Graduate School

Nine Universities - Four Continents - One Graduate School

ICDD’s core programme for knowledge generation and dissemination is its Graduate School of Socio-Ecological Research for Development. In the period from 2010 to 2019, it offered a multidisciplinary research and education environment for more than 90 PhD and postdoc researchers, with PhD and postdoc projects being either rooted in the social or agricultural sciences.

Main Features

Graduate School fellows are based at one of the ICDD’s partner universities in Africa, Asia, Latin America or Europe.

Apart from providing a common core curriculum and international co-supervision, it enables vibrant collaboration in the fields of fellow exchange, joint research projects, and knowledge transfer.

What we achieved

In the period from 2010 to 2019, it offered a multidisciplinary research and education environment for more than 90 PhD and postdoc researchers, with PhD and postdoc projects being either rooted in the social or agricultural sciences.

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The ICDD is not accepting new applications for PhD positions with scholarship at the moment.

Curriculum (2009 - 2022)

  • ICDD PhD Toolbox
  • Seminars and workshops on theory, methods, decent work, and development
  • GLU Online courses
  • Workshops on practical problems of the PhD process
  • Weekly meetings for presenting and discussing research-in-progress
  • Financial and organizational support for self-organized workshops / conferences
  • Funding for fieldwork of PhD students and conference / workshop participation
  • Grants for publication of PhD theses
  • Support for publications

Members

  • Amount to 79 PhD and 15 postdoc fellows (2009 - 2022)
  • Come from more than 20 countries and all continents
  • Constitute a nearly gender-balanced group
  • Work mostly in academia, but also in policy research, inter- / national (N)GOs and consultancy after finishing the program

Hitherto no less than 47 candidates have acquired their PhD.

Post-Doctoral Scholarships

In line with the recommendations of the mid-term evaluation, the ICDD had started to broaden its networking activities and action arenas by granting postdoctoral fellowships to selected former alumni and external applicants. Please note that there are currently no more postdoctoral fellowships.

Contact until 31.12.22

Email: ICDD Graduate School (graduateschool[at]icdd.uni-kassel[dot]de)

Phone number: +49(0) 561 804-7395