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FUTURE AFRICA
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP
The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) is an early career research fellowship program focused on developing transdisciplinary research and leadership skills.
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About
Future Africa Research
Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF)
The Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria is pleased to announce the launch of its Research Leadership Fellowship program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation in New York.
The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) is an early career research fellowship program focused on developing transdisciplinary research and leadership skills. In particular, the programme seeks to build a network of emerging African scientists with the skills to apply transdisciplinary approaches and collaborate to address complex challenges in Africa's human well-being and environment nexus.
Africa's challenges can usually not be answered by or within one topic: we need solutions from different disciplines. Transdisciplinarity brings a bottom-up approach involving the community affected by issues addressed in the research. To address these complex, inter-linked challenges of health, well-being, and environmental risks in Africa, the program recognises the value of creating a long-term network of future-focussed science leaders with transdisciplinary research skills, who can address the challenges of a post-Covid-19 society.
24 Candidates
from all over Africa
9 African countries
represented
12 Disciplines
Working in 12 different
disciplines
All 17 SDGs
Linked to all 17 SDG's
Services
Virtual Research Environment
Going digital is a disruptive form of scholarly activity that changes rapidly. The methods that scientists used during the pandemic hinted at a new normal in a post-pandemic world. These changes impacted on access to infrastructure that needed to be implemented in a now virtual research environment. The unique affordances of digital media include, but are not limited to, new forms of collaboration, publication, and research methods for data visualisation and analysis. While it is important to collect more data for a better understanding of the challenge, there is already a suboptimal use of current information due to a limited process of knowledge sharing. The Virtual Research Environment (VRE) allow for access to diverse virtual tools to support individual online research spaces and an online collaboration platform.
Digital Literacy Tool
Digital scholarship is not limited to providing access to tools and technologies but also crucial to bridge possible skills gaps by providing the required training. In an academic environment, it is expected of individuals to develop and maintain some form of information literacy, given the acceleration of digitalisation there is an ever-increasing demand to establish and maintain a baseline of digital literacy. Digital literate individuals are in a better position to work and conduct themselves in a digital environment and become excellent digital scholars. The digital skills assessment tool assist with the identification of digital literacy proficiency and identifying the required course of action to provide relevant support.
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The programme seeks to build a network of emerging African scientists with the skills to apply transdisciplinary approaches and to collaborate to address complex challenges in the human well-being and environment nexus in Africa.
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