The Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI) invites applications from scholars specialising in African feminist philosophies to join the African Gender Equality Research Group.
About African Gender Equality Research Group Program
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: February 03, 2025
- Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
- Category: Postdoctoral
- Eligible Locations: Africa
The initiative aims to bring together researchers across Africa to explore and critically engage with African philosophies, values, and norms within the context of global values. The researchers in the group will undertake innovative research and advocacy on African feminist philosophies, gender equality discourses, women’s empowerment and rights, decoloniality, and Indigenous knowledge on women’s empowerment.
This research group aims to address socio-cultural, political, and economic obstacles to gender equality and dynamics while fostering the exchange of ideas across Africa, and between Africa and other regions and continents. The group will host conferences to share research findings, aiming for roughly two events each year. The group’s scholars will actively participate in IGVI’s annual conference and contribute to the Journal of Global Value Inquiry.
Benefits of African Gender Equality Research Group Program
- The selected scholars will be appointed for a duration of four years and will receive a monthly stipend of 800 Euros.
African Gender Equality Research Group Program Requirements
- Researchers must be based in Africa and be employed by or connected to an African university.
- Applicants to the position must have a PhD or doctorate in philosophy or a cognate discipline within the humanities, and specialise in gender equality research, decoloniality, feminist philosophies, epistemologies and methodologies.
- Female feminist philosophers and scholars based on the African continent, particularly from anglophone West Africa, are encouraged to apply.
Application Date and Process
They should send the following documentsto [email protected] by 28 February 2025:
- A curriculum Vitae (CV) of no more than six pages.
- A list of publications.
- Three to five written documents containing results of research into values and norms (no more than five article-length works and no more than two book-length works).
- A summary of the candidate’s expertise in questions of gender equality (no more than six pages long).
- A short outline of a research proposal covering one or more of the thematic areas listed below (no more than two pages long).
Enquiries concerning this call for applications may be addressed to either the directors of IGVI, Anke Graness ([email protected]) and Valentin Beck ([email protected]) or the Senior Scientist in charge of the African Gender Equality Research Group, Constance Awinpoka Akurugu ([email protected]).
Application Deadline
28 February, 2025
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