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PROGRAMME IN ‘LOCAL HISTORIES AND PRESENT REALITIES’
School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
HONOURS / MA / PhD
Bursaries for 2012
Applications are invited for Honours and MA/PhD bursaries in the research programme ‘Local Histories and Present Realities’. The programme is funded through the National Research Foundation’s South African Research Chairs’ Initiative, which awarded a Research Chair along with research positions and research funding to Prof Philip Bonner in 2007. The time horizon of the programme is mainly 20th to early 21st century. Its geographical horizon is the area encompassed by the North West, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Free State provinces.
A core aim of the programme is to relate local pasts to local presents. Its main focus is small/intermediate towns and their hinterlands in the area specified. The project is interdisciplinary and would welcome applications from students with distinguished academic records in the fields of History, Political Studies, Sociology, Social Anthropology and relevant but less adjacent subjects. Students may register in any one of these departments.
Successful Honours applicants will receive R25000 annually plus research expenses for 1 year of study. MA applicants will receive a bursary of R55000 annually plus research expenses for 2 years and PhD applicants will receive a bursary of R80000 plus research expenses for 3 years. Some assistance with conference funding may also be available in certain instances.
To apply please submit the following:
1. A detailed and up to date CV, which shows clearly your undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and component courses of study
2. An academic transcript
3. An example of any recent written/published work
4. Letters of reference from 2 referees
5. Certified copies of degrees
6. Applicants should provide a detailed application letter explaining their proposed area of research and how it might fit into this research programme.
Bursaries can be taken up from 1 January 2012. Students must be registered at Wits and MUST apply separately to the academic department that they wish to study in.
Closing date for applications is 28 October 2011.
For further details about the research programme contact the Administrator Mrs Zahn Gowar at
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Applications should be sent by post or delivered by hand to:
Mrs Zahn Gowar
NRF Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities/History Workshop
Admin Office; 5th floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus
University of the Witwatersrand; Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050
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