AREF Research Development Fellowships 2017 - Deadline June 28 2017
Dear All,
The advert below refers:
The deadline is 1600 hours (GMT) on 28 June 2017.
The
Africa Research Excellence Fund announces its third call for
applications for AREF’s transformative Research Development
Fellowships. The Programme aims to enhance the research competitiveness
of emerging African researchers with leadership potential who are
working on important challenges for human health in Africa.
The
Programme scope includes a broad range of science disciplines and
health challenges. AREF is keen to attract more excellent proposals on
important neglected tropical diseases – in particular on chronic
ill-health and mental health – and in maternal, neonatal and infant
health.
The
Fellowship enables talented early-career researchers to develop their
own research ideas and specialist skills, to grow their research
relationships through collaboration and mentorship, and to work towards a
major research funding proposal. Think of the AREF Fellowship as a
stepping-stone to achieving competitive research funding and
opportunities in the future.
An
AREF Fellowship supports a developmental placement of three-to-nine
months in a leading research organisation in Europe or Africa with time
either side of the placement for preparation and follow-up.
The
maximum award is 40,000 GB Pounds. The length of the Fellowship and
actual amount awarded will depend on detailed and persuasive
justification provided by the applicant and the quality of the
engagement of their employing and host institutions.
Applicants
will need to demonstrate a credible, ambitious vision for their
research on a human-health challenge for Africa; and a transformational,
well-supported development plan that would be significantly enhanced by
the Fellowship.
Potential
applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their plans at an early
stage with their employing and potential host organisations – so that
the Fellowship can be a “win-win-win” for all three parties.
We
are keen to receive high quality applications from both women and men;
from diverse research disciplines – including social and economic
sciences, veterinary (“one health”) researchers and clinically-active
researchers; and from all the franco-, luso- and anglophone
low-and-middle income regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
New in 2017
Placements may be taken at a centre of research excellence anywhere in Africa, extending the scope beyond South Africa, or in Europe including the UK.
Eligibility has been extended from four to five years postdoc for scientists: i.e. Fellowship awardees will need to have been awarded their PhDs after 30 June 2012 and before 1 July 2017.
AREF has introduced a new Cost & Finance spreadsheet to assist you calculate and present credible information about your proposed budget.
Eligibility
To hold an AREF Research Development Fellowship, you will need to meet the following eligibility criteria;
1. be a national of a country in sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa;
2.
be a post-doctoral scientist with a PhD, with up to 5-years of active
research experience on 1 July 2016; or be a clinician with a
research-relevant Master’s degree and up to 3-years active research
experience;
3.
be working in an active research role at the time of applying, with a
guarantee of employment with a university or other legally established
research organisation based in sub-Saharan Africa for the duration of
your fellowship; and
4.
submit the required documentation, including declarations from your
home and host sponsors detailing how they and their institutions will
support your development as a researcher, if you receive an award.
5. In addition:
· We
welcome applicants who are already employed within a sub-Saharan
African research organisation, or who would be returning to a position
in such an organisation by the time they take up the AREF Fellowship
having worked in a research active role abroad.
· You
may still be eligible even if your employing organisation is outside
Sub-Saharan Africa provided that you have an appropriate honorary
contract in the subregion and you are based at least 70% of your time in
Africa.
· AREF’s
regulations do not yet permit the funding of Fellowships in South
Africa. This may change during 2017. If this might affect you, you
are welcome to ask us for an update.
We thank Dr Chidi Ugwu for the information.
best wishes
Prof Obinna Onwujekwe
Chairman: Senate Research Grants Committee
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