Social science
Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic
As other reviewers of this book have mentioned, there is probably few who are better suited to write this book than Paul Richards, with such a depth of knowledge and experience of the areas where the epidemic occurred. In “Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic” (2016) the author argues that faced “with […]
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Research Fellows: Makerere Institute of Social Research (Uganda)
Makerere University invites applications for One (1) Senior Research Fellow and Two (2) Research Fellow positions in the fields of: Political Economy: Agrarian studies; Economic Theory and History; Late Industrialization and International Political Economy. History, with a specialization in Pre-Colonial African and Indian Ocean History and/or Historiography and Historical Methods. Political Theory: Modern and pre-modern, Western and […]
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In-residence Fellowship (Bulgaria)
CAS Sofia is an independent Institute with international and multidisciplinary profile. Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, it promotes high-level scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities. In addition to supporting focus-group research, CAS Sofia invites outstanding scholars to pursue their individual research projects during in-residence periods of up to five months. The invited Fellows participate […]
Tags: #Fellowship #Humanities #Mutlidisciplinary #Social science
Post Doctoral Fellow (Social Scientist)
WorldFish is looking for a post-doctoral fellow (PDF) with social science and gender training to lead this research with support from natural and social scientists currently working for WorldFish in Egypt and Zambia. The PDF will review and validate the findings of consumer and market studies already carried out in Egypt and Zambia (if applicable) […]
Tags: #Fishing Systems #Gender #Post-doc #Social science #WorldFish
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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