Call for application
IFRA-Nairobi invites applications for fieldwork grants to support Masters, PhD and postdoc students who conduct research in social sciences and humanities in the East African region (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Eastern Congo).
IFRA will prioritize support to the following research themes :
– Elections in East Africa : Tanzania 2020, Kenya 2022
– Workers, Labour and Employment
– Refugees and the Humanitarian Governance
– Music, Art, Culture, and Heritage
– Decolonizing African Studies : Thinkers, Practitioners and Practices
– Gender and LGBT in Words and in Practice
– African Socialism, Pan-Africanism, and (Sub-)National Imaginaries
– The African City : Urban Inequality, Social (In-)Justice, and Slum Politics
– The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic
Beyond these priority research themes, grants may be given to non-priority project proposals when considered academically relevant.
Kindly send your application forms to info@ifra-nairobi.net by September 7th, 2020.
Feedback to all applications will be made shortly thereafter.
