Scholarship Details: The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy project is part of a network of international scholars engaged in researching the possibility of alternatives to the models by which economies were organised in the 20th century.The value of the Human Economy doctoral scholarships is R120 000 per annum, to include research funds, for a maximum [...]

Scholarship Details: 2012 /2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Position Are you interested in the field of stem cell, medicinal chemist in tissue regeneration of articular cartilage in South Africa? POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP POSITIONS are available at the Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Science staring from January 2012.

Scholarship Details: CSIR Defence, Peace, Safety and Security (DPSS) unit has a vacancy for a Senior Researcher in Infrared Modelling and Simulation within the Optronic Sensor Systems (OSS) competency area. This is a permanent position based at the CSIR’s head office in Pretoria and the incumbent will report directly to the research group leader of [...]

Scholarship Details: During the 2012/2013 academic year, the CARTA program is planning to offer up to 25 PhD fellowships. The Fellowship, which is tenable at one of the participating African universities, includes the cost of fellows’ participation in the advanced seminars; a modest monthly stipend; small grants for research activities; a laptop loaded with relevant [...]

Scholarship Details: The University of Pretoria Research Development Programme (RDP) is a programme that is used to provide special recognition for new researchers with potential. Financial assistance is granted annually on a competitive basis to promising academic staff members who are at the beginning of their research careers, or who have recently joined the University. [...]

Scholarship Details: The National Arts Council invites individuals and registered organisations active in theatre, dance, crafts, literature, music, multi-discipline and visual arts to submit their applications for project funding. Applications are invited for projects that will impact on the arts in the society/ communities. Post- graduate students wishing to pursue international arts studies are also [...]

Scholarship Details: The Africa Initiative’s (AI) graduate research grant program supports short-term academic placements for Master’s and PhD students enrolled in African universities undertaking research on Africa on one or more of the program’s thematic areas of conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, migration, and climate change.The program offers grants of up to CAD$10,000 to [...]

Scholarship Details: ILRI seeks to recruit a research assistant to join a small team of professionals working on the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) initiative. The objective of ReSAKSS is to provide data, information and knowledge to stakeholders in order to improve the formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of agricultural and [...]

Scholarship Details: ILRI seeks to recruit a GIS Analyst to lead and document specific GIS analyses in the field of livestock, natural resource management, Climate change and others as part of the research project of the team.Support research activities; planning of fieldwork, advice on analytical methods, literature searches and synthesis. Collect, document and maintain datasets [...]

Scholarship Details: This position will require significant initiative, problem solving skills and the ability to work independently. The principal responsibility of the Post Doc will be to develop mathematical models of CBPP for the purposes of analyzing CBPP transmission dynamics and the performance of biotechnological interventions intended as tools to mitigate the impact of CBPP. [...]

Scholarship Details: The Position: This is an international appointment reporting to the BecA Hub Technology Manager. This position is a two year term appointment with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and continued funding, and is based at ILRI’s Headquarters in Nairobi. Key responsibilities Managing and ensuring quality control of genomics and other [...]

Scholarship Details: This is a prestigious two-way international exchange program between the University of Cape Town and Yale University supporting outstanding students with demonstrated leadership potential from the world’s finest educational institutions to spend an academic year at Yale University pursuing independent research.

Scholarship Details: The successful candidate has to return to South Africa for at least 5 years after completing his or her studies. Applications will open on Monday 2 January 2012 and close Friday 2 March 2012. Shortlisted candidates will be notified by the end of April 2012. These candidates will be interviewed in either Johannesburg [...]

Scholarship Details: Ethel Walt was a human rights activist who directed her passion for social justice through her work in the Black Sash. In 2010, her family established a R10 000 scholarship in her name for the LLM or MPhil programme in Social Justice or Human Rights Law by coursework and minor dissertation.

Scholarships Details: the Department of Science and Technology has identified five areas for long-term research, commensurate with additional funding, which represent a comparative advantage for South Africa. These are the following: Astronomy and Earth Observation, Indigenous knowledge, Bioscience/bio-resources, Palaeontology and Antarctic Islands and Oceans. Therefore in adding to the renewal of the South African National [...]

Scholarship Details: WISER has over the last ten years established itself as the leading South African interdisciplinary research institute in the Humanities and Social Sciences, promoting local and international debate on the complexities of change in South Africa and Africa, understood from comparative and global perspectives. A strong commitment to doctoral training and supervision is [...]

Scholarship Details: The 2012 call for NRF applications for full-time Master’s, Honours or BTech study is now open for hardcopy applications. If students have already submitted an online application for Master’s, they do not need to complete the hardcopy application as the electronic version will be considered.

Scholarship Details: WISER has over the last ten years established itself as the leading South African interdisciplinary research institute in the Humanities and Social Sciences, promoting local and international debate on the complexities of change in South Africa and Africa, understood from comparative and global perspectives. A strong commitment to doctoral training and supervision is [...]

Scholarship Details: The 2012 call for NRF applications for full-time Master’s study is now open for hardcopy applications. If students have already submitted an online application for Master’s, they do not need to complete the hardcopy application as the electronic version will be considered.

Scholarship Details: The 2012 call for NRF applications for full-time Master’s, Honours or BTech study is now open for hardcopy applications. If students have already submitted an online application for Master’s, they do not need to complete the hardcopy application as the electronic version will be considered.

Scholarship Details: Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) invites scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies, to apply for our dissertation fellowship. We seek applicants pursuing innovative, preferably interdisciplinary, projects in dialogue with critical issues and [...]