Research and Training Institute on Womens Rights and Citizenship
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Brian Ward
RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP
Political Studies at Wits University and the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Programme at IDRC are pleased to announce a Research and Training Institute on Women’s Rights and Citizenship, to be held at Wits University from 4-16 August 2008. The aim of the Institute is to deepen the capacity of researchers to deploy feminist theories and methodologies in applied, policy-oriented research. The Institute has two components: a training institute (4-16 August, followed by a further week of training in November), and seed funding to develop fully-fledged research proposals in the area of women’s rights, citizenship and governance in sub-Saharan Africa .
We invite applications from research teams of 2-3 African researchers based in African institutions, and working in the area of gender, citizenship and governance.
Research teams could be flexible in composition, for example a mix of university-based and NGO-based researchers, a senior researcher with a PhD and two Masters/ Doctoral level students, or exclusively university or NGO-based. Research teams could also cut across more than one institution, for example two research centres. Ideally, we would prefer that the team consist of a senior researcher with a PhD and two young researchers with four-year or Masters degrees.
All expenses (travel, accommodation and meals, and course materials) will be covered by the Institute. Successful participants will be provided with seed grants of $10 000 to conduct baseline research and develop full research proposals by 30 November.
Interested researchers should contact Nurina Ally (Nurina.Ally@students.wits.ac.za) for a detailed application package and further information. The deadline for applications is Monday May 5 2008