Applications are now open for IMMANA fellowship!!!
It’s a new round of one-year Fellowship for emerging leaders in agriculture, nutrition, and health research, co-funded with UK Aid from the UK government through the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through their program on Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA)
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For 2021-22, IMMANA will award six career development Fellowships to researchers who are validating and applying innovative methods and metrics to measure change and impacts of policy or program interventions in agriculture, nutrition and health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Proposals will include plans for support from two Mentors, one from the applicant’s current or previous employer or academic institution, and one from a host institution where the applicant proposes to advance their work, with at least one of the two being physically located in Africa or Asia.
IMMANA Fellowships will aim for equal representation of women and men. We particularly welcome early-career applications and citizens of LMICs as well as individuals with research or faculty appointments in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.
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Successful applications will build on the candidate’s previous research, proposing a 12-month work plan to test and use new methods and metrics to guide improvements in agriculture and food systems for nutrition and health. Proposals will specify the existing data and methods they will bring to the project, and a realistic timeline for new data collection (if any), analysis and writing needed to complete new scientific manuscripts. Applications will be ranked based on realistic potential for submission of high impact publications to specified target journals or other scientific outlets within the Fellowship year.
Location:
United KingdomBenefits
Six Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive selection process. Each Fellowship will be
provided for a 12-month period and cannot be renewed. Each Fellowship must also involve two
Mentors. During that period, Fellows will receive the following financial support:
- A fixed stipend of £40,800 paid in quarterly instalments against satisfactory completion
of program milestones. - A research allowance of £9,000 to cover travel and other fieldwork expenses, also paid as lump
sums for achievement of program milestones. - An honorarium of £2,100 to each of the Mentors paid in two instalments at mid-term and end of
the year, on submission of a satisfactory mentorship report.
Eligibilities
- Candidates will have completed a doctoral degree (PhD, DPhil, DPH, MD, DVM or similar terminal degree)in any field related to agriculture, nutrition or health research and practice, and be actively engaged in research, education, and engagement at the intersection of two or more of these fields.
- We are particularly interested in applicants who aim to build careers or already have institutional affiliations in a research institute or university in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, but applicants maybe of any nationality and have earned their doctorate anywhere.
- Applicants must propose to to validation and/or apply a recently-developed methodological approach to agriculture, nutrition and health research under the joint supervision of two Mentors, one from the applicant’s current or previous employer or academic institution, and one from a host institution where the applicant proposes to advance their work. At least one of the two Mentors must be physically located in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.
Application Process
- Applications may be submitted in a two-stage process.
- Applicants are welcome and encouraged to submit a concept note to confirm eligibility and receive valuable feedback, however it is not required in order to submit a full proposal.
- Concept notes should be submitted as soon as possible, on a rolling basis until 31 December 2020. Full proposals must be submitted by 1 February 2021 and selected candidates will be notified by 16 April 2021. IMMANA Fellows must then begin their 12-month projects between the dates of 1 June and 1 December 2021.
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Application Deadline: December 31, 2020
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