Sanitation Research Project Fellowship
Course(s) offered: Environmental Health
Course Level: Graduate (PhD fellowship)
Provider: Danish Ministry of Foreign affairs (FFU)
Country to Study in: Ghana
Scholarship Description
The University of Copenhagen inward partnership amongst the University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science together with Technology together with the Dodowa Health Research Centre has been awarded funding from the Danish Ministry of Foreign (FFU) affairs to acquit a large sanitation inquiry projection inward the Dangme West District of Ghana, amongst a focus on chop-chop developing townships.
Eligibility
The successful candidate volition get got a minimum of:
Course(s) offered: Environmental Health
Course Level: Graduate (PhD fellowship)
Provider: Danish Ministry of Foreign affairs (FFU)
Country to Study in: Ghana
Scholarship Description
The University of Copenhagen inward partnership amongst the University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science together with Technology together with the Dodowa Health Research Centre has been awarded funding from the Danish Ministry of Foreign (FFU) affairs to acquit a large sanitation inquiry projection inward the Dangme West District of Ghana, amongst a focus on chop-chop developing townships.
Eligibility
The successful candidate volition get got a minimum of:
- MD, DVM, M.Sc, MPhil, MPH, or other equivalent masters rank inward a relevant plain (e.g. Environmental Health together with Hygiene, Veterinary Public Health, Microbiology/Parasitology, Biological Sciences)
- Intense involvement together with proven sense inward scientific exploration inward at to the lowest degree i of the 3 dependent area fields:
- Environmental Health together with Hygiene
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology/Parasitology
- Competency amongst quantitative together with preferable every bit good qualitative inquiry methods
- Willingness to go inward a squad together with a potent ambition to plough over the inquiry goals of the project
- Creative personality
- Excellent academic results /transcripts
- Excellent communication skills
- Good ascendency of English linguistic communication inward speaking together with writing
- PhD candidates from non-Anglophone countries are required to submit an internationally recognised Certificate of Proficiency inward the English linguistic communication Language (TOEFL or British Council, IELTS).
- Willingness to work, incl. extensive plain work, inside Republic of Ghana inward the Greater Accra together with Dangme West Districts
- Ability to move to Copenhagen for periods of 3-4 months for PhD course of education training, information analyses together with supervisory workshops
- Full fourth dimension availability from 01.09.2011 for a menstruum of 3 years
Eligible groups
Citizens of Republic of Ghana together with other West African countries
Participating Institutions
The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The University of Ghana, Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science together with Technology, Ghana; together with
The Dodowa Health Research Centre, Ghana
Fields of study
PhD bird courses inward Environmental Health - "Research projection inward the Dangme West District of Ghana, amongst a focus on chop-chop developing townships inward Ghana".
The Sustainable Sanitation-Ghana Project aims to put existing barriers to improved sanitation together with suggest trouble organization models for providing hygienic latrine technologies together with waste matter management solutions that tin go used inward poor, chop-chop urbanizing townships inward Ghana.
Number of awards
Not specified
Sponsorship duration
Throughout the duration of the doctoral study
Scholarship benefits
The PhD candidate volition go enrolled every bit a PhD beau at the University of Republic of Ghana together with volition get got the possibility for articulation enrollment at the University of Copenhagen if requirements regarding publication inward peer reviewed journals are met.
PhD supervision volition go a articulation University of Republic of Ghana together with University of Copenhagen essay together with the PhD beau volition get got the chance to accept PhD bird courses at both Universities.
Location of work:
Fieldwork volition go carried out mainly inward Dangme West District of Ghana.
While inward Ghana, the beau volition go affiliated to the Department of Biological, Environmental together with Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana.
While inward Denmark, the beau volition go affiliated to the Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
Method of Application
To apply for this fellowship, it is of import to see the official website (link to it is below) for consummate information on how to apply for this award.
DEADLINES:
All application interests for this companionship must go submitted on or earlier 27 May 2011
PLEASE NOTE
The University of Republic of Ghana is the oldest together with largest of the xiii Ghanaian universities together with 3rd institutions. It was founded inward 1948 every bit the University College of the Gold Coast, together with was originally an affiliate college of the University of London, which supervised its academic programmes together with awarded degrees. It gained total academy condition inward 1961.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science together with Technology is a University inward Kumasi, Ghana. It is the instant populace academy established inward the province every bit good every bit the instant largest University inward Ghana.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2011
Open for International Students: Yes
Further Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: List of Scholarships / Fellowships inward Republic of Ghana for Students
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