The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Asia-Pacific Regional Centre is accepting applications for the 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Academic Fellowship covering themes of climate change, food security and sustainable livelihoods.
The aim of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Academic Fellowships for Asia and the Pacific is to analyse issues from the human development perspective, with a focus on fostering creative thinking and innovative research on the subject among young people. The research must focus on a well-defined aspect of human development, could be theoretical, applied, policy-oriented or a combination and must amount to a substantive contribution to human development thinking relevant for the region.
The Fellowship is intended for young Ph.D. students who are at an advanced dissertation stage working on a topic related to human development – theoretical, applied or policy oriented.
The Fellowship carries an award of US $10,000.
Applicants should be a citizen of a developing country in the Asia-Pacific region, have a master’s degree in a relevant discipline and currently enrolled as a fulltime PhD student, have identified a human development-related topic, submit proposal approved by the direct supervisor at the applicant’s university, should be younger than 30 years or in exceptional cases the age requirement may be related to 35 years and should not be a UN staff member.
The deadline to apply is 30 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
