[lg policy] Scholarships at IFAS, South Africa

[Harold Schiffman]

Scholarships at IFAS, South Africa
Call for funding application 2011
Honours, Masters, Doctoral, Post-Doctoral students, Senior Researchers

IFAS-Research would like to remind research teams, researchers and
students in the Human and Social Sciences working on Southern Africa,
that all applications for the financing of research works, events,
field trips or publications for 2011 must imperatively reach us by
email only (research at ifas. org.za) before the 30th of November 2010.

All applications will be considered. However, research in line with
that of the Institute will be an advantage. As a reminder, we list
hereunder our four current focus areas. No conditions of nationality
apply. This call is therefore clearly intended to elicit projects from
researchers
from both Europe and Southern Africa. Beyond the themes indicated
below, Southern African researchers willing to submit projects of a
comparative nature (between Southern Africa and Europe) requiring
fieldwork in France are welcome.

The 3 essential eligibility criteria are:

* an existing or potential scientific partnership between France and
Southern Africa, and with Francophone countries when applicable;
if in doubt the applicants may contact IFAS to be put in touch with
researchers likely to collaborate with them
* an overall budget of less than 40 000 South African Rands or 4000 euros;
* financial participation from another institution (details of which
should be provided in the project).

*Focus areas : *

1. *Southern African Cities: Urban Dynamics and Governance*
Issues of security, privatisation of public services, local government
and the adoption of "best practice" models, participation, migration
and xenophobia, historical development of Southern African cities,
spatial justice and the right to the city.
2. *Democratic Transformation in the Region*
1. Mapping of electoral dynamics, party politics, republicanism;
2. Law and transformation : constitutional changes, protection of
minority rights, equity policies; human rights regime, refugee &
asylum regimes, citizenship and its transformation, challenges posed
by right of access to basic services;
3. Democracy and the media including the challenges of E-government
and digital democracy;
4. Education and transformation: school and nation-building processes,
language policy, higher education transformation, elite formation.
3. *Long Term Perspective on the History of People's Settlement in
Southern Africa*
Multidisciplinary knowledge of Middle and Late Stone Age; past and
current migration trends in the field of history, archaeology, rock
art, socio-anthropology, linguistics, current issues of
memory and the celebration of history in contemporary Southern Africa
4. *Comparative Developments Economics*
Formal/informal labour, economic policy development, governance,
effects of liberalisation on Southern African economies,
sector-focused studies, SADC-NEPAD – EU relations, critical and
comparative approaches to development economics, in particular to
sustainable development issues (such as environmental justice).

*Selection process of applications: *

* Deadline for applications : *30 November 2010*
* Pre-selection of applications and sending to the reporters of the
Research Advisory Comittee : mid-December 2010
* Feedback from the Research Advisory Committee members and validation
: end of January 2011

Responses will be sent to applicants by e-mail by mid-February 2011.

/Please note that financing of research projects will be granted with
the condition precedent that IFAS has enough allocated budget to this
end in the year 2011./

*[Application form
http://www.ifas.org.za/research/pdf/funding-application-2011.doc]

http://freestudiesabroad.blogspot.com/2010/11/scholarships-at-ifas-south-africa.html

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