Call for Applications

Women's Rights and Citizenship Institute 2009, University of the Witwatersrand

Research and Training Institute on Women’s Rights and Citizenship, June 2009

Political Studies at Wits University and the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Programme at IDRC are pleased to announce a Research and Training Institute on Women’s Rights and Citizenship, to be held at Wits University from 22 June- 3 July 2009 and  22-29 November 2009.

Aim of the Institute: To deepen the capacity of researchers to deploy feminist theories and methodologies in applied, policy-oriented research. The Institute has two components: a training institute (22 June – 3 July), followed by a further week of training 22-29 November), and seed funding to develop fully-fledged research proposals in the area of women’s rights, citizenship and governance in sub-Saharan Africa.

 We invite applications from research teams of 2-3 African researchers based in African institutions, and working in the area of gender, citizenship and governance.

Research teams could be flexible in composition, for example a mix of university-based and NGO-based researchers, a senior researcher with a PhD and two Masters/ Doctoral level students, or exclusively university or NGO-based. Research teams could also cut across more than one institution, for example two research centres. Ideally, we would prefer that the team consist of a senior researcher with a PhD and two young researchers with four-year or Masters degrees. We particularly encourage women researchers to apply.
 
All expenses (travel, accommodation and meals, and course materials) will be covered by the Institute. Successful participants will be provided with seed grants of CAD10 000 to conduct baseline research and develop full research proposals by 31 October.

Interested researchers should contact Nurina Ally (Nurina.Ally@students.wits.ac.za) for a detailed application package and further information. The deadline for applications is Monday March 16 2009.