Deadline: 28th February 2025
The Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI) invites applications from scholars specialising in African feminist philosophies to join the African Gender Equality Research Group. 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
The selected scholars will be appointed for a duration of four years and will receive a monthly stipend of 800 Euros.
Eligibility
- 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 Process
- 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).
They should send the following documents to info@igvi.org by 28 February 2025:
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