Catto MSC and PHD Scholarship for Africans.

The Centre of African Research, College of Edinburgh is happy to announce the provision of two full scholarships for appropriate candidates to check for an MSc in Africa and Worldwide Growth and subsequent PhD in African Research. Profitable candidates will begin their research in September 2021.
These scholarships have been designed as a mixed package deal to be able to allow those that might not really feel they’ve ample analysis expertise to embark on a PhD to get that grounding with an MSc. The MSc 12 months helps construct a bridge between undergraduate research and the PhD. We hope the mixed package deal of assist encourages some who might not have thought a PhD was in attain to re-consider. A key purpose of the scholarships is to diversify the students from the African continent who contribute authentic and vital analysis to African Research.

WORTH

• The Stephen Gordon Catto Charitable Belief will cowl full tuition charges in addition to a month-to-month upkeep stipend all through the one-year MSc and subsequent three years of Ph.D. examine.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, candidates should:

• Have acquired a superb undergraduate diploma (minimal of a excessive 2.1) within the social sciences from an accredited college in Africa (a Masters’s diploma achieved with distinction shall be a bonus).
• Not have beforehand acquired a level from a college outdoors Africa
• Be a citizen of, and be usually domiciled in, an African nation
• Exhibit dedication to learning for a PhD in African Research
• Exhibit management potential and intention to maximise the affect of their analysis.
• Have acquired a proposal to check for the MSc in Africa and Worldwide Growth and/or the PhD in African Research on the College of Edinburgh.
• Desire shall be given to these learning battle decision, elections, know-how, peace constructing and/or governance in African contexts, though the choice panel might take into account different areas within the area of politics and worldwide improvement.

DEADLINE: March 31, 2021.

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