POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW – AGING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to conducting high quality and policy relevant research on population, health, education and development issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. APHRC seeks to recruit a Post-Doctoral Fellow to work under its Aging and Development Program.

ILRI Research Fellowship – Veterinary Public Health/ Microbiology

Project: Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Ecosystems, livestock/wildlife, health and wellbeing
Location: Kenya (Nairobi)
Duration: Until December 2014, starting October 2014

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. Part of the CGIAR Consortium.

TWAS-icipe Postgraduate Fellowship Programme

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya, and TWAS offer three fellowships per year to young scientists from developing countries (other than Kenya) who wish to undertake their PhD studies in Kenya.

2015 AWARD Fellowships

African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is calling for applications for its 2015 fellowships.

Postdoctoral Fellow – Participatory Action Research

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Fellow to support the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) participatory research activities across East Africa, including coordination of the flagships research activities in the region with CGIAR centres.

ILRI MSc Research Fellowship

Project: Sustainable small ruminant breeding programs for “climate smart villages”
Location: Kenya (Nairobi)
Duration: 6 months, starting between July and August 2014

Postdoctoral Molecular Immunologist

The International Livestock Research institute (ILRI) is seeking to recruit a highly motivated postdoctoral molecular immunologist who will play a crucial role in a project on African Swine fever vaccine development combined with leading the development of a program on porcine immunology as it relates to antigen identification and evaluation of novel vaccines at ILRI. This will make use of the new ILRI enhanced BSL2 level experimental pig unit and adjacent modern laboratories, including virus isolation facilities at ILRI. The project is funded by the German Ministry for Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

RUFORUM Graduate Scholarship for MSc in Research Methods

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is offering a limited number of graduate scholarships for MSc in Research Methods hosted at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya for the academic year 2014/2015.

Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund 2014 Research Fellowships

The Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF), managed by the BecA-ILRI Hub, provides fellowships to scientists and graduate students from African national agricultural research organisations and universities to undertake biosciences research-for-development projects at the BecA-ILRI Hub.

TWAS-icipe Fellowships for Visiting Scholars in Kenya

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, and TWAS offer one fellowship per year to visiting scholars from developing countries (other than Kenya) who wish to pursue advanced research in natural sciences.

2013 Commonwealth Scholarship – Kenya

The Commonwealth Scholarship Fellowship Plan invites applications from citizens of Commonwealth countries to apply for two-year master’s degree programmes at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, for the next academic session.