Deadline: 24-Apr-23
Applications are now open for the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer (JWO) 2023 Research Grant Program that enables early-career scientists to solve African problems with scientific solutions.
Topic: Applicants’ proposals must demonstrate a strong link to biodiversity and conservation.
Funding Information
- A grant of $150,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant. The grant will support a research project or programme for up to three years (previously funded research not eligible).
- Cover the complete project period (3 years)
What they look for?
- Advances the frontiers of knowledge within the chosen field
- Facilitates solutions to African challenges: The research should try and solve an African challenge that occurs in more than one geography and is scalable to other areas. The research should include multiple research sites
- Demonstrates innovative methodologies and approaches
- Exhibits scientific rigour and excellence
- Contributes to human capital development (e.g. mentorship, support, and professional development opportunities) for the next generation of researchers.
- Incorporates a holistic perspective and involves inter-and multi-disciplinary collaboration with partners (preference intra-African) to leverage time, expertise, skills, materials, and resources and reduce duplication
- Articulates the potential to create impact both during and beyond the grant period
- Displays knowledge of associated recent or ongoing work on the continent.
- Defines a clear plan for disseminating research outcomes both inside and outside the scientific community
- Endeavours to open access publications (popular and scientific
- Does not present unacceptable ethical or safety risk
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead applicant should be:
- An early career scientist
- Applicant must already hold a PhD degree and should have no more than seven years of work and/or research experience post-degree (excluding time taken for family responsibilities).
- Have strong links to a credible African institution
- The institution should have a proven ability to manage to fund and subscribes to good financial grant practice and can be any of the following: academic institution, research institution, government institution, NGO, for-profit organisation
- An early career scientist
- Furthermore, the proposed research should be focused on or in Africa.
For more information, visit Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation.