{"id":1893,"date":"2012-02-07T00:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T00:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2012-02-15T05:39:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:39:45","slug":"upeace-idrc-phd-doctoral-research-awards-and-phd-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"UPEACE-IDRC PhD Doctoral Research Awards and PhD Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Africa Programme of the University for Peace (UPAP) has secured funding from the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) to build research capacity in Africa in\u00a0 Governance and Security Studies. This research grant cycle is a second one received from IDRC after the first one that UPEACE received in 2007 and that focused on developing research capacity in Peace, Conflict and Development.<\/p>\n

The present grant comes from two programs within IDRC, the Fellowships and Awards Program (F&A) and the Governance, Security and Justice Program (GSJ).<\/p>\n

Support from the two programs will enable UPEACE Africa programme to train a total of 30 PhD candidates registered with universities in Sub Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

The first category is composed of Doctoral research awards. Candidates in this category are PhD candidates who\u00a0 are registered at universities in Sub Saharan Africa and have completed the required course work and\/or other\u00a0 preliminary doctoral requirements as instructed by their universities. They would be in the phase of doing their field work, analyzing their data and writing their thesis. A total of 26 doctoral research awards will be granted during this project.<\/p>\n

The second category of PhD fellows is composed of PhD students who have freshly registered at universities in sub Saharan Africa and are at the very beginning of their studies. The project will grant a total of\u00a0 four (4) fellowships.<\/p>\n

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS<\/strong>
\n2012 UPEACE-IDRC PHD FELLOWSHIPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS<\/strong>
\n2012 UPEACE-IDRC DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARDS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Deadline:\u00a0February 28, 2012<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong>For details on how to apply\u00a0for a\u00a0doctoral research award or fellowship, consult the\u00a0UPEACE Africa Programme website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Africa Programme of the University for Peace (UPAP) has secured funding from the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) to build research capacity in Africa in\u00a0 Governance and Security Studies. This research grant cycle is a second one received from IDRC after the first one that UPEACE received in 2007 and that focused on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}