Capacity Building
Capacity building is a crucial aspect of collaborative excellence for equity in promoting impactful research and education on inequalities, poverty, and deprivation across Africa.
The CoRE IPD is constituted on the principle of equity amongst each of the partner institutions. The academic leads have exceptional track records in supervising masters students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral fellows, as well as writing successful grant proposals.
The Cluster is committed to building an integrated approach which links research, capacity building, and education; promoting and encouraging the participation of women at all levels; scouting and fostering research excellence throughout the talent pipeline; and sharing existing knowledge and resources. In addition, the Cluster aims to encourage young researchers to apply for scholarships supporting a research visit at partner universities, provide travel grants for incoming and outgoing PhD students, early career and researchers, and upscale PhD and young researchers’ exchange considerably.
The Cluster also plans to co-create elective courses on inequalities, poverty, and deprivation (IPD) online, on-site, and hybrid; deliver short courses; and promote digitisation across partner institutions. The long-term vision of the Cluster includes the establishment of a large, strong African-European IPD research group; a prestigious interdisciplinary postgraduate programme on IPD; a well-established IPD training programme for practitioners and policymakers; a new multidisciplinary journal on IPD in Africa; and an exceptional international reputation for postgraduate training.
