Programmes
Partnership with Makerere University's School of Women and Gender Studies
The School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University in collaboration with the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (hereafter FCRJ), SOAS, University of London invites applications for two funded split site PhDs in Gender Studies.
The School of Women and Gender Studies is Africa’s oldest and biggest School of Gender Studies with a mission of providing intellectual leadership for mainstreaming gender in all aspects of economic, political and social – cultural development. It is a multidisciplinary academic unit that is at the forefront of academic and community initiatives to address gender and development issues from an African perspective. The School works through a comprehensive strategy that includes teaching; research, publication and dissemination; outreach, networking and advocacy; and gender mainstreaming.
FCRJ is one of several officially constituted research centres at SOAS, University of London. FCRJ, which is in the College of Law, Anthropology and Politics focuses on the majority world as geographies from which to build feminist imaginaries of “race”. The Centre brings together fields of enquiry that have developed in parallel: feminist theories on power, protests and change, studies of diasporas, critical race theories and migration studies. FCRJ’s mission is to become a global reference point for transnational knowledge on racial justice. We will forge a transnational understanding of racial justice by producing critical research to understand a problem – racism - and test strategies to build racial justice. The PhD studentships form part of the academic and research interventions of the Centre. Read more about the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice work here.