Deadline: September 20, 2024
Applications are open for the Afrobarometer Emerging Scholars Workshop 2024. As a pan-African survey research network, Afrobarometer is committed to building data collection, data analysis, and data use skills across the continent. They believe this will better enable African researchers, policy actors, and civil society representatives to play a more effective role in policy development and decision-making.
The Afrobarometer emerging scholars workshop aspires to bring together early career researchers and experienced academic mentors to build analytical capacity on the African continent and ultimately facilitate the production of analytical outputs that make use of Afrobarometer’s extensive open access datasets. The workshop will also serve to strengthen mentoring networks across research institutions in Africa while providing professional development opportunities for African researchers.
Workshop Structure
The programme consists of the following elements: paper presentations, professionalisation sessions, and roundtable conversations.
- Paper presentations: Successful applicants will be given an opportunity to present a paper or research design. Each presenter will have 10 minutes to outline their design, followed by 50 minutes of detailed feedback from a panel of experienced academic mentors and peers.
- Professionalisation sessions: Academic mentors will provide guidance in the form of a 45 minute-1 hour presentation on key aspects of building a successful career. The mentors will provide practical advice on various aspects of professionalisation within academia.
- Roundtable conversations: Each presentation will be followed by a roundtable conversation where mentors share their experiences in moderated, interactive question and answer sessions with the audience. These sessions are designed to allow speakers to share their perspectives on building an academic career and give emerging scholars an opportunity to ask questions and learn from mentors.
Costs
- Travel costs, accommodation, meals, and related expenses will be covered by the organisers. However, participants are responsible for all other costs related to their stay in Pretoria, including data for personal use, laundry, transportation, and entertainment.
Eligibility
- Open to early career researchers at PhD level (on condition that they have received a PhD within the last seven years) or who have taken up an academic (teaching or research) position in the past five years. The workshop will be open to scholars from a range of disciplines related to Afrobarometer data (e.g. political science, sociology, public health, education, human geography, linguistics, public policy, law, etc.).
- The workshop is intended for researchers who are currently making significant use of Afrobarometer data in their work. Applications will only be accepted from researchers with existing draft papers or a fully developed research proposal. Six to eight papers will be chosen for the workshop and a smaller number of research proposals will also be accepted.
- Participants will be selected based on competitive applications that should include either a draft paper or a research proposal written in English. Successful applicants will be required to present their work in English.
- Afrobarometer encourages young people, nursing mothers, and those living with disability to apply for this opportunity.
Application
For more information, visit Afrobarometer.
