Channel Foundation, through its Women Leadership Scholarship programme, is offering scholarships for women in grassroots organising. Also, two universities in Canada are now seeking applicants for their joint programme on Visiting Scholars in Feminist Perspectives on Globalisation. Find out how you can apply.

Women's Leadership Scholarship Programme

The Women's Leadership Scholarship (WLS) programme is now accepting applications from women activists, grassroots leaders, and organisers from the global South and/or from indigenous groups, who aim to pursue non-doctoral graduate education in human rights, sustainable development, and public health around the world. The programme will award four to eight scholarships of $25,000 each year, for a maximum of two years.

Formerly known as the Native Leadership Scholarship, WLS is a program of the Channel Foundation, a small, private foundation based in USA that aims to fund and create opportunities for groups working in many regions of the world to ensure the protection of women's human rights.

Applicants should be committed to grassroots organising and have at least three years of work experience dealing with critical human rights concerns, and other social, educational, environmental, health, or economic conditions that negatively affect their communities. Furthermore, they should have been accepted into a non-doctoral graduate program at an accredited university for full-time study or research related to their work experience. They should also intentd to return to their home countries to work, utilising training and research acquired in the study programme.

Interested applicants must submit their pre-application forms on or before March 23, 2007. Only qualified candidates will be asked to complete full applications.

To download forms and find out more information, visit <http://www.nativeleaders.org/>.

Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalisation

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies, Carleton University and the Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa are now seeking applicants for the Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalisation. This research programme, with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency and the International Development Research Centre, offers highly qualified researchers the opportunity to spend a research term in one of the two universities. For the year 2007-2008, the chosen scholar, from any developing country in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific, will be based at the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa.

The purpose of this programme is to attract qualified researchers from developing countries working within a feminist perspective on globalisation in one of the following areas: agriculture, basic education, child protection, health and nutrition, HIV/AIDS, information and communication technologies (ICTs), human rights, democratization and good governance, conflict and peace-building, private sector development, infrastructure services (capacity building), social and economic equity, or environment and natural resource management.

Scholars, both tenured and untenured faculty, working on post doctoral researches, and who are pursuing critical feminist research are welcome to apply. Applicants are expected to be fluent in French, have completed a PhD degree, have already published in scholarly publications, and have a current and established research project.

Applications can be submitted in English or French and should include an abbreviated curriculum vitae, a letter of intent outlining the research that will be undertaken in Canada, a list of recent publications, availability during the 2007-2008 academic year, and the names and addresses (postal and e-mail) of two referees.

The closing date for submitting applications is March 15, 2007. Send applications to the Selection Committee, Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalisation, c/o Hélène Boudreault, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa, 143 Séraphin-Marion, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada, or email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Visit the University of Ottawa, Institute of Women's Studies <http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/index.asp> or the Carleton College Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies <http://www.carleton.ca/womensstudies/>, for more details.