Please forward to any academic networks you know (especially non-OECD
countries if they want bursaries).
Nigel
The Participation, Power and Social Change Team at the Institute of
Development Studies, UK, will host six Visiting Fellows (VF) during July 2009,
as part of a programme of work on Participation and Development Relations
(PDR), funded by the Swedish International Development Agenda (Sida) and Swiss
Development Co-operation (SDC). The VFs will spend two to four weeks during
July in IDS writing up a piece of work that addresses the PDR programme’s core
themes of power and social change, with a particular focus on questions of
masculinity and heteronormativity. These may be published as IDS Working
Papers, or as contributions to ongoing collective publications. Exchanges will
also be organised between the VFs and with IDS, including lunchtime seminars.
In order to apply you must:
·
Have something to say on one or more of the above issues.
We are hoping to give people engaged in exciting activism or progressive work
an opportunity to write up a story which they would not otherwise have time or
space to document. You could write about a struggle, a project, your recent
research, your own life. This may be a piece you are already working on and
need time to finish or develop for publication. Please look at the Working
Papers, IDS Bulletins, and news items listed on the IDS Sexuality webpage to
give you an idea of our usual range of formats and themes (http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/sexualityanddevelopment). However, please do feel free to propose something
new and different which goes beyond the limits of our own imaginations!
·
Be a resident or national of a non-OECD country in order
to qualify for the bursary. We welcome OECD applicants who are able to support
themselves and can assist you in finding somewhere reasonably cheap to stay for
the residency.
· Be able to write well in English
· Be available to be in IDS for at least two weeks during July 2009
Application Deadline: May 22,2009
Application Process: Please submit
· a one to two page proposal on the piece you would like to write OR a draft
piece of work you would like to develop INCLUDING AN ABSTRACT of no less than
300 words
· a short CV & 3-4 line biography describing yourself and the work you do
· a sample of something you have written previously (need not be published)
· details of when you would be available to come to IDS during July
· details of any funding you/your organisation can contribute eg. could you
cover travel costs to reach the
A selection panel will review the applications and
let all candidates know the outcome by the end of May 2009.
Please email your applications and queries about
logistics to Stephen Wood at s.wood@ids.ac.uk
and email Andrea Cornwall (a.cornwall@ids.ac.uk)
with any other questions about the VF scheme.