May, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 6

Research Positions in the Department of Engineering at IIT- Bombay, India

Positions of Research Associate/Junior Research Fellow (RA/JRF), Research Associate (RA), Project Engineer (PE), Senior Research Fellow (SRF), Research Engineer (RE), System Administrator (SA), Research Assistant (RA1), Co-ordinator (CRD), Project Associate (PA), Design Associate (DA) are available in the following projects. The positions are temporary initially for a period of one year and tenable only for the duration of project. The selection committee may offer lower or higher designation and lower or higher salary depending upon the experience and performance of the candidate in the interview.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 May 2011

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social Sciences in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2011

This Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation,the Volkswagen Foundation and other European partners aims at providing sustainable support for research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Besides an African-European cooperation, special emphasis is put on the development and extension of academic networks within Africa.This call is part of the Foundations’ career development strategy for African researchers in which junior and senior postdoctoral fellows should take responsibility for developing and executing their own research project and show leadership responsibilities for their research group (in the case of senior fellows). The project must be carried out in collaboration with a European partner institution. The call is open to all scholars from Sub-Saharan Africa active in the research fields mentioned below.

Scholarship Application Deadline:June 15, 2011

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MSc Research Grant in the School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda

One MSc Research position and bursary is available on a Rockefeller Foundation funded research project on climate in agricultural systems of Uganda, in the School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University. The goal of the project is to provide a framework for developing farm and community level adaptation strategies to climate change in Uganda’s agricultural and natural resources management systems. In this regard the project intends to; 1). Assess vulnerability of agro-ecological zones to climate variability and change, and 2). Identify adaptation measures to the effects of change on a selected agro-enterprise within an agro-ecological zone.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 20th May 2011

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