Organizing team: Dr. Susann Baller (MIASA, DHIP), Dr. Laure Carbonnel (DHIP-CREPOS), Dr. Selly Bâ (HBS), Dr. Haydée Bangerezako (UCAD), Dr. Fatoumata Keita (ULSH Bamako)

22-25 June 2021

What opportunities and solutions exist to imagine, plan and promote national and international women’s academic careers? This fourth workshop on Female Academic Careers in Africa aims to discuss the challenges and opportunities of female academic careers in African contexts. It includes two roundtables and a training session both in English and in French. The first roundtable, on research funding, brings together personalities from the world of research with experience in funding agencies. The second roundtable is public to a broader audience and brings together female academics working in different African countries who discuss the evolution of their academic careers and their experiences in the search for research funding and/or research fellowships.

The workshop is addressing female researchers from African countries and/or affiliated to African universities at the beginning of their careers (priority is given to postdocs in social sciences and humanities). Its format is hybrid: one groups is meeting in Dakar, one in Bamako, one in Accra and one only online.

The workshop is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Women's Promotion Program of the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) based at the University of Ghana (Legon) and the German Historical Institute in Paris (IHA), Max Weber Foundation, German Humanities Institutes Abroad, in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Senegal.

22 June 2021: Advanced training “How to apply successfully for research funding?” (in English): Prof. Ruth Murambadoro

23 June 2021: Formation « Comment postuler avec succès pour des fonds de recherche » ? (en français): Prof. Fatou Diop Sall

24 June 2021: PUBLIC Round Table I: Funding: How people and projects get selected? * Dr Sarah Ssali (Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, Makerere University and member of Social Science Research Council, SSRC); * Dr. Daniela Kneissl: Head of Division: Africa and Middle East, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; * Léonide Azah Awah(Programme Manager, Training, Grants and fellowship programme, Codesria); * Pr Amadou Mahamane (Enseignant-Chercheur à l’Université des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologie de Bamako (USTTB) et le Responsable du Campus Numérique Francophone (CNF) de l’AUF); * Noloyiso Mtembu (Coordinator: Iso Lomso Fellowship programme at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, STIAS)

25 June 2021: Round Table II: Academic career experiences: success and pitfalls in applications * Pr Nadine Machikou (Faculté de sciences juridiques et politiques, Université de Yaoundé 2); * Mavis Dako-Gyeke (Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Social Work, University of Ghana); * Dr. Netsanet Gebremichael Weldesenbet (Lecturer, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University); * Djeneba Traoré (West Africa Institute, Praia)