CFAs: Dissemination Grants for Postdoctoral Scholars (Africa and UK)

It supports scholars to return to the location of their PhD research up to three years after the successful completion of their doctorate. The aim is to support postdoctoral scholars to present their findings to the participants and stakeholders in the research, and to explore future potential research, collaboration, policy or practice agendas.

Funding Information

• The maximum grant available is £3,000 per scholar. Successful applicants will be expected to complete the dissemination by 31 January 2026.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only those who have recently completed doctoral research within the disciplines of humanities and social sciences in eastern Africa are eligible to apply (in this case ‘recently’ is defined as up to three years after successful PhD defence/graduation).
• You must have evidence of a formal affiliation with a recognized higher educational institution, or a national research/heritage organization.
• You must be able to provide one academic reference by the submission deadline.
• Dissemination can be focused in or on any locality in any of the eighteen countries stretching from Sudan to Mozambique that are part of Eastern Africa.
• Activities must clearly relate to the PhD research and the participants and stakeholders in relevant institutions, localities or communities.
• You must be able to secure their own institutional risk assessment and may also be required to provide evidence of ethics clearance, a data management plan, and insurance.
• Grants may be used to cover the cost of economy travel or to contribute towards the costs of events, activities or outputs. Recipients must not undertake any new research but may be able to use the grant to update existing research findings.
• Grants must not be spent on research costs, the publication of research, or research staff costs. They do not fund costs of the applicant’s or supervisor’s time, honorariums, institutional overheads, or (in most cases) the cost of equipment or books. They only fund economy travel. BIEA may occasionally ask applicants to revise budgets for further consideration.
• They encourage all successful applicants to consider publishing the results of their PhD research in one of their society journals: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, or the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

For more information, visit BIEA.