AREF Call for Applications: Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme
The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) is inviting applications for the “Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme”. The programme works to strengthen the health research capacity of scientists in Africa who are engaged in tackling the continent’s significant health challenges.
AREF welcomes applications for this Workshop from researchers who are actively working on challenges to human health and are trained and experienced in one or more of the following disciplines: biomedicine; physiology and pharmacology; clinical sciences; epidemiology; mathematics and statistics; environmental health; “one health” (veterinary science); behavioural, social, and economic sciences; and health policy and systems research.
Date:
- Monday to Friday 9 – 13 October, 2023: daily 3-hour on-line sessions, 09:30 – 12:30 BST
- Monday to Wednesday 27 – 29 November 2023: daily sessions 3-hour on-line sessions, 09:30 – 12:30 BST
Place: Online via Zoom
Eligibility:
- You are a citizen of a country in Africa
- You are in the early stages of your research career, having completed your research education
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EITHER
- you have been awarded a research doctorate (PhD/DPhil/MD) from a recognised academic institution normally within the previous 6 years, (i.e., awarded on or after 1 January 2017);
- OR you have a medical/clinical qualification PLUS a research-relevant master’s degree, both awarded normally within the previous 6 years (i.e., awarded on or after 1 January 2017).
- AND you are currently employed in Africa by a recognised university and/or specialist research institution.
- You have not participated already in equivalent proposal development / grant-writing training.
- A significant part of your current employee role is to develop and conduct health research.
- You do not already have a significant portfolio of international research grants (Combined value of £250,000 or more).
Read more here.
Application deadline July 16, 2023.
