MIASA welcomes applications from excellent researchers to join the interdisciplinary fellow group In its third call for short-term fellowships. MIASA, established in 2018, serves as a hub for exchange, networking, and collaboration amongst leading researchers from Germany, Ghana, the African and European continents and beyond. Its main site is located on the beautiful campus of the University of Ghana at Legon (Accra), with a scenic secondary site in Dakar (Senegal).
Responsibilities:
- The IFG brings together a group of up to six fellows for a duration of four months.
- The group comprises both senior and junior researchers from Germany, Africa and the rest of the world.
- The group centers around a research question which necessitates the input of experts from different academic fields and backgrounds.
- The group will work on the joint topic by, among other activities, holding weekly colloquia and organizing a final workshop or conference.
- The group will be asked to produce working papers based on their work at MIASA.
- Members of the group will also be expected to contribute a guest lecture on a relevant postgraduate course.
Value:
- The successful applicants will become MIASA Fellows with all the corresponding rights and obligations for the requested funding period.
- The fellows’ salary costs will be met by MIASA and paid directly to their home institution.
- MIASA will provide accommodation and reimburse travel costs.
- Furthermore, all fellows will receive a monthly allowance of 400€.
- In addition, MIASA will provide a research cost contribution to fieldwork costs that fellows can apply for to support their research.
- The Institute provides its fellows with modern office space and an up-to-date infrastructure.
- Fellows have full access to all library services at the University of Ghana.
Eligibility:
- Eligible for application are junior and senior researchers from around the globe after completion of their PhD in a relevant discipline of the Humanities or the Social Sciences.
- Applicants must propose a research project that matches the research focus of the IFG on“The Governance of Energy Transitions in the Global South”.
Selection:
- The all-important selection criteria are the academic excellence of both the applicant and the project proposal.
- The fit of the proposed project with the IFG and the required experience and capability to conduct the research project will equally be taken into account.
- An international selection committee will be responsible for the selection of the fellows.
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