MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop 2022

The workshop offers time and space to discuss the challenges and opportunities for women in academia in African contexts. Participants from Ghana and other African countries will be accompanied by a professional coach through different modules that address the issues of how to build up efficient teams, how to deal with university hierarchies, how to address conflicts at the workplace, and how to proceed an academic career with multiple time constraints. The workshop explores professional relationships in academic practice.

The coaching aims at assisting participants to define their own working and leadership style, but also to consider how to adapt oneself to different contexts and challenges. The overarching purpose is to encourage early- and mid-career female academics in Ghana and other African countries to further build up their careers, to develop strategies for keeping a work-life-balance that allows for prospering in one’s research and academic work, and to become ready for taking up leadership positions and/or seizing other professional opportunities.

• Table of Content
• About Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)
• MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop
• Aim and Benefits of MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop
• Requirements for MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)

The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is an international research college at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. The Institute facilitates the cooperation of Ghanaian scientists with their international peers beyond disciplinary and geographical boundaries. MIASA is committed to reducing global asymmetries in knowledge production, simultaneously bridging the cultural divide between anglophone and francophone Africa, as well as increasing the visibility of humanities and social science research by academics in and from Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to ac... continue reading

MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop

Aim and Benefits of MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop

• MIASA covers travel costs for participants (economy class flight, only mandatory covid-19 tests, local transport, accommodation).

Requirements for MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop Qualification

• Open to early- and mid-career female academics who are affiliated in the Social Sciences and Humanities with universities or research institutes in Africa.
• Applicants should have a PhD.
• They are open to a broad range of disciplines and appreciate, in particular, applicants who work on one or more of MIASA’s main research themes

Application Deadline

How to Apply

If you wish to apply for participating in this workshop, submit your application as one PDF to the following address: [email protected]

The dossier should be comprised of:

• Motivation letter (please describe your general professional profile and indicate the two main reasons why you wish to participate in this workshop)
• Research profile, max. 500 words (please describe briefly your main research themes)
• CV, including publication list, max. 2 pages.

Join all documents into one PDF file, called SURNAME_GIVEN NAME_Female2022.pdf

For more details,visit MIASA website