The Royal Academy of Engineering, via the Global Challenges Research Fund, invites applications for its Africa catalyst – capacity building of professional engineering institutes. This aims to strengthen professional engineering bodies in sub-Saharan Africa so that they can effectively promote the profession, share best practice and increase local engineering capacity to help drive development. 

Applicants must be non-profit professional engineering institutions or HEIs based in sub-Saharan Africa. 

The following grants are available to fund catalyst projects:

- two small grants worth between £30,000 and £70,000 over one year;
- two medium grants worth between £80,000 and £160,000 over two years;
- two large grants worth up to £300,000 over three years.

icipe is seeking to recruit a suitable candidate to fill the position of Research Entomologist (Cropping Systems, Landscape Ecology and IPM) in the Plant Health Theme. The position is tenable in Nairobi at the icipe Duduville Campus, and is available to commence immediately. This is a two-year contract, with a possibility of extension after completing a six-month probation period of the first contract. A competitive and generous compensation package that includes housing and transport allowances, child education allowance up to university first degree, comprehensive health and life insurance cover, and an offshore retirement package (all payable in US Dollars), will be offered to the right candidate. Furthermore, the incumbent will receive paid annual vacation, return airfare for themselves and their dependents to their nominated home base each year, and duty-free privileges. If the successful candidate is appointed from outside Kenya, he or she will be offered support to relocate and settle in Nairobi. Qualified candidates from Africa (and especially females) are invited to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.

HISTORY ACCESS is pleased to offer at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape
Town:

- 2 three-year PhD scholarships, each to the value of the annual amount of ZAR
125, 000, the second and third year of funding being subject to satisfactory
academic progress;
- 3 two-year Master’s scholarships, each to the value of the annual amount of ZAR
95, 000, the second year of funding being subject to satisfactory academic
progress; and
- 4 one-year Honours fellowships, each to the value of ZAR 85, 000.

The Kenyan government and Germany’s academic exchange programme DAAD have agreed to renew a partnership to offer PhD training to Kenyan lecturers.

The programme will offer training for 21 Kenyan teaching staff working in local universities. Successful candidates will go to Germany for up to 45 months to complete their training at a local institution. Interested applicants need at least a masters degree, which they must have completed within the last six years. They will also need to spend an additional six months in Germany to learn the language before embarking on their studies.

The deadline for applications is 31 October.

We are pleased to announce a £10 million call for collaborative proposals to address research challenges relating to the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Proposals must be led by a Principal Investigator (PI) in the UK, but may include Co-Investigators (Co-Is) in Africa and this is strongly encouraged.

Application deadline: 8 November 2017, 16:00 (GMT)

Venue: Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Department of Economics and International Business (EIB) of Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, will be hosting a mini conference in Cambridge, United Kingdom from 23rd to 24th November 2017. We wish to take this opportunity to invite you to submit an abstract or research idea/paper for presentation and discussion at the conference. The emphasis of the conference will be on high-quality, theoretical and/or applied research topics focusing on issues relevant to emerging trends in Economics, International Business, Finance and development which have special relevance to developing countries and/or Africa’s development. The conference will focus (not exclusively) on the following:

Sub-themes
Property economics and finance, Emerging Stock Markets Research, Microfinance, Construction Economics, Development Economics, Agricultural Finance. Export Finance, Insurance Finance in Africa, Growth of Mobile Banking in Africa, Institutional and Labour Economics, Emerging Banking Research, Accounting and Regulatory Issues in Africa, SME Finance, FDI and Portfolio Investment in Africa, Financial Risk Management in Emerging Markets, Financial Inclusion, Credit Risk Analysis, Retail banking in Africa, Other areas of Development, Finance and Economics

DEADLINES: Submission of abstracts/ideas – 30th September 2017

CO-ORDINATION
All abstracts, research ideas and questions to be addressed to
Dr Noah Karley,
Senior Lecturer in Economics,
Tel: +441223695739
Email: noah.karley@anglia.ac.uk

A new partnership has been formed between EDCTP, TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases), and the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) in recognition of a mutual interest in strengthening the capacity for health research in African countries. Collaboration between these three partners has been realised through a recently launched call “Joint WHO-AFRO/TDR/EDCTP Small Grants Scheme for implementation research on infectious diseases of poverty”, which will close on 30 November 2017.

This scheme provides junior researchers from low- and middle-income countries with the opportunity to gain research experience and training at Master's degree level. The scheme aims to support research that will improve public health and tropical medicine at a local, national and global level.