Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) invites applications for a 3-year position as Postdoc Researcher, starting on 1 February 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. The researcher will be part of the collaborative research project âDiaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crisesâ, focusing on Somalia.
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The Kenya Transport Research Network (KTRN) based at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, and the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group - facilitated by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung-Kenya, (FES Kenya) - will host an informal discussion on âPromoting a Socially Just Public Transport and the Role of Actors in Kenya.â
IDS Senior Research Fellow, Dr Mary Kinyanjui, presented a seminar entitled, âTowards an African Economic Geography:Â Â Challenges and Lessons Learnedâ, at the University of Nairobi Towers on November 21, 2019.
In 1992 Dr Mary Kinyanjui, a Senior Research Fellow at IDS, returned to Kenya after obtaining her PhD in Geography from Cambridge University.
The scholarâs experiences in two Kenyan universities will be the gist of her seminar, âTowards an African Economic Geography: Lesson Learned from Development Studies Research.âÂ
âIf you had been given a choice of which kind of political system to be born into, would you choose authoritarianism or democracy?â
This is the question that Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, posed during a packed seminar hosted by the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, on November 14, 2019.Â
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), in partnership with the University of Nairobi, will host an international conference and workshops on 18-20 November 2019 under the theme âAfrica and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities.â
