CODESRIA Grants and Fellowships
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
CODESRIA, headquartered in Dakar and operating fully in French and English, is the pan-African social science research council and the single most important non-Northern funder of African social research careers. Its grants and fellowships strand now runs through the College of Senior Academic Mentors, which pairs doctoral students registered at African universities with senior diaspora academics for proposal and chapter feedback, reading materials, methodological guidance and conference networking; Support to Doctoral Schools, which funds humanities and social science doctoral schools to run
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award amounts are published on the grants and fellowships page for any of the strands (College of Senior Academic Mentors, Support to Doctoral Schools, Advanced Humanities Fellowships). No figure recorded because none is stated.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Calls are issued periodically and announced on the CODESRIA news and announcements page; the grants page references a past call for proposals but publishes no future deadline. Note that the Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing is archived and should not be applied to.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Doctoral-level awards require registration at an African university — the College of Senior Academic Mentors is restricted to doctoral candidates, and the earlier thesis-writing grant was narrowed to doctoral candidates before being archived. Support to Doctoral Schools is applied for by the doctoral school or humanities/social science centre at an African university, not by an individual, and requires involvement of academics from other African universities or from the African diaspora. Advanced Humanities Fellowships are for senior academics in the humanities. Applicants outside African inst
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- african social science research · doctoral mentorship · doctoral schools · research methodology training · humanities fellowships
- Apply at
- https://codesria.org/grants-fellowships/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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