Ann Stroud Memorial Scholarship

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Ann Stroud Memorial Scholarship: The Ann Stroud Memorial Scholarship was established to support young African researchers in stepping beyond disciplinary boundaries or professional standards that limit the ability of research to serve rural African communities.

This scholarship is for postgraduate students wishing to conduct their thesis research in collaboration with World Agroforestry Centre scientists. The scholarship is tenable at any university in Eastern Africa (countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Rwanda). The upper limit for the support is USD 5,000 to cover field research and thesis production.

Eligibility

Be a national of Eastern Africa involved in agroforestry research, education or development.

Candidates must be 35 years of age or less.

Be registered for a postgraduate degree at a recognized university (evidence required).

Have completed or be close to completing coursework for the graduate degree for which s/he is registered.

Conditions

It is assumed that candidates will have other grants to meet their tuition and other expenses related to the studies.

The grant will be used to cover expenses arising from field research (including travel), laboratory analysis and thesis production.

The thesis research will be jointly supervised by the university where the applicant is registered. Each institution will appoint a suitable supervisor.

Supervisors will receive a travel grant (where justified) to meet once. The travel grant shall not exceed USD 1,500. This shall be additional to the USD 5,000 given to the student.

Applicants will strictly abide by World Agroforestry Centre Policy Guidelines on Research Ethics.

Selection process

All applications should be sent to the address below. The selection process involves announcements, proposal review, and selection of grantees by a small panel of World Agroforestry Centre senior staff.

Requirements

Fill in an application form.

A letter of recommendation from employer/ institution.

A three-page concept note (relevant to the proposal guidelines criteria identified below).

Certified copies of certificates

Up-to-date CV

Two recent passport size photographs

Evidence of registration for a Masters Degree course

Proposal guidelines criteria

Research derives from the expressed needs of poor farmers and resource users and in turn empowers them to make the decisions that matter to them.

It should aim to achieve "triple wins" to livelihoods, equity, and the environment.

Projects seek to enhance synergies between two or more disciplines (preferably linking the social and biophysical sciences), levels of analysis and intervention (from community level upwards), or strategies (technological, policy, social and/or market innovations).

Work challenges the status quo in thinking, policy and/or practice.

Projects incorporate action research and/or seek to address problems in innovative ways.

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