Deadline: 15 June 2017
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a new intervention targeting support to doctoral schools and rebuilding scholarly communities in the social sciences and humanities in African universities.
The initiative carries forward CODESRIA’s work in strengthening the institutional bases for knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities in African universities. This particular call rhymes with the council’s 2017- 2021 strategic plan that focuses on ‘Reaching New Frontiers in Social Research and Knowledge Production for African Transformation and Development’.
This ‘call for proposals’ is part of CODESRIA’s efforts to reposition and strengthen research and teaching of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) In African universities. The overall goal is to engender a generation of academics and knowledge that can enable the people of the continent critically (re) imagine and (re) create better, freer, more sustainable, and more inclusive communities and worlds.
Priority Areas
Proposals should focus on one of the following activities:
- Support for strengthening of the administrative aspects of graduate schools including issues to do with curricular reform, doctoral student supervision practices and mentoring of faculty in graduate supervision,
- Interventions to rebuild/recreate scholarly infrastructures and academic communities in the SSH through holding faculty seminars, strengthening faculty journals and conferences, systems to recreate strong workshop and seminar cultures, etc.
- Support for scholarly writing and academic publishing workshops especially targeting doctoral students and early career academics.
How to Apply
Proposals submitted should include the following:
- A 10-page concept proposal outlining the activity to be supported; how it will be organized, if it will be jointly organized with doctoral schools/faculties from other institutions, the number of participants targeted and how it fits into the institution’s overall academic plan and CODESRIA’s strategy as outlined in this call, and overall outputs and outcomes expected from the activity. It will also be important to show how the institution intends to sustain such activities on an annual basis.
- A forwarding letter from a senior institutional administrator and another from the Dean of the school/faculty proposing to host the activity;
- A detailed budget indicating the amount of funding required for organizing the activity. An indication of any support from the institution to support the activity proposed will be important.
- The duration of the activity (CODESRIA will support activities lasting from 5- 10 working days) and hosted within institutional environments.
- Once selected, CODESRIA will liaise with the Deans of the schools selected to appoint a director who will oversee the scientific aspects of the program and make a report to CODESRIA at the end of the activity.
Complete application documents should be sent electronically via email.
Eligible Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cote d’Ivorie, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
For more information, please visit CODESRIA.