IFRA-Nairobi: Call for Applications for Fieldwork Grants

The French Institute for Research in Africa exists to promote research in all the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences within East Africa. It has a strong tradition of research in geography, political science, anthropology and history. In addition, it opened up to archaeology recently.
IFRA-Nairobi is currently inviting masters and doctoral students for its Fieldwork Grants (2017-2018) to conduct their research between (2017-2018) in one of the five East African countries covered by the Institute: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda.

Deadline
1 November 2017

Themes
IFRA’s main research themes include:

Political Dynamics
-Culture and Society
-Economy
-Land Issues

Topics
The following topics are IFRA’s priority areas:
-Elections in Kenya (2017): mobilization, devolution, culture & technologies
-Violence & security: police violence, daily security practices
-Informal trade and rural-urban linkages
-Social inequalities, morality and authority

Application
The duly filled application form must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Fieldwork Grants (2017-2018).
Note: All applications will be reviewed and that some of the grants will be given to students of non-priority topics.