Postgraduate Students Association for the Natural and Agricultural Sciences (PSANA)

Opportunities

One of PSANA’s chief aims is to advertise a variety of opportunities including jobs, bursaries, scholarships and postdoctoral to postgraduate students. To facilitate this we have created a special Opportunities board. Please return often to view new opportunities. All opportunities without a closing date will be left for a period of five months after they have been posted. If you know of an opportunity please feel free to e-mail it to the webmaster - james.mehl[a]fabi.up.ac.za (replace [a] with @).

CGIAR Funding News - various
Oil and Protein Seeds Development Trust scholarships - 21 September 2010
Protein Research Foundation scholarships - 21 September 2010
Mwalimu Nyerere Scholarship Program: Candidate's form, application form - 30 September 2010
Postgraduate Study Abroad Programme - 30 September 2010
2011 Commonwealth Split-Site Doctoral Scholarships - 15 October 2010
International Foundation for Science (IFS) research grants - 31 December 2010
SAPPO: call for reviews & research proposals, bursary application, project applications - posted 10 May 2010
Forest Molecular Genetics programme at UP: Junior Research Assistant position - posted 24 May 2010
Robert S. McNamara (RSM) Fellowships - posted 7 June 2010
Forest Molecular Genetics programme at UP: Bioinformatics Programmer Position - posted 3 August 2010
Registrar of Genetically Modified Organisms-DAFF - posted 13 September 2010

The Faculty has a list of bursaries on one of its marketing webpages: here.
The University also has a list of bursaries available from external organisations: here.
Job offerings from Sciencejobs.com are available here.
Job offerings from SciDev.net are available here.
International job offerings available from adsumo.com (from BioMed Central) can be found here.
For those wanting to do degrees overseas in England, the last posting from FindaPhD.com can be found here.
There is also an article from The Scientist covering the issue of Internet job sites. Please note that PSANA does subscribe to all these services and updates are made available above when they are posted.

An organization offering jobs in the Netherlands can be found here.

Another website resource for various positions available at universities in South Africa is http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/Jobs/jobs.htm.

The University has an archive of Funding Opportunities available from the Division of Research Support here.

The University has an office dedicated to advertising bursary and study opportunities abroad. Their contact details are as follows:

Mrs Louise Euthimiou
Co-ordinator: Department International Relations
E-mail: [email protected] / 012 420 3237

Resources

Code of Ethics for Research

Guidelines for Conducting Research and Publishing in Marketing: From Conceptualization Through
the Review Process - John O. Summers

Presentations and documents from the ASSAf PhD Symposium (The national capacity for the production of doctoral graduates):
Dr Johann Mouton: Ten facts about doctoral production in South Africa
Dr Chaya Herman: The national capacity for the production of doctoral graduates - Reflections from the field
Prof Maresi Nerad:
The Context for Increasing the Quantity and Assuring the Quality of Doctoral Education in South Africa - What we know about the increase in PhD production and reform of doctoral education worldwide
The Graduate School - A Model to Enhance Quantity and Quality in PhD Production

If you would like to study in the Netherlands and need financial aid, then the Grantfinder may be able to help you.

The Graduate Junction allows you to create a profile online and interact with other students and scientists within your research domain, or create your own research group (similar to facebook).  

Book: "Women in Science": Audio book/PDF, To order hardcopies

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