{"id":8534,"date":"2025-09-30T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:29:46","slug":"ird-wits-ifas-research-fieldwork-bursaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/ird-wits-ifas-research-fieldwork-bursaries\/","title":{"rendered":"IRD\u2013Wits\u2013IFAS-Research Fieldwork Bursaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8535\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg-logo-freelogovectors.net_-1024x362.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg-logo-freelogovectors.net_-1024x362.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg-logo-freelogovectors.net_-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg-logo-freelogovectors.net_-768x272.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg-logo-freelogovectors.net_.png 1453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-cropped-pngIFASresearche30thlogo-singlesolidred-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-cropped-pngIFASresearche30thlogo-singlesolidred-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-cropped-pngIFASresearche30thlogo-singlesolidred-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-cropped-pngIFASresearche30thlogo-singlesolidred-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-cropped-pngIFASresearche30thlogo-singlesolidred.png 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>PhD Students based in Gauteng, South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deadline: 23:59 on Monday 20th October 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ph.D.-Fieldwork-Bursaries-Call-for-Applications-29-September-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2b07\ufe0f Download this call in .pdf<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=jJAbS4JVd0O6B6NtZeNJNI3NLl_KceJLvYe02hsb6jFUOUk0Tk1XS1lRVDhPMlk5UFVSOVBFMEVHUC4u&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2b07\ufe0f Complete the online application form.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The Beyond Binaries project, a collaboration between the University of the Witwatersrand School of Social Sciences, IRD\u2014the French National Research Institute, and IFAS-Research, invites current PhD students registered at Gauteng-based South African universities to apply for one of ten R10,000 fieldwork bursaries. These bursaries can be put towards expenses associated with fieldwork and ethnographic research \u2013 interviews, participant-observation, focus groups etc \u2013 to support the successful completion of doctoral dissertations. This is a fieldwork specific call, with the ultimate goal being to support the next generation of researchers who are doing innovative and original fieldwork in Africa. All disciplines within the Humanities, broadly conceived, are welcome here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Beyond Binaries project responds to the inadequacy of entrenched binaries\u2014north\/south, west\/rest, civilized\/uncivilized\u2014in explaining today\u2019s interconnected challenges, from climate change and pandemics to authoritarianism and economic inequality. Instead, it explores global circuits of influence and exchange, where ideas, practices and solidarities circulate multi-directionally, disrupting deficit framings of Africa and Eurocentric knowledge economies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ph.D.-Fieldwork-Bursaries-Call-for-Applications-29-September-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information on the project is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>To apply for a fieldwork bursary you need to:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=jJAbS4JVd0O6B6NtZeNJNI3NLl_KceJLvYe02hsb6jFUOUk0Tk1XS1lRVDhPMlk5UFVSOVBFMEVHUC4u&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Complete an application form via this hyperlink<\/a>. Your fieldwork plan should include a rough sense of how you propose to spend the available funding. You should also outline how you intend address larger questions relating to research ethics and knowledge production as part of your planned fieldwork. If your fieldwork takes place in another African country you will also need to confirm how you will resolve any national requirements associated with getting your research officially approved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Email 1) your current CV and 2) your ethics approval paperwork\/certificate to Beth (<a href=\"mailto:2987838@students.wits.ac.za\">2987838@students.wits.ac.za<\/a>) and L\u00e9a (<a href=\"mailto:Lea.Jobard@frenchinstitute.org.za\">Lea.Jobard@frenchinstitute.org.za<\/a>).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Applicants must be:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prepared to complete your funded fieldwork by July 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Based in Gauteng and available to travel to Wits for events associated with the project, including a conference at Wits in September 2026 focusing upon ethics, extraction and knowledge economies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prepared to draft a short paper which reflects upon your fieldwork experiences, and to contribute to events where these papers will be refined with a view to eventual publication in a special issue\/collection (the project team will provide mentorship, training and editorial support to help develop your paper).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to hearing about your fieldwork! Successful applicants will be notified in the first half of November. If you have any questions, please contact Beth and L\u00e9a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Students based in Gauteng, South Africa Deadline: 23:59 on Monday 20th October 2025 \u2b07\ufe0f Download this call in .pdf\u2b07\ufe0f Complete the online application form. 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