To solve today’s most pressing development and sustainability challenges, academics need to work with industry, government and the public to build trust, design appropriate solutions and scale their uptake.

Run by the Royal Academy of Engineering, supported by the Newton Fund and delivered in partnership with innovation agencies in six countries, the Engineering X Transforming Systems through Partnership programme will build engineering teaching, research and innovation capacity within partner countries' universities to collaborate with local stakeholders and UK academics in meeting local and global development challenges.

Call for Proposals

A call for grant funding proposals under this programme is now open and will now close on 30th November 2020 at 12:00 midday (UK time). Please read the two guidance documents carefully before starting your application. 

This fellowship is a unique position intended for new and recent PhDs who are African nationals working in the areas of mathematical sciences or fundamental theoretical physics. The goal of this initiative is to support the careers of young researchers who have a commitment to advance science in Africa. The fellowship will be for a fixed term of July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022.
Perimeter’s areas of strength include strong gravity, condensed matter theory, particle physics, quantum fields & strings, quantum gravity, quantum foundations, quantum information, mathematical physics and cosmology.

The Fields Institute supports research in pure and applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science, as well as collaboration between mathematicians and those applying mathematics in areas such as engineering, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, and economics and finance.

While research interests for the selected fellow may dictate either Perimeter or Fields as a home institute, they will be encouraged to spend time at both institutes.

Applicants should submit a covering letter, curriculum vitae, and a description of their research interests, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent on their behalf. Applications can be made through MathJobs.org . The annual deadline for applications to the Fields-Perimeter Africa Postdoctoral Fellowship is December 1 of each year . The covering letter should include a statement about the candidate’s interest in specific research programs at Fields or Perimeter, as well as names of faculty members at Fields, Perimeter, or Ontario universities with whom the candidate may be interested in working.

The Kahane Foundation invites applications for its project grants. These support projects focused on accessibility, migration and integration, and social mobility. Projects focused on Europe, Turkey, the Middle East or North Africa are given priority.

Individuals, and projects in the fields of culture, art, nature or sports, are not eligible. One application per organisation is permitted. Applications must be submitted in English.

This supports research on the regional political economy of the Middle East, East, South or Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America at the Niehaus Center. The fellowship is tenable for 10 months and includes salary, Princeton University benefits, a moving allowance, and a research fund worth USD 5,000.

Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is pleased to announce a new Research Ideas Competition to promote health, sustainability and equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The IDRC, a Canadian Crown corporation, funds research in developing countries to create lasting change on a large scale and supports local organisations in the Global South to generate the evidence that is relevant in their context. The IDRC is working with the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Faculty of Arts and Sciences to manage this competition and ensure scientific integrity, ethical oversight and inclusivity.
The goal of this competition is to inspire novel research ideas that aim to strengthen policy interventions, population health, environmental sustainability and/or health, gender and social equity in LMICs. These novel ideas are expected to deliver health and environmental co-benefits by addressing the interlinked nutrition and environmental challenges and knowledge gaps that impede shifts towards healthier and sustainable food systems. These ideas will promote a conceptual understanding of healthy and sustainable food systems and account for the practical realities of their implementation.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Tufts University, the University of Sheffield, the London Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, UK Aid and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through the Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme, invite concept notes for their career development fellowships. These support emerging leaders who are applying or validating new methodological approaches with mentors in ongoing research programmes related to agriculture, nutrition and health research in low- and middle-income countries. Indicative topics include the validation and application of methods and metrics to measure and analyse:

The British Academy and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office invite proposals for their call on education research in conflict and crisis – bilateral research chairs. This supports bilateral partnership research chairs delivering a programme of institutional strengthening on education research in conflict and crisis. The call will help to enhance the ability of researchers and institutions to analyse, research and evaluate education practice in areas of conflict and crisis while developing the body of researchers and research in such contexts.

The bilateral research chair application must be submitted by a named applicant in partnership with two named institutions, at least one of which must be from institutions in the Middle East, eastern Africa, western Africa, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Concept note submission by 31/12/2020

This workstream of the IMMANA programme is led by the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. It consists of annual rounds of 6 Fellowships each year. The application  portal will soon be open for the sixth round of funding. 

In each annual round, IMMANA will award six 12-month post-doctoral Fellowships to emerging leaders who are applying and/or validating new methodological approaches with mentors in ongoing research programmes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Fellowship includes a research stipend, a travel allowance, and an honorarium for each of the mentors.

Eligible candidates have completed a doctoral degree in any field related to agriculture, nutrition or health research and practice.  

Fellows conduct their research in Africa or Asia under the joint supervision of two mentors, one from the applicant’s current or previous employer or academic institution, and one from a host institution where the applicant proposes to advance their work.

Fellows are selected through a competitive process by the Independent Panel of Experts. The review process is also overseen by the IMMANA Steering Committee, comprised of members from FCDO, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UKRI, USAID and CGIAR’s A4NH programme.