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Scholarships available for the 2019 ACDI Masters in Climate Change
The African Climate and Development Initiative has two scholarships available for 2019: one 1-year Coursework, and one 2-year Dissertation Masters in Climate Change and Development. Please see advert below for: ARUA-CD scholarship advert Coursework ARUA-CD scholarship advert Dissertation Closing date: 31 October 2018 No late, incomplete or inappropriate applications will be accepted. Please contact the course convener, Marieke Norton: marieke.norton@uct.ac.za
Postdoc opportunity: Exploring food systems transformations in Africa’s rapidly changing cities
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on African city food systems. The research forms part of an international collaborative project under the auspices of LEAP-Agri and includes researchers from South Africa, Uganda, Netherlands and Belgium. The project aims to promote sustainable and nutrition-secure city food systems by developing knowledge and tools for local and national development planning. The research will be undertaken in two case studies (Cape Town and Kampala) and includes: characterizing city food systems through identifying [...]
Available position: Apprentice Landscape Mobiliser position with Living Lands
The vision of Living Lands is ‘Collaborations working on living landscapes’, which encapsulates the building of relationships amongst landscape stakeholders, through a process of social learning, that ultimately leads to collective action towards a healthy and resilient landscape. This is done by means of employing a social change approach as a way to engage stakeholders. Research and trial experimentation form part of the knowledge created for supporting stakeholders’ decision making. They are currently a team of 20, with offices in the Baviaanskloof, Langkloof and Cape Town. They are [...]
Call for research proposals
BIG DATA AND TRANSBOUNDARY WATER COLLABORATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA APPLY FOR A SADC-WIDE RESEARCH FUNDING CALL! This is an announcement of a special research funding call that has been released and is live on the WRC website. Attached are the Terms of Reference and Proposal Application template that you may use to complete to respond to the call. Applications are open until: 30 September 2018 For more general programme enquiries please contact: Clara Bocchino - clara.bocchino@gmail.com OR Shanna Nienaber - shannan@wrc.org.za For technical ToR enquiries please contact: Shafick Adams - shaficka@wrc.org.za Please [...]
Call for Research Chair: Coupled Human-Natural Systems (CHANS) in Montane Environments as SES
The South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) and the Afromontane Research Unit (ARU; based on the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State) are calling for comprehensive expressions of interest from suitable candidates for a National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Coupled Human-Natural Systems in Montane Environments. The focus of the Chair will be to expand/refine the existing observatory protocol and research activities to develop a pragmatic, theoretical, and operational social-ecological framework that integrates multi-scale ecological, social observations and other sources of knowledge, and engages [...]