Research School on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction 2025: Call for applications

  • March 24, 2025 By Vquartey
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Group photo of participants at the 2024 Research School, which brought together over 20 doctoral students from five universities.

The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana, and the Universities of Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala is organizing a Methodology and Field Studies in Development Research School for doctoral researchers in Ghana. The research school seeks to foster high-quality and boundary-crossing doctoral research in sustainable development by equipping students with advanced methodological skills to critically engage with and interrogate issues such as power, inequality, and governance in sustainable development research. The programme aims to:

  1. Equip participants with critical skills to conduct advanced research in sustainable development.
  2. Encourage critical engagement with the philosophical, ethical, and practical dimensions of field research.
  3. Foster interdisciplinary research and collaboration among young scholars in development research.

The four-day programme will be held at the University of Ghana from July 29th-August 1st, 2025.  

Doctoral students are invited from social science related disciplines across universities in Ghana to apply.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must be at the early stage of doctoral research
  • Must be in social sciences related field
  • Must be enrolled in doctoral programmes in a Ghanaian University.
  • Female doctoral researchers are encouraged to apply

How to apply:

Applicants should send an application package that includes the following information to the addresses below:

  1. Name and address
  2. Name of university
  3. Research topic
  4.  Resume which must include research topic
  5. Cover letter stating motivation for the application

Deadline for submission of applications: April 10th, 2025.

Note: There is limited funding to cover accommodation and meals, but participants will be expected to cover their own transportation.    

Please, submit your application package to the below email address:

Research School on Sustainable Development

Institute of Statistical, Social, and economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana

Email: researchschoolsdg@gmail.com