With funding from the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung Foundation, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to admit 10 students for the 2020 intake of the Inter-disciplinary PhD in Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.
Application Deadline: 27th March 2020
Eligible Countries: African Countries
To Be Taken At (Country): Uganda
About the Award: The programme is by research and focuses on interdisciplinary topics in the Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. This includes a cluster of subjects (disciplines) that study human society with a particular sensitivity to change over time, historical context, and the development of various kinds of evidence to support analyses about the causes, characteristics, and implications of such changes in human society.
The Inter-disciplinary PhD by Research is reconfigured as a research agenda with an explicit intersection between Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.
Preference will be accorded to projects that approach the study of the Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences with a clear and strong historical bias and/or focus in the following fields:
Type: PhD
Eligibility: Research experience in the Humanities and Social Sciences at a University or a Research Institute and a strong foundation in writing and research methods is desirable. The applicant should have excellent oral and written communication skills. This is a PhD by research; therefore, applicants should demonstrate capacity for independent work. They should also have excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
Eligible candidates should:
Number of Awards: Ten (10)
Value of Award:
Duration of Program: 3 years.
How to Apply: The completed application form, together with copies of all the supporting documents should be submitted by Friday, 27 March 2020 to:
The Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, P.O BOX 7062 Kampala
Tel: +256414531909
Email: graduate.college@chuss.mak.ac.ug with copy to principal@chuss.mak.ac.ug
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