Deadline: December 7, 2018
The Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) invites applications for a three-month (90 days) visiting fellowship at Leiden University (African Studies Centre) from April up to and including June 2019.
The ASC Leiden hosts visiting research fellows in the framework of the Leiden African Studies Assembly (Leiden ASA), a network for cooperation between Leiden based Africanists. Visiting research fellows use their time in Leiden for data analysis and/or writing, often on a joint project with one or more ASCL staff members and with Africanists at other institutes or faculties of Leiden University.
A visiting research fellowship is for a maximum of 90 days. Apart from the regular visiting research fellowship programme, the ASCL also offers a joint fellowship programme with the IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies).
Benefits
A research fellowship includes:
Research fellows are divided over three periods of three months each: January-February-March, April-May-June, September-October-November.
Eligibility
Applications from all academic disciplines are welcome. An application must include an element of collaboration with a researcher of the African Studies Centre Leiden and a researcher of another faculty/department of Leiden University. The output of that collaboration can be a joint seminar or workshop, a joint research proposal, or a joint publication.
In order to be eligible for a LeidenASA 90-day Visiting Research Fellowship, the applicant has to fulfill all of the following criteria.
He or she must:
In the assessment of applications that meet these requirements,
Application
Please complete application form below and send it, together with all required additional documents, to: [email protected]. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
Applications must be submitted in English or French. However, Visiting Research Fellows may pursue their research in any language(s) of their choice, in agreement with their ASCL/Leiden University counterparts.
For Francophone applicants, please be informed that French is not commonly spoken in the Netherlands.
Download the application form.
For more information, visit LeidenASA.