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GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON MIGRANT FUTURES DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS

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Application Deadline: 17:00 on Friday, 25 April, 2025

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the call for two fully-funded Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships that are part of a major grant awarded to Goldsmiths by Oak Foundation to establish a new Migrant Futures Institute (hereafter MFI) at Goldsmiths. Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships are central to the MFI’s vision to advance innovative research and training in the field of migration studies and foreground migrant intellectual lives and creative endeavours.

ELIGIBILITY:

One of the two awards for entry 2025-26 will be open to eligible home applicants who identify as migrants or refugees and from racialised ethnic minority backgrounds in any field of research and practice for which supervision is available at Goldsmiths, University of London.   To be clear, applicants considered for this award need not be working on a migration related topic, but they should be able to describe how their work will enhance their own economic, creative and intellectual lives and that of others.   

The second of these two awards will be open to all eligible home or international applicants – irrespective of background and experience – whose proposed PhD is focused on a topic related to migration, broadly conceived, including in relation to processes of race and racialisation.  Proposals must be informed by the co-production of knowledge with people and groups from migrant and refugee backgrounds, and demonstrate potential for social and cultural impact. 

Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentship holders will, upon award, be designated as Fellows of the Migrant Futures Institute and will be expected to contribute to developing and enhancing the research culture of the institute through their research, creative practice and participation in MFI activities and events.  Successful applicants from racialised backgrounds will also be invited to participate in the activities of Generation Delta Goldsmiths.

Applicants must be new or continuing doctoral students who will not have completed more than 1 year of full-time or 2 years of part-time registration by the start of the 2025-26 academic year.

Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships are open to home and international applicants: at least one award will be made to a home applicant with migrant or refugee experiences and from a racialised ethnic minority background.

Applications will be made through the Goldsmiths Graduate School via Gecko form.

To access the recording of the applicant information webinar held on Monday, 3 March 2025, please follow this link.

Please also refer to: Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships – Guidance for Applicants

BENEFIT:

Two doctoral studentships for entry in 2025-26.  These are fully-funded studentship that may be held on a full-time (FT) or part-time (PT) basis, pro-rata, over three years (FT) and six years (PT) and are at an equivalent rate to fully-funded UKRI studentships. They cover tuition fees and an annual stipend at the yearly UKRI rate (the full-time UKRI rate for 2025/26 is £22,780), together with a small annual research training and support fund.  

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MIT-EMPOWERING THE TEACHERS (MIT-ETT) FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

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Application Deadline: May 26, 2024.

LOCATION: USA

The overarching goal of MIT-ETT is to facilitate the development of young African faculty leadership in science and engineering education who will introduce innovation and creativity into science and engineering curricular. There are two main objectives of the MIT-ETT program: to provide young African professors with exposure to cutting-edge pedagogical methods in the highest-rated engineering and science departments in the U.S. and to provide American faculty who have a deep interest in connecting with those in their disciplines in emerging economies a concrete means of engagement.

ELIGIBILITY:

In an attempt to address the problems articulated above, MIT established the MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) Program lead by Professor Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande (EECS). The program invites young, brilliant and upcoming African academics, who recently completed their doctoral degree, to spend an intensive and inclusive semester at MIT in a bid to understudy the mode (& dynamics) of curricula development and content delivery at MIT. The aim is to facilitate in African institutions improved teaching content development that is geared towards:

students-centered content delivery

problem solving and

creativity.

This amongst other things will result in the development new courses and the modification of existing curricula to ones that are geared towards critical thinking, open ended problem solving and hands-on design but also promote innovation and creativity. While at MIT, these African academics developed new course content for their home universities which are consistent with the objectives of developing these skills in their students.

During their semester at MIT, the ETT fellows: 

Observe at least 2 MIT courses in their own disciplines  

Take a curriculum design course and implement research-based instructional design principles in their courses

Discuss & explore curricular enrichment & reform through both formal and informal interaction with the MIT community

Participate in numerous activities to develop critical change-agent skills. These skills include entrepreneurship, effective communication, experiential learning, reflection, collaboration, systems thinking and perseverance.

BENEFIT:

The program is fully sponsored by NNPC Ltd. & TotalEnergies EP Nigeria.

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