STIAS Iso Lomso Fellowship 2026 for African Scholars (Funding available) – YOA

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Applications are open for the STIAS Iso Lomso Fellowship 2026. Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing in the direction of the long run, laying the foundations for tomorrow. The programme is aimed toward African students who’ve obtained a doctoral diploma inside the previous seven years and who maintain an instructional place at a college or analysis establishment anyplace in Africa.

Iso Lomso fellowships present a 3-yr attachment to Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) to allow fellows to develop and conduct a protracted-time period analysis programme of their choice. The goal is to facilitate and assist them in the direction of changing into established students of their fields. The principal technique of assist is STIAS residencies. Residential intervals will likely be agreed mutually between the man, his or her home establishment and STIAS, and will differ between six weeks and 5 months per residency. A primary interval of residency will sometimes be of longer length to be taken up throughout 2027, adopted by two additional residencies by 2029.

Benefits

While in residence fellows obtain common STIAS fellow assist which incorporates:

• an financial system return flight;
• snug lodging inside strolling distance from the institute;
• particular person workplaces outfitted with a PC, phone and printer;
• a month-to-month stipend for day by day residing prices;
• entry to the Stellenbosch University library (together with digital sources) and a excessive-pace web connection;
• participation within the common STIAS fellows programme, together with day by day lunch, weekly fellows’ seminars, STIAS public lectures and social occasions;
• a child care subsidy for fellows accompanied by younger youngsters whereas in residence.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2026 name, candidates should:

• be a nationwide of any African nation;
• be born after the first of January 1984;
• have an affiliation at a analysis or increased schooling establishment in an African nation, and proceed to take action for the foreseeable future;
• have obtained a doctoral diploma from any recognised increased schooling establishment (worldwide) after the first of January 2018;
• have accomplished a put up-doctoral fellowship or equal put up-PhD analysis programme;
• be able to start a primary interval of residency at STIAS throughout 2027.

Selection Criteria

Applications will likely be evaluated and chosen on the premise of the next standards:

• Level: the applicant’s tutorial excellence and the originality and scholarly energy of the proposed analysis venture;
• Innovation: the venture’s promise of latest insights and the potential to supply new information;
• Interdisciplinarity: whether or not the venture methodology permits for drawing from totally different disciplines and its potential to facilitate an interdisciplinary discourse;
• Relevance: the venture’s relevance for scholarship and information manufacturing in Africa;
• Feasibility: whether or not the analysis design and the analysis plan are convincing and real looking.

During closing choice, extra consideration will likely be given to:

• gender illustration;
• range of nationalities;
• range of disciplines;
• participation in earlier or present analysis initiatives;
• earlier worldwide expertise.

Application

Shortlisted candidates could also be contacted throughout May 2025 for any extra info which may be required about their proposed initiatives. A closing choice will likely be made by the tip of May 2026 and profitable candidates will likely be contacted throughout June 2025.

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For extra info, go to STIAS Iso Lomso Fellowship.