University of North Carolina Visiting Research Fellowship, Transfer Project 2021 for African Researchers

Published: 07 Aug 2020 1,527 views

The Transfer Project invites African researchers to apply for a 5-month fellowship to engage on joint impact evaluation research with project researchers.

The Transfer Project is a multi-country researchlearning initiative on the impacts of cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensive data have been collected to capture the effects of these transfer programs on a wide range of outcomes such as consumption and food security, household demographics, health, education, productive activities, and adolescent safe transitions to adulthood.

The visiting fellow will work with Transfer Project researchers on a joint research project using data from impact evaluations from one or more of the following countries: Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Ghana.

University of North Carolina Research Fellowship

Benefits of University of North Carolina Research Fellowship

1. The visiting fellow will work on one research paper together with Transfer Project researchers. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the fellowship will be conducted entirely by virtual means. In that regard, it is required that candidates have access to good computer and internet resources for holding Zoom-type interactive sessions.
2. The selected fellows will participate in a virtual workshop on impact
   evaluation methods, and each fellow will collaborate with a senior Transfer Project researcher and a faculty from the University of North Carolina (UNC) to identify the paper topic, develop an analysis/work
   plan and timeline.
3. The visiting fellow and mentors will prepare the analysis datasets and conduct the analysis and will write a manuscript. The final paper will be published as a Transfer Project working paper and will be submitted to an academic journal for publication. The paper can serve as a dissertation chapter if agreed upon beforehand and if co-authorship is acceptable.
4. In addition, visiting fellows will be encouraged to identify opportunities to present joint work at academic conferences as appropriate.
5. UNC will provide an honorarium of $5000 US Dollars. This Request for Application is open to citizens of African countries only.

Requirements for University of North Carolina Research Fellowship

1. We seek African junior researchers affiliated with African research institutions or universities.
2. Candidates should be either PhD students at the dissertation stage, or early career academics (PhD earned within last 5 years) in economics, agricultural economics, demography, public health or public policy.
3. Candidates must have strong microeconomic and quantitative analysis skills, be conversant in modern impact evaluation techniques, be fluent in STATA and able to communicate fluently in the English language.
4. While substantive field is open, we seek applicants whose interests lie in topics covered by the evaluation data that we have available—survey instruments and research themes can be found at the Transfer Project website under country pages.

Application Deadline

How to Apply