Applications are invited by climate change researchers from South Asia to apply to participate in a new fellowship programme and a residential writing workshop to be organized in South Asia in 2012.
Through fellowships and residential writing workshops, South Asian scientists and social scientists will be trained and supported to:
- Publish in peer reviewed journals
- Write for different types of publication aimed at a range of audiences
- Increase their influence on policy
- Raise the profile of their research through the media
Applications are open to researchers from Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan who are working on any aspect of climate change research. Participants should be early/mid career researchers, although more established researchers may be considered. Moreover, 80 researchers will be selected to participate in fellowships and writing workshops. Moreover, 20 fellowships will be offered, and 15 participants will be selected for each of four writing workshops.
Support to Improve Climate Research and Information Services in South Asia’ (SICRISA) is a two-year project which aims to increase the quality and quantity of climate change research from South Asia. This will be achieved by training and mentoring South Asian scientists through fellowships and four residential writing workshops (writeshops), and by publishing two special editions of journals.
Many key climate change journals feature little research generated locally from countries in the global South. The next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports will be significant in understanding climate change but there is a danger that there will be inadequate representation of climate science from the global South. This project focuses on supporting the production of quality research from South Asia to feed into IPCC processes.
Deadline for applications is 21 February 2012 (17.00 Delhi time).
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