PhD Scholarship, Roskilde University:
Communication and Social Change

This PhD scholarship is a co-financed scholarship between the Danish development NGO ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) and Roskilde University (RU), Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies (CBIT). The 3-year research scholarship is based on the aim of providing research insights, giving input to and capturing lessons learnt from ADRA Denmark’s extensive experience with the practice of communication for social change. The successful PhD candidate will research, analyse and position ADRA’s experiences with communication for social change vis-à-vis the current debates of how civil society in developing countries, and in Africa in particular, make use of communication and media in articulating processes of empowerment, advocacy and social change. The research project is situated within the research area of communication for social change.

Full announcement is available here. Application deadline: 20 June 2013.