Call for Applications for MIASA’s 7th Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop from 28-30 May 2024 at the University of Ghana
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10th March 2024
The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) invites applications for its workshop on Female Academic Careers in Africa which is organized from 28 to 30 May 2024 in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Paris (GHIP) and the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon campus.
MIASA is based on a cooperation between UG and four German partners (the University of Freiburg, Goethe University Frankfurt, the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, and the GHIP). The institute is located at UG, Legon Campus. The institute is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with co-funding from UG. This will be the seventh edition of MIASA’s Female Academic Careers in Africa workshop series.
This workshop welcomes early- and mid-career female academics who are affiliated in the Social Sciences and Humanities with universities or research institutes across the African continent. Applicants should hold a PhD. We are open to a broad range of disciplines and appreciate, in particular, applicants whose research is related to one or more of MIASA’s research themes (https://www.ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/research-profile).
The workshop offers time and space to discuss the challenges and opportunities for women in academia in African contexts. Participants from Ghana and other African countries will be accompanied by a professional coach through different modules that address (i) professional relationship constellations, (ii) power dynamics and individual roles, (iii) work-life balance and roadmap. The workshop focuses on the university environment and academic practice.
The coaching aims at assisting participants to define their own working and leadership style, but also to consider how to adapt oneself to different contexts and challenges. The overarching purpose is to encourage early- and mid-career female academics in Ghana and other African countries to further build up their careers, to develop strategies for keeping a work-life-balance that allows for prospering in one’s research and academic work, and to become ready for taking up leadership positions and/or seizing other professional opportunities. The workshop also includes a public roundtable for a larger audience.
The workshop will be run in English.
Workshop
This workshop welcomes early- and mid-career female academics who are affiliated in the Social Sciences and Humanities with universities or research institutes in Africa. Applicants should have a PhD. We are open to a broad range of disciplines and appreciate, in particular, applicants who work on one or more of MIASA’s main research themes (https://www.ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/research-profile).
African countries
Accra, Ghana
Not specified
MIASA covers travel costs for participants (economy class flight, only mandatory covid-19 tests, local transport, accommodation). Please consider the current Ghanaian travel protocols, which require full yellow fever and covid-19 vaccination.
28-30 May 2024
All candidates have to fill the online application form.
(All fields of the form must be completed. Then click on the button “Suivant” [=Next page] to get to the overview of your application and press “Submit”. Thank you.)
In addition, the following application dossier has to be sent as one PDF file to workshop-miasa@dhi-paris.fr, including:
All documents of this dossier have to be joined into one PDF file. The PDF file should be named as follows with your surname and given name: SURNAME_GIVEN.NAME_Female2024.pdf.
Applications which do not respect these formal requirements cannot be considered.
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