Applications for New Summer Residential Scholarship Institute at Brown University, 9-23 June 2012

Applications invited for New Summer Residential Scholarship Institute at Brown University, 9-23 June 2012

THEME: Population and Development: New Approaches to Enduring Global Problems

The application deadline is coming up soon: 18 February 2012.

From June 9-23, 2012, Brown University (in Providence, RI, USA) will host an international residential institute designed to enhance the scholarship, research, methodological skills, training, and networks of early-career social scientists from less developed countries. Participants will receive tailored feedback on their research ideas and will meet and interact with more than 20 of the world's leaders in population and development studies over the course of the 2-week institute. In addition to providing cutting-edge and personalized training, this institute aims to help foster collaborations between the Global North and Global South, as well as among scholars from different developing regions across the world.

This Institute is part of Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institutes initiative (BIARI), which brings together young faculty and professionals from around the world to address pressing global issues through innovative research and pedagogy. Thanks to generous support from Santander Universities, all the costs of tuition, food and accommodation (in university housing) during BIARI, and also the costs of international air travel and U.S. airport transfers to Providence, will be paid by the institute.

Please forward this announcement to your collaborators, colleagues, advanced PhD students, and other appropriate networks of scholars from the Global South who work in the area of Population and Development, to encourage them to apply.

Further details are available at http://www.brown.edu/biari.

To apply for BIARI 2012, please visit:

http://brown.edu/about/administration/international-affairs/biari/apply/apply

See below for a more detailed description of the Population and Development Institute. 

Please feel free to contact biari@brown.edu with any questions. 

Bianca Dahl (bianca_dahl@brown.edu)

and Daniel Jordan Smith (daniel_j_smith@brown.edu)

Co-conveners, Brown International Advanced Research Institute on Population and Development, 2012

Population and Development: New Approaches to Enduring Global Problems

In the year when the world’s population officially passed seven billion, this Institute will address the crucial and interlinked issues of population and development, particularly as they affect people in the global south. Participants will engage with cutting-edge theory, tested and innovative research methods, and examples of first-rate scholarship upon which to build their own research programs.

What are the most significant population issues in the 21st century? How do population dynamics and the policies designed to address them contribute to—or detract from—equitable development?  How can theories and methods in the social sciences contribute to understanding the relationship between population and development, and how can this scholarship contribute to better policies and programs? Convened by faculty at Brown's Population Studies and Training Center, and bringing together academics and policy-makers from multiple disciplines whose work addresses such questions, this Institute aims to establish a dynamic network of scholars, creating prospects for collaborative and comparative research and offering opportunities for rich intellectual exchange and joint publications. 

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