3 PhD scholarships at University of Bayreuth

The Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) at the University of Bayreuth in Germany offers three fully funded PhD
scholarships beginning 10/2014 in the following research areas:

– Culture and Technology in Africa
– Media in Africa
– Development Economics in Africa

The successful candidate in the area ‘Culture and Technology in Africa’ will be supervised by me – please feel free to get in touch with inquiries via uli.beisel@gmail.com. I particularly welcome applications on questions of (renewable) energy and energopolitics in Africa. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in this area, but do not have a concrete research proposal yet, please also get in touch with me as there may be an opportunity to link your PhD topic to a developing research project.

Applicants must have an excellent Master’s Degree. Applications may be sent in German, English or French.
The working language of BIGSAS is English.

The online application portal is available at: www.bigsas.uni-bayreuth.de/en/phd_programme/application/index.html

*Deadline: 15 May 2014*

Applications from the African continent will be pre-selected by the six Partner Universities after the initial formal screening at the
University of Bayreuth. The interviews of pre-selected candidates will also take place at these Partner Universities:
Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa