The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Planning and Governance, Mbarara
University of Science and Technology (MUST), Uganda and the Institute of Development Policy
(IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium, invite applications for a four-year, full-time position as
Doctoral Researcher.
The position provides the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree in development studies in
an international development institute (IOB) with high academic standards and an
interdisciplinary environment. The PhD Fellow conducts fieldwork-based doctoral research
with a focus on social relations between hosts and refugees in Uganda.
This position is financed as part of a grant from the Flemish Interuniversity council (VLIR-UOS)
for the project “Making Refugee Integration Sustainable: In Search of Durable Relations with
Host Populations In Uganda” led by Dr. Frank Ahimbisibwe (MUST) and Dr. Bert Ingelaere
(IOB).