Deadline: the 20th of September 2023 | Queen Elizabeth Scholarship 2023-2024 for Early-career Women Scholars from West Africa
The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship 2023–2024 for Early-career Women Scholars from West Africa is now accepting applications. West African women in the latter stages of their PhD programs, postdoctoral researchers, and early career academics associated to institutions are all welcome to apply to the Wurin ta na yin rubutu – Her own room to write program, which runs until October 2024.
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This subsequent round of prizes will take place between April and October 2024, subject to the recipients obtaining visas. The two award lengths available to scholars are short-term awards (35–60 days) and mid-term awards (61–180 days). Postdoctoral fellows/researchers or early career PhD scholars must be employed at a West African institution; scholars must be enrolled for their PhD at a West African university.
Successful applicants will receive access to the Carleton library’s resources as part of the award. The scholars are required to take part in workshops that will improve their writing, publishing, data analysis, and grant application skills. The numerous presentations and lectures given by the Institute of African Studies (IAS), other departments, and neighborhood partners, as well as the scholars’ collaboration on research projects with their mentors, will also be advantageous to them.
Research Areas
Successful applicants’ research will fall under one of the following categories:
- Food systems that are climate-resilient
- Education and Science Global Health Democratic and Inclusive Governance Ethics in
- Development Research
- The price of sustainable inclusive economies
- Mobility costs, lodging costs, research placement costs, as well as travel and health insurance, are all covered by the scholarship money.
Eligibility
- Only female candidates are accepted.
- Those that are chosen will fall into one of the following categories:
- A doctoral researcher is someone who has finished all of their coursework and is working on their dissertation for their PhD.
- A person undertaking research after earning their PhD is known as a post-doctoral researcher. They often operate under the supervision of a lead researcher or principle investigator.
- Early Career Researcher – A PhD holder who has shown significant evidence of work as an independent researcher, has managed their own lab or research project for 4-6 years, or is employed in a degree-granting institution in a tenure-track position.
- The applicants must be a citizen from one of the following West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
Requirements
- When the research is over, the QE Scholar will be required to impart what they have learned to their home institution and community. They must also submit a Scholar Narrative Report and register with Universities Canada to join the QES-AS network. The institutional digital library of the IDRC will also include publications that come from the QES-AS. Additionally, scholars would be expected to maintain contact with one another and help develop a network of QE scholars.
- Each scholarship is built on the notion that the recipient must spend 30% of their time conducting research in order to get experience using their research talents to meet the needs of the partner organizations. The best candidates will be able to show that their research is in line with the IDRC’s areas of study and that their research plans are relevant to the fields of study of their mentors and placement partners. All applicants must be native speakers of either French or English. English is used in the majority of placements. There are some options for mentorship and placements in French, nevertheless. Faculty from Carleton who are serving as mentors for this scholarship are experts in a variety of fields and have access to networks of professionals. By utilizing the existing knowledge and placement relationship, they may thereby meet the research supervision needs of the chosen applicants. The candidates must provide their strongest matches for mentors and placement partners.
Application
Your application must be received by Wednesday, September 20, 2023.
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Queen Elizabeth Scholarship 2023-2024 for Early-career Women
