List of postdoctoral research fellowship 2025-2026 for African students to study in abroad or in Africa
President Derek Bok established the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) in 1979 to address the needs of South Africans who were denied access to advanced education by the apartheid system. This program was established, and is still intended, for mid-career professionals educationally
Published: 04 Feb 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Mar 2022
The fellowship is a 20-week bootcamp and implementation program designed for early-stage Civic innovators with tech-enabled ideas that can solve social problems. The incubation program will focus on bringing more players into the civic tech space. The Civic Hive project, under the fellowship prog
Published: 04 Feb 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified
The Generation Change Fellows Program (GCFP) is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of civically engaged youth leaders as they emerge as peacebuilders in their communities. By delivering training in effective leadership, conflict management, and prejudice awareness and reduction; provi
Published: 02 Feb 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 18 Feb 2022
This year IDRC will offer research awards related to these development areas or themes: Climate-Resilient Food Systems, Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Education and Science, Ethics in Development Research, Global Health, Policy and Evaluation, and Sustainable Incl
Published: 01 Feb 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Canada Deadline: 14 Feb 2022
The WBG-Africa Education Fellowship Program targets young, talented African nationals who are master’s degree holders with three to four years of relevant experience who are completing or have recently completed their Ph.D. in an area relevant to the World Bank’s work in the Educati
Published: 28 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) invites researchers from East Africa and Anglophone West Africa interested in developing their skills in impact evaluation and implementation science to apply for a four-month fellowship (sabbatical) at the University of California Be
Published: 28 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 07 Mar 2022
The BIEA seeks to appoint several early career researchers who have successfully completed doctoral studies within the last 5 years (with allowance made for family-related or other relevant career breaks), to fill a number of full-time one-year Research Fellow positions at our research hub
Published: 28 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Kenya Deadline: 15 Feb 2022
The programme will offer in-depth training for clinicians committed to careers in HIV clinical service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of strengthening access to high-quality services for sub-Saharan Africa populations, with a client-centred service delivery approach. Many African cou
Published: 25 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 20 Feb 2022
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is renowned for its research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excell
Published: 24 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
The goal of Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) fellowships and grants is to increase the engagement of early career researchers (ECR) in CliC activities and to promote the participation of scientists from regions currently underrepresented in CliC, i.e., South America, Asia and Africa.
Published: 21 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
The Future Africa Fellowship is a year-long learning experience that provides aspiring public sector leaders and social innovators with the knowledge, network and skills required to transform the African political economy. The Fellowship incorporates research, debate and rigorous analysis designed t
Published: 21 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 05 Feb 2022
The IMU – Simons African Fellowship Program supports research sabbaticals for mathematicians from African developing countries employed in Africa to travel to an internationally known mathematical center of excellence (worldwide) for collaborative research. All travel and l
Published: 20 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Oct 2022
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Programme (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship programme for educational projects at African higher education institutions for African researchers in diaspora. Offered by IIE in partnership with the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), the
Published: 18 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
The Young Leadership Program (YLP) is a two-year full-time consulting program that develops exceptional young local Ethiopia talent into real leaders. What You’ll Do: You’ll work in teams of typically 3 – 5 consultants, playing an active role in all aspects of the client enga
Published: 18 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ethiopia Deadline: Not Specified
The Gordon N. Fisher/JHR Journalism Fellowship is an annual opportunity for a journalist from Sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East to participate in the William Southam Journalism Fellowship Program at Massey College in the University of Toronto. The Fisher Fellowship runs in tandem with the Wil
Published: 17 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Canada Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Sweden is considered to be one of the leading countries in sustainable business practice. Swedish companies play a prominent role in finding new, innovative ways to integrate social, environmental and ethical concerns into their core business models. But the challenges are global and we have a commo
Published: 17 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 13 Feb 2022
The Teach the Nation Fellowship is looking for full-time Teachers in the Western Cape. Our focus is on under-resourced communities and schools to bring about educational equity in the Western Cape. The Fellowship is a two-year leadership development opportunity for young impactful teachers to contin
Published: 14 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Deadline: Not Specified
The European Parliament’s Sakharov Fellowship offers up to 14 human rights defenders selected from non-EU countries the opportunity to follow a two week intensive training in Brussels and at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice. The empowering pro
Published: 13 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Jan 2022