National Research Foundation
Project Title
For documenting postdoctoral training models and convening regional stakeholders and postdoctoral fellows
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
39 months
Description
The Corporation’s Higher Education and Research in Africa (HERA) program has supported severalmodels of postdoctoral opportunities for early-career African academics across a range of disciplines and higher education contexts over the last decade. Demonstrating the institutional and societal impact of post-PhD training programs is essential to gaining support from university and government leaders. Another challenge is that postdoctoral fellows often conduct research in silos within their disciplines. With renewed Corporation support, South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) will conduct case studies of post-PhD training programs,convene postdoctoral fellows across transdisciplinary networks, and link the project to NRF’sScience Granting Councils Initiative, which facilitates the development of research funding agencies in seventeen African countries.
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For documenting postdoctoral training models and analyzing and disseminating results
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
55 months
Description
The Corporation’s Higher Education and Research in Africa program supports several different models of postdoctoral opportunities for early-career African academics across a range of disciplines and higher education contexts. To stimulate learning and draw lessons for others wishing to organize or support postdoctoral programs in Africa, South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) will organize convenings for project directors and conduct field research on the funded projects. For a wider picture, NRF will include directors and funders of other postdoctoral projects as appropriate. As part of the dissemination, NRF will link the project to the Science Granting Councils Initiative, supported by NRF and other funders, which facilitates the development of research funding agencies in fifteen African countries.
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Project Title
For a meeting on transformation in African higher education to meet twenty-first century demands
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
6 months
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Project Title
For a convening on expanding and sustaining excellence in doctoral training in sub-Saharan Africa
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
7 months
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Project Title
Toward a digitization and data preservation center
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
60 months