Two interactive workshops funded by the British Academy will take place at the University of Lomé, Togo (25 and 26 June 2025) and Central University – Mile 91, Sierra Leone (30 June and 1 July 2025).
While the demand for higher education in Africa has increased tremendously in the past two decades, there is still limited comparable investment in capacity development of early career academics. The overall purpose of the two in-person interactive workshops is to provide a cutting-edge research training and development opportunity for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in West Africa.
The specific goals of the workshops are to:
- Equip participants with the mechanisms and tools to publish in international impactful peer-reviewed journals and write grant proposals.
- Provide personalised mentorship, and feedback on submitted manuscripts from experienced academics and journal editors.
- Provide participants with opportunities to network and collaborate with their colleagues, leading scholars and journal editors to produce impactful outputs over the period of two years.
- Provide follow-up and sustained support to participants for their submissions to international journals after the workshop.
The two intensive workshops will feature leading academics from the United Kingdom in collaboration with their distinguished counterparts in Togo, Sierra Leone and Ghana (see below for the full profiles of the organisers).
How to apply
We invite Early Career Researchers who have either completed their PhDs in the past 8 years or are near completion of their PhDs to apply for a place in this workshop. Less than 30 academics will be accepted to the program. Female Early Career Researchers are highly encouraged to apply.
To apply, you must meet the criteria below:
- Applicants must have completed their PhD within the last 8-10 years or close to PhD completion.
- Applicants must submit a full CV together with proposal/idea paper outlining the motivation for the study, the research question, the theoretical background, and the methodological approach – sources of data (maximum of 1500 words). The proposed /manuscript can be from any social science discipline (e.g., Finance, Management, Accounting, Marketing, Tourism, Sustainability, Public Health Management, International Business, Human Resources etc).
- We expect participants to submit one paper to an international conference and/or international journal at the end of the workshop.
Applicants must submit their proposal online before 15 May 2025 (by 17:00 GMT).
Submit Here