Call for applications: PhD Scholarships on Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa

The Danish-East African research project, “People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA)”, funded by the Danish Development Agency (Danida), offers two full-time PhD scholarships (36 months) starting on January 1st 2010, using ethnographic perspectives. One will be registered as a PhD student at University of Nairobi, the other at University of Dar es Salaam. Funding follow provisions of Kenya and Tanzania universities.

It is the general objective of the announced PhD scholarships to strengthen the overall research efforts of MEDIeA in Kenya and Tanzania. The PhD students are expected to provide community based research which uncovers the synergies and communication relations between everyday life, media use, citizen engagement in social and political processes. The announced PhD projects can be specified as follows:

Kenya: Communication, e-participation and digital inclusion: a media ethnographic study.

Tanzania: Media use, citizenship and participatory governance: a media ethnographic study in Tanzania.

For more information follow this link.

See detailed project descriptions here (pdf).