AfricaLics PhD Visiting Fellowship Programme (VFP) 2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 2, 2026

Applications are open for the AfricaLics PhD Visiting Fellowship Programme (VFP) 2027. The AfricaLics VFP goals to help African PhD college students working in Innovation and Development by strengthening their tutorial and analysis capabilities, bettering the standard of their dissertations, and getting ready them for careers in academia, the personal sector, or authorities and policymaking.

The AfricaLics VFP does this by growing the mobility and stage of publicity of the chosen PhD college students to worldwide data and analysis on innovation and improvement. The programme kinds part of the broader AfricaLics efforts to contribute to the event of a vibrant analysis neighborhood in Africa on this rising and extremely multidisciplinary discipline.

Benefits

• Return flight prices out of your nearest worldwide airport (economic system class) to Johannesburg and lodging in Johannesburg might be coated by AfricaLics by the Sida-supported RCS mission.
• A journey insurance coverage is issued along with the ticket and serves as medical health insurance throughout the fellowship interval. The medical insurance coverage supplied beneath the journey insurance coverage often solely covers minor illnesses that happen throughout your keep. Successful candidates who’ve a medical situation, are suggested to check if their very own medical health insurance works in South Africa and, if not, guarantee they improve their insurance coverage prematurely of their study go to.
• Living prices throughout the study go to to UJ are usually coated by a stipend amounting to roughly $600 per 30 days. This quantity ought to cowl all prices whereas in Johannesburg associated to dwelling bills and journey round Johannesburg together with to and from UJ campus.
• Costs for participation in joint programs and mentorship charges might be coated by AfricaLics. A small quantity of funds can also be accessible for college students to take part in a brief-course that’s deemed vital for his or her PhD research and never usually accessible of their home nation.
• The AfricaLics RCS mission will even cowl prices associated to the 2 face-to-face conferences between college students, home supervisors and mentors.
• If AfricaLics agrees to fund the three-month study go to to Johannesburg, the scholarship will solely cowl prices associated to the scholar’s go to. Any prices associated to accompanying spouses, kids, or others is not going to be coated.  The scholarship doesn’t cowl the prices of any further journey in South Africa that the scholar might want to undertake except as part of chosen and permitted VFP actions.

Eligibility

Applicants for the AfricaLics PhD visiting fellowship programme ought to:

• Be working actively on a topic related to innovation and improvement.
• Be enrolled as a PhD pupil at a college in Africa.
• Have ideally accomplished their first yr of research by December 2026
• Have a background (BSc, MSc and so forth.) in Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography, History or Development Studies. Applicants might also work inside the STEM (science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic) topics and even manufacturing, however from a social science perspective.
• Possess sufficient literacy in English (documentation could also be requested).

Selection Criteria

The college students are chosen by a rigorous evaluation course of utilizing the next standards:

• Focus and relevance: The application ought to display clear relevance to Innovation and Development research in Africa and to the rising AfricaLics analysis agenda. Applicants ought to present a transparent justification for his or her analysis and specify their analysis questions.
• A effectively-elaborated clarification of the theoretical and conceptual framework rooted in innovation and improvement research and with a transparent clarification on how this framework pertains to the analysis questions.
• Methodological readability and rigor (application reveals intention to handle all analysis questions with sufficient strategies; information sources and information assortment strategies are clearly defined and related for the analysis).

Application

Submit a short application of 1 web page/500 phrases explaining your background, motivation for making use of and anticipated outcomes of participation within the AfricaLics PhD visiting fellowship programme.

The following paperwork have to be submitted with the application:

• Brief define of present PhD mission, together with PhD coaching plans (max. 5 pages)
• Curriculum Vitae – CV (together with PhD programs attended thus far)
• Letter of help from the primary PhD supervisor confirming that the PhD pupil could have accomplished her/his improve/probation by the tip of December 2025 OR the explanation why the scholar is deemed appropriate for inclusion within the fellowship programme if this isn’t the case.
• Letter of help from the University Administration on the college the place the PhD pupil is enrolled
• Copies of educational certificates (copies of Bachelor and Master Certificates at the least)
• One writing pattern (article or chapter) from present PhD program

Applicants are NOT anticipated to submit a duplicate of their passport when making use of for the PhD visiting fellowship programme.  Successful candidates might be requested to deal with any visa points that could be related  with help from the AfricaLics Secretariat and UJ. Collection of non-public information might be saved to a minimal, and data obtained might be saved safely and won’t be used for every other functions.

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For extra data, go to AfricaLics PhD Visiting Fellowship.