Deadline: May 15, 2025

While the demand for higher education in Africa has increased tremendously in the past two decades, comparable investment in the capacity development of early career academics is still limited. The overall purpose of the two in-person interactive workshops is to provide a cutting-edge research training and development opportunity for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in West Africa.

The specific goals of the workshops are to:

• Equip participants with the mechanisms and tools to publish in international, impactful peer-reviewed journals and write grant proposals.
• Provide personalised mentorship and feedback on submitted manuscripts from experienced academics and journal editors.
• Provide participants with opportunities to network and collaborate with their colleagues, leading scholars and journal editors to produce impactful outputs for two years.
• Provide follow-up and sustained support to participants for their submissions to international journals after the workshop.

Benefit

• They will provide three nights of hotel accommodation and breakfast, refreshments, lunch, and dinner for the two-day workshop.

Eligibility

They invite Early Career Researchers who have either completed their PhDs in the past 8 years or are near completion of their PhDs to apply for a place in this workshop. Less than 30 academics will be accepted to the program. Female Early Career Researchers are highly encouraged to apply.

To apply, you must meet the criteria below:

• Applicants must have completed their PhD within the last 8-10 years or be close to PhD completion.
• Applicants must submit a full CV together with a proposal/idea paper outlining the motivation for the study, the research question, the theoretical background, and the methodological approach, sources of data (maximum of 1500 words). The proposed /manuscript can be from any social science discipline (e.g., Finance, Management, Accounting, Marketing, Tourism, Sustainability, Public Health Management, International Business, Human Resources, etc).
• They expect participants to submit one paper to an international conference and/or an international journal at the end of the workshop.

Application

They invite you to apply for a place in the British Academy-sponsored International Workshop, which will be held in Togo for 20 ECRs and Sierra Leone for 10 ECRs in guided writing and research activities. Submit your paper, which should not exceed 1500 words including abstract, tables, figures, and references, and contain/cover the following:

• Title of the paper
• Introduction (rationale /motive for the study, research aim, and  research objectives
• The theoretical background (importance of your study/brief literature)
• Discussion of the used methodological approach (method(s) used and source(s) of data)
• Discussion of key findings/results
• Conclusions (concluding remarks, theoretical and practical implications)
• References
• Each applicant should submit only one paper.

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