Basel Graduate Network African Studies
The Basel Graduate Network African Studies seeks to integrate PhD students at the University of Basel across disciplines and faculties with specialized doctoral programmes. In cooperation with the Swiss Society for African Studies it promotes joint activities with other Swiss universities and the exchange within this national African Studies network.
In 2013, the ZASB, together with the Research Priority Program Asia and Europe at the University of Zürich, was awarded SUK (now swissuniversities) funding for the joint Graduate Module “Challenges in Interdisciplinary Area Studies”. In Basel, the graduate module developed into a lively community, supporting training for and individual research activities by PhD students within the African Studies network. This formed the basis for the implementation of the swissuniversities-funded Basel Graduate Network African Studies in 2017.
Between 2013 and 2023, a total of 100 young researchers affiliated with the Graduate Module or the Graduate Network completed their PhDs at different faculties of the University of Basel.
Objectives and offering
The Graduate Network assists its members in tackling the methodological challenges related to Africa related research and interdisciplinary area studies and to make their findings relevant for the disciplines.
The programme, which is supported by swissuniversities, seeks to enhance the quality and relevance of both interdisciplinary and disciplinary Africa-related research offering targeted graduate workshops and courses in the following three domains:
Research: methodology, interdisciplinarity, theory building
Themes: thematic workshops related to the key areas of Africa-related research at the University of Basel or emerging out of the individual PhD-projects
Skills: translation of research results into practice and application, presentation of results to academic and lay audiences
Apply for membership
If you are a PhD student at the University of Basel with a research focus on Africa you are invited to join the Graduate Network African Studies. PhD students at other Swiss or Eucor universities may apply for association.
Would you like to join the Graduate Network? Please complete the application form:
Further information
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