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Application deadline: February 5, 2017 The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research is offering the following professional development courses in April and May 2017. Click on the links below to be directed to a specific course page. Advanced Research Design: https://www.pasgr.org/call-for-applications-advanced-research-design-course-april-2017/ Social Network Analysis: https://www.pasgr.org/call-for-applications-social-network-analysis-course-april-2017/ Action Research: https://www.pasgr.org/call-for-applications-action-research-course-may-2017/ Comparative Case Studies: https://www.pasgr.org/call-for-applications-comparative-case-studies-research-course-may-2017/ Survey Design […]

Course dates: May 1 to May 4, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Action Research. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students who would like to include multiple stakeholders in […]

Course dates: May 1 to May 4, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Survey Design and Execution. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in moving from general hypotheses […]

Course dates: May 1-4, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Comparative Case Studies Research. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in examining comparative case study designs and the […]

Course dates: April 26-29, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Social Network Analysis. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in exploring and applying the theoretical foundations and research […]

Course dates: April 19 to April 29, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering an 11-day professional development course in Advanced Research Design for Policy-Oriented Research. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in enhancing their […]

PASGR’s Professional Development Training (PDT) Programme took place at KCB Leadership Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. The Advanced Research Design (ARD) training – which is a multi‑discipline, professional short course – ran from October 26th to November 12th 2016. ARD is relevant to PhD students, academics and researchers looking to enhance their research design skills. […]

PASGR wishes to develop a three-day module on ‘Gendering Social Science Research Methods’. The module is to be delivered primarily to researchers, policy actors, academics, and graduate students. It should interrogate macro and micro power structures from a gender and intersectional perspective, and provide participants with the basic tools to critically incorporate these approaches in […]

Wangui Kimari, our first-ever intern, describes her one-year attachment to the Professional Training and Development (PDT) Programme as “very dynamic”. The PhD candidate at York University in Canada says “PASGR does a lot, but what it does is not always explicit.” PASGR’s social protection work, for instance, is not research to be kept on a […]

Rethinking and revamping its programmes and activities in line with PASGR’s Strategic Plan 2014-2018 was a major preoccupation of the Professional Development and Training programme (PDT) in 2015. Innovations in the design of delivery, content, pedagogy and the coordination of the courses were key elements that emerged in the latter part of the year. The […]