Jobs & Opportunities

This page provides information on jobs and opportunities currently available of interest to our members. Please contact the organisations directly via the contact information given, rather than address any queries to the DSA.

Global Environmental Justice: Towards a New Agenda?
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: March 19th 2010.

The Global Environmental Justice Group at the University of East Anglia will hold a workshop to explore the key global justice dimensions of natural resource and environmental issues in Norwich on July 2-3, 2010. Keynote presentations will be given by Julian Agyeman, Paul Robbins and Joan Martínez Alier.

We are requesting proposals for empirically grounded papers that examine the global justice dimensions of particular resource problems and with reference to particular theoretical approaches. We are particularly interested in analyses located at the interface between political ecology, governance and environmental justice originating from a range of disciplines (including Development Studies, Geography, Political Science and International Relations).

Please submit paper proposals of up to 300 words to Peter Quinn (P.Quinn@uea.ac.uk). Further details can be found at www.uea.ac.uk/dev/gej.

African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Fellowships
APPLICATION Deadline: March 22nd 2010.

African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), a project of the CGIAR Gender & Diversity Program, is now accepting applications for its 2010 fellowships.

AWARD offers tailored, two-year fellowships designed to fast-track the careers of African women scientists and professionals delivering pro-poor agricultural research and development that benefits rural communities, especially women.

The AWARD Fellowships include a series of career development resources designed to:

• strengthen science/professional skills;
• augment leadership abilities;
• enhance visibility and networking; and
• increase opportunities to share newly acquired skills, inspiring the next generation of African women agricultural researchers and professionals.

The fellowships are open to African women working in agricultural research and development from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia who have completed a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in selected disciplines. Applicants must be nationals of the above listed countries and be available in Africa throughout the fellowship period.

Further information on the AWARD fellowships here.

Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF).
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: March 31 2010.

In collaboration with CIDA, the Rural Poverty and Environment team (RPE) is happy to announce the launch of two calls as part of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF).

A limited, competitive call for proposals from organizations already working on research in partnership with each other. The deadline for submission of proposals for this call is March 15, 2010.
An open, competitive call for concept notes, which may come from existing or new partnerships. The deadline for submission of concept notes is March 31, 2010. 
Further details about these calls is available on the CIFSRF website. 

UK Department for International Development (DFID)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: To be confirmed

Call for Submissions for Systematic Reviews
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is piloting an exciting systematic review project that aims to strengthen evidence-informed decision making. DFID has developed a set of systematic review questions based on policy and practice priorities and is now calling for proposals from interested reviewers to conduct a systematic review.
 
Effective health care discussed on ABC Radio National, Australia
Award-winning journalist, Norman Swan, recently interviewed researchers and clinicians at a symposium on Evidence Based Health Care, hosted by the South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre, a partner of the DFID-funded Effective Health Care RPC.

Graduate Institute for International Development Studies
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Deadline: 31 March 2010 for the Autumn Semester
31 October 2010 for the Spring Semester

The Graduate Institute is an institution of research and higher education dedicated to the
cross-cutting study of international relations and development issues.

The Global South Scholar-In-Residence Programme
This programme aims at developing an intellectual exchange between academics from
Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Institute’s faculty. Three candidates per semester
will be selected to spend one semester at the Institute in order to take advantage of the
programme to update their teaching curricula, participate in teaching courses, further
their research projects and contribute to enriching the intellectual life of the Institute.
Priority will be given to university teachers – with a preference for women and junior
academics – who will seek to apply the benefits of their stay at the Institute upon
returning to their own institutions.

Land Deal Politics Initiative Small Grant Competition
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Deadline: April 15th 2010.

The ‘Land Deal Politics Initiative’ (LDPI) is initially a joint effort of Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) at Saint Mary’s University in Canada (Saturnino ‘Jun’ Borras Jr. – the LDPI international secretariat), the Future Agricultures Consortium at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex (Ian Scoones), PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape (Ruth Hall), Resource, Environment and Livelihoods (RELIVE) at the
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands (Ben White)
and the Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University (Wendy Wolford).

We are currently running a small grant competition aimed at doctoral or post-doctoral researchers. E-mail your application to landpolitics@gmail.com. We especially urge researchers from Africa, or those working on African cases, to enter. Successful applicants will receive grants of up to US$2000 per study. More Information here.

IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD2010)
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: April 2nd 2010.
Date: Dec 13-16 2010, at the UNESCO Chair/Centre in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

The conference is the latest in the series of highly successful international ICTD conferences held in Doha (2009), Bangalore (2007) and Berkeley (2006) and the first time ICTD is held in Europe. It aims to provide a global and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of information and communication technologies in development practice to meet to discuss the latest research advances in the field.

Building on the success of its predecessors, ICTD2010 will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions, with two days of workshops, panel sessions, discussion fora and demos.

Enquiries: programme@ict4d.org.uk