American Political Science Association (APSA) MENA Workshop 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 14, 2025

Applications are open for the American Political Science Association (APSA) MENA Workshop 2026. They invite early-profession students who want to take part in a 4-day in-particular person workshop that examines the theme of participatory and engaged analysis within the MENA area.

Organized in partnership with the Doha Institute (DI), this system might be held from January 5-8, 2026 at DI in Doha, Qatar. The workshop is part of a multi-12 months effort to help political science analysis amongst early-profession students within the MENA area and to strengthen analysis networks linking Arab students with their colleagues abroad.

Cost

• The organizers will cowl participation prices, together with journey, lodging, and supplies for as much as 20 certified candidates.

Eligibility

• Open to superior doctoral college students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-profession students (those that obtained their PhDs throughout the previous 5 years), in addition to early-profession PhD holding practitioners who’re residents of nations within the MENA area. The program is tailor-made for students in political science and different social science disciplines—together with peace and battle research, worldwide research, improvement research, and adjoining fields—enterprise analysis that seeks to consciously make use of participatory and engaged analysis strategies within the MENA area, significantly these engaged on tasks that use in-nation fieldwork, depend on unique knowledge assortment, and discover methodological, moral, and sensible challenges of social science analysis in utilized settings.
• Priority might be given to students presently based mostly at universities or analysis institutes within the area.
• Professional fluency in English is required.

Application

Applications have to be in English and embody:

• The accomplished online application form.
• An in depth current Curriculum Vitae/resume.
• For superior graduate college students and early-profession students: a analysis assertion (2,000 phrases most) describing the work-in-progress you intend to debate on the workshop. This assertion ought to define your analysis query(s), a short literature evaluate, the strategies used and/or your plans for knowledge assortment/fieldwork, the challenge’s (anticipated) contribution(s) to the sphere, and the way it pertains to the workshop theme(s). The analysis challenge shouldn’t be any part of a co-authored challenge and shouldn’t be an excerpt from a piece that’s already accomplished or accepted for publication. Research tasks presently in-progress (i.e., on the proposal stage, knowledge assortment/evaluation stage, or writing stage) might be accepted. Submissions could also be derived from a dissertation challenge if it suits the workshop theme.
• For PhD-holding practitioners: a canopy letter (most 1,500 phrases) describing your motivation to attend this system, present analysis pursuits and methodologies, and the way this coaching will profit your skilled improvement and/or future analysis plans. If relevant, embody an outline of your present or deliberate utilized analysis challenge(s), outlining the analysis questions, strategies employed for knowledge assortment, and the way your work aligns with the workshop themes.
• One letter of reference on official letterhead and scanned as digital file. If you’re a graduate pupil, the letter needs to be out of your dissertation/tutorial supervisor. If you’re a postdoctoral fellow, college member, or a PhD-holding practitioner, the letter might come from a former dissertation supervisor, a colleague at your home establishment, a college official, or an employer.

Supporting paperwork could be uploaded with the application supplies or despatched on to [email protected].

For extra info, go to APSA Workshop.