The Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation of
the Sokoine University of Agriculture, in collaboration with the University of
Copenhagen, Denmark hereby invites interested and qualified citizens of
Tanzania (holding MSc degree or equivalent) to submit applications for 2 PhD
scholarships related to the Danida financed project ‘Science and Power in
Participatory Forestry’ (SCIFOR).
Students will be enrolled at both the Sokoine
University of Agriculture and University of Copenhagen, with a possibility of attaining
a double degree.
The scholarships are of three years duration, and
will commence on July 1, 2014. The PhD scholars will be supervised by a joint
team of senior academics from the Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation
and University of Copenhagen, and will be provided PhD level training in both
university environments. The PhD study and research will be closely integrated
and coordinated with all the other activities in the SCIFOR project.
The overall goal of SCIFOR is participatory
forestry planning and management practices that support equitable,
environmentally sound, and economically rational forest management. The project
involves investigations of management planning practices and outcomes in
forests managed under Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania.
The 2 scholarships come with different
requirements:
- The
PhD scholarship #1 entitled ‘Forest management planning,
participation, and power in participatory forest management’ involves
a case study aimed at understanding the role of management planning, i.e.
preparation of the legally required operational plan in (i) shaping
participation and inclusion in decision-making and benefit-sharing and
(ii) informing actual forest management practices at the community level.
- The
PhD scholarship #2 entitled ‘Forest management planning and
conservation in participatory forest management’ focuses on
understanding the role of forest management planning in shaping
conservation outcomes of community forestry, and thus involves forest
inventories and remote-sensing analyses to document past and present
forest condition, as well as participatory mapping and interviews to
understand the knowledge used in forest management at community level.
The aim is to synthesize the research results from
Tanzania with the results of similar studies that will be carried out in Nepal
under the auspices of SCIFOR.
Deadline
for application January 10, 2014 at 10.00 AM East Africa Time (EAT). Short-listed
candidates will be invited to prepare a full research proposal and to present
this at an interview session in late March 2014.
