ARUA Early-career Research Fellowships 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Applications are open for the ARUA Early-career Research Fellowships 2025. The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with help from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund as much as forty-two (42) early-profession researchers to conduct globally aggressive analysis on the host and affiliated establishments of ARUA’s 13 (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs).

Each fellowship will final six months, between July 2025 and June 2026. A most of 4 fellows might be assigned to every CoE, with all positions stuffed by December 2025.

Responsibilities

The key roles and duties of the analysis fellow are as follows:

• Work with different researchers to undertake varied related research on the Centre below the steering of an assigned mentor.
• Write and publish a minimal of 1 (1) tutorial paper (a collectively authored paper the place the man is the primary/lead writer could be acceptable) in a excessive-affect journal (at the very least, listed in Scopus or Web of Science), with an accompanying coverage temporary or weblog publish on the suitable platforms of the respective host establishment.
• Deliver at the very least two (2) displays and take part in technical workshops with fellow researchers and different stakeholders.
• Assist in creating and bolstering new partnerships between the respective Centre of Excellence and different related our bodies.
• Assist in disseminating analysis findings of the Centre.

Benefits

• Successful candidates might be contracted by ARUA for six months. The analysis fellowship shall present a month-to-month stipend of US$2,000, modest fee for lodging, and journey help (return ticket to host establishment). There are not any relocation bills. Additional monetary help is accessible for eligible girls who could require adjustment help (e.g., for childcare). The host CoE will present the analysis fellow with workplace area.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be African nationals who’ve a PhD in a self-discipline/sub-self-discipline associated to the thematic space of the Centre of Excellence.
• Applicants have to be inside 5 years of finishing their PhD.
• Applicants ought to be younger college (or analysis) members at an ARUA college. Female postdoctoral fellows might be thought of in restricted instances.
• The applicant shouldn’t be greater than 35 years outdated on the time of making use of.
• Applicants ought to have a extremely aggressive observe file related to the OPPORTUNITY and be keen to develop a robust worldwide standing and analysis popularity.
• Applicants have to be obtainable to spend 6 months away from their home college and have the ability to return to their home establishment.
• Applicant have to be engaged on an ongoing undertaking associated to the CoE and have available information to perform the principle roles and duties.
• Eligible girls are strongly inspired to apply. At least 70% of the fellowships might be awarded to feminine candidates.

Application

To apply for this analysis fellowship, submit the next paperwork:

• Cover letter outlining your causes for making use of for the place and particulars of how you’ll obtain the roles and duties of the place. This ought to embrace an outline of your expertise within the related area and the way you meet the eligibility standards. The candidate should specify the actual ARUA Centre of Excellence to which they’re making use of. If an applicant has beforehand hung out on the proposed CoE (e.g., as a pupil, postdoc, and so forth.), the duvet letter ought to embrace a motivation for the way this go to will construct on the pre-current relationship. Applicants must also define in the event that they require a visa to go to the host or an affiliated establishment of an ARUA CoE and, if that’s the case, what’s required and the estimated processing time.
• Full CV, together with applicant particulars (e.g., date of start, passport quantity, nation of origin, citizenship, and so forth.), particulars of doctoral diploma, {qualifications} obtained, analysis output, an outline of the applicant’s contribution in collectively authored publications, and particulars of two referees. In the case of shortlisted candidates, candidates might be required to ask the referees to submit a quick report assessing the applicant’s suitability for the fellowship. Referees shouldn’t be based mostly on the proposed host CoE.
• A Letter of Support from the applicant’s everlasting/home establishment, together with a sign of suitability for the place and that the candidate will return to the home establishment.
• Evidence of Award of PhD.
• A Brief Concept Note (max. 1,500 phrases, together with references) outlining your proposed analysis undertaking/plan and its alignment with the ambitions of the host CoE. Candidates who can display that they possess the required information or analysis supplies to help their function may have a big benefit.
• Two (2) tutorial writing: This shouldn’t be a chapter from a doctoral thesis. In the case of a collectively authored piece, you need to describe your contribution.

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For extra info, go to ARUA Early-career Research Fellowships.