Call for Applications: British Academy Writing and Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Researchers in West Africa 2025

The British Academy is pleased to announce two interactive workshops aimed at supporting Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in West Africa.

These workshops will take place in Lomé, Togo and Mile 91, Sierra Leone in June and July 2025, and are designed to provide cutting-edge research training and development opportunities for ECRs in the region. The workshops are part of a broader initiative to address the gap in capacity development for early career academics in Africa, which has emerged despite the increasing demand for higher education.

The specific goals of the workshops are to:

• Equip participants with the mechanisms and tools to publish in international impactful peer-reviewed journals and write grant proposals.
• Provide personalised mentorship, and feedback on submitted manuscripts from experienced academics and journal editors.
• Provide participants with opportunities to network and collaborate with their colleagues, leading scholars and journal editors to produce impactful outputs over the period of two years.
• Provide follow-up and sustained support to participants for their submissions to international journals after the workshop.

• Table of Content
• About African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
• British Academy Writing and Mentoring Workshop
• Requirements for British Academy Writing and Mentoring Workshop Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)

The launch of AERC goes back to the late 1980s, when a small group of Africanists and African scholars began to recognize the disconnect between economic policy making and economic research in sub-Saharan Africa. Available research results, applied to other economies, did not always seem appropriate to the African context. And where such results were available, they were too often not put to use. Their concern swelled into a full-fledged idea; they had a discussion about a vehicle for pooling their expertise and applying it to the development of economic policy capacity in sub-Saharan Afric... continue reading

British Academy Writing and Mentoring Workshop

Requirements for British Academy Writing and Mentoring Workshop Qualification

Applications are invited from Early Career Researchers who have either completed their PhD in the last 8 years or are nearing completion to apply for this valuable opportunity. The workshops are open to researchers from any social science discipline, including but not limited to:

• Finance
• Management
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Tourism
• Sustainability
• Public Health Management
• International Business
• Human Resources

Eligibility Criteria

To apply for this opportunity, you must meet the following criteria:

1. PhD Completion: Applicants must have completed their PhD within the last 8-10 years or be nearing completion of their PhD.
2. Research Proposal: Applicants must submit a full CV along with a proposal/idea paper (maximum of 1500 words) outlining the following:
   • Motivation for the study
   • Research question
   • Theoretical background
   • Methodological approach
   • Sources of data The proposal can focus on any social science discipline (see examples above).
3. Conference or Journal Submission: Applicants should be prepared to submit one paper to an international conference and/or an international journal at the end of the workshop.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit AERC webpage