Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Gender Institute 2017 – Dakar, Senegal

Application Deadline: 15th March 2018

Eligible Countries: African universities

To be Taken at (country): Dakar, Senegal

About the Award: Over the last two decades, CODESRIA has convened an annual gender institute to fortify efforts at integrating gender research and scholarship into the mainstream of social science in Africa. The overall objective of the gender institute continues to be to contribute to a greater awareness about gender issues in African social research milieus, the integration of gender analysis into social research undertaken in Africa, and the inclusion of gender approaches in the agenda of social science debates on methodology. Besides, the institute has served as a strategy to catalyze efforts by feminist academics in the universities to create space for women’s studies as a new epistemology in the study of the disciplines and challenge the prevailing androcentric view of society and culture. Ultimately, these efforts were not meant to be ends in themselves. They were part of the broader efforts to make universities in the continent much better and entrench them as critical spaces for the continent’s transformation.

Candidates submitting proposals for consideration as laureates should critically interrogate the outcomes of feminist and gender scholarship in connection to the broad debate on the role of higher education in social transformation; understood more generally as the radical and fundamental changes in society’s core institutions, the polity and the economy, with major implications for relationships between social groups or classes, and for the means of the creation and distribution of wealth, power and status. Proposals should more specifically interrogate issues revolving around trends in knowledge production and consumption, its content, quality, utility and demand for Africa’s transformation and its fit with regards to sustainable development concerns in Africa.

Type: Call for Papers

Eligibility: 

• Candidates submitting proposals for consideration should be PhD students or early career academics in the social sciences and humanities and those working in the broad field of gender and women studies.
• Scholars outside universities but actively engaged in the area of policy process and/or social movements and civil society organizations are also encouraged to apply.
• Africa-based academics and non-African scholars who are able to support their participation are also encouraged to submit proposals for consideration.

Number of Awards: The number of places available for laureates of this Institute is only twenty (20).

Durat   ion of Program: May 14-25, 2018.

How to Apply: Applications for consideration as laureates for the Institute should include:
1. One duly completed application form in a World format (see attached document in Program Webpage Link below);
2. An application letter indicating institutional or organizational affiliation;
3. A curriculum vitae;
4. A research proposal of not more than ten (10) pages, including a descriptive analysis of the work the applicant intends to undertake, an outline of the theoretical interest of the topic chosen by the applicant, and the relationship of the topic to the problematic and concerns of the theme of the Institute;
5. Two (2) reference letters from scholars or researchers known for their competence and expertise in the candidate’s research area (geographic and disciplinary), including their names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses;
6. Copy of the Applicant’s passport.

All applications should be sent by email to: gender.institute@codesria.sn .

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Award Providers: CODESRIA