a plethora of literature that examines the […]
New Publication: Participation & Empowerment
Corbett, J., Cochrane, L. and Gill, M. (2016) Powering Up: Revisiting Participatory GIS and Empowerment. The Cartographic Journal http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00087041.2016.1209624 Since 1996, participatory GIS (PGIS) has facilitated avenues through which public participation can occur. One of the ways practitioners articulate social change associated with PGIS interventions has been to qualify success using the term ’empowerment’. This […]
Funded MAs: Corporate Mapping Project
Up to three Research Assistantships for Masters students are available to work under the supervision of Professor Fiona MacPhail and/or Professor Paul Bowles (Department of Economics, University of Northern British Columbia) as part of the Corporate Mapping Project (CMP). UNBC, in partnership with the University of Victoria, Parkland Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, is conducting a […]
Post-doc: State and Disintegration in the Middle East
The CEU Center for Religious Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU announce the launch of “Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East,” a two-year research project commencing in September 2016 with a major grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The research program will host host […]
Post-doc: Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development
Full-time, 24-month appointment jointly in the Department of Geography and the Institute for Great Lakes Research (IGLR). The initial appointment will be for two years; continuation of the appointment is subject to funding and contingent upon satisfactory performance review. The successful candidate will conduct research mainly at the CMU main campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The […]
Funded MA & PhD: Sociology of Development
Two graduate student positions (1 PhD; 1 MA) are available beginning in September 2017 to assist with the project Developing Conformity: Foreign Aid and the Diffusion of Global Norms in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada (http://www.mun.ca/soc/). Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), this […]
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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