February, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 26

Roskilde International Doctoral Summer School, Denmark: Education, Migration, Literature, Technologies

The aims of the Roskilde Summer School are threefold:
– to help students grasp and critically engage with the notions of identity and intercul-turality and see how they are related
– to get to know various research methods that can help students to work within cul-tural and social complexity
– to discuss their own research topics and to get to test various research tools that can help them to move on in/improve their research
The Summer School is meant to be transdisciplinary, and the target group is PhD students from all disciplinary backgrounds who are especially interested in methodologies related to this field of study.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 28 February 2011

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Debesh-Kamal Scholarship for Higher Education/Research Abroad: humanities and the basic sciences

Debesh-Kamal Scholarships will be awarded by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, to deserving candidates for the purpose of higher education/research abroad. The scholarship will be open to Indian nationals irrespective of caste, creed, or religious faith.

Applications

i) Applications for the scholarships, as well as any subsequent correspondence, are to be addressed to the Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park, Kolkata 700 029, and the envelopes should carry the inscription ‘Debesh-Kamal Scholarship’.

ii) Candidates will have to submit, along with their applications, a Postal Order/ Bank Draft for Rs. 100/- in favour of the Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, as the application fee which is not refundable.

Qualification and Age

i) The candidates must have a uniformly good academic record with first class marks at the Honours or Post-graduate level, relaxable by the Selection Committee.
ii) They should not ordinarily be more than 30 years of age. Exceptions may be made for short-term post-graduate or post-doctoral researchers.

Area of Study
The preferred subjects of study/research are the humanities and the basic sciences, but candidates in other disciplines, such as social sciences and applied science and technology, will also be considered.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 25 April, 2011

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Senior Research Fellowship, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, India

Applications are invited for the Post of Senior Research Fellow (SRF) for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India Funded project entitled, “Biochemical and Molecular investigation of Plant Dyes” in School of Bio Sciences and Technology (SBST), VIT University, Vellore – 632 014.

Number of positions: One

Qualification: M.Sc. (Biotechnology) with one or two years experience. Knowledge on chromatographic and Molecular Biology techniques is mandatory and NET qualified candidate will be preferred.

Duration of the project : 3 years

Fellowship : Rs.16000/- per month.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 3 March 2011

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