Jobs & funding

  • One new PhD positions in ethnoarchaeology open within BantUGent as part of Sara Pacchiarotti’s upcoming ERC-SG project CongUbangi. Apply here before December 23, 2023. 
  • Two new PhD positions in African linguistics open within BantUGent as part of Sara Pacchiarotti’s upcoming ERC-SG project CongUbangi. Apply here before December 20, 2023. 
  • Call 2024 open for UGent Special Research Fund – Doctoral Scholarships for Candidates from Developing Countries. BantUGent is happy to welcome new PhD students at all times. All relevant information can be found here.
  • Call open for FWO junior and senior postdoctoral fellowships. BantUGent is happy to welcome new postdoctoral researchers at all times. More information here. The call closes on 1 December 2023 at 5pm.
  • The UGent African Languages and Cultures program was recruiting a new Swahili teacher. The call for applications can be found here and is open until July 31, 2023.

  • The Research unit LLACAN (Langage, langues et cultures d’Afrique, CNRS-INALCO-EPHE, Paris) invited applications for 2 three-year PhD positions, as part of the project OriKunda: On the origins of Chikunda, “a language without a land”, funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-22-CE54-0009-01) in the form of a Research Grant awarded to Rozenn Guérois (PI, CNRS LLACAN): (1) PhD student position in historical-comparative linguistics. For details, see https://llacan.cnrs.fr/orikunda_phd1.pdf; (2) PhD student position in sociolinguistics. For details, see https://llacan.cnrs.fr/orikunda_phd2.pdf. Please contact Rozenn Guérois (rozenn.guerois@cnrs.fr) for additional information.

  • G-M de Schryver was inviting applications for a new postdoctoral fellow to carry out corpus-driven lexicographic research for a number of Bantu languages. The job advertisement was available here. Deadline for applications: September 26, 2022, 23:59 CET.
  • Global Minds FundShort Research Stays 2021-2022call 2021-2022 (deadline for applications: 25 October 2021 / 7 January 2022 / 22 April 2022, 5:00pm, Belgian time)
  • Special Research Fund – Doctoral Scholarships for Candidates from Developing Countries – call 2022 (deadline for applications: February 1, 2022)

  • The BantuFirst project was inviting applications for a new postdoctoral fellow to carry out quantitative historical-comparative linguistic research on West-Coastal Bantu. The job advertisement was available here. Deadline for applications: January 15, 2021, 23:59 CET.
  • The BantuFirst project was inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher in African Linguistics. Applications were invited here. Deadline for applications: October 11, 2020, 23:59 CET.
  • The BantuFirst project was inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher in African Archaeology. Applications were invited here. Deadline for applications: February 17, 2020, 23:59 CET.
  • Applications were invited for a one-year renewable postdoctoral research position starting in April 2019 to coordinate and carry out anthracological and archaeobotanical research within the ERC-funded BantuFirst project led by Prof. Dr. Koen Bostoen … DEADLINE Mar 07, 2019 17:00. See the call here.
  • Applications were invited for a one-year postdoctoral research position, starting in January 2018 and renewable twice with another year, to carry out historical-comparative linguistic research on West-Coastal Bantu languages within the ERC-funded BantuFirst project, led by Prof. Dr. Koen Bostoen … DEADLINE Nov 27, 2017 12:00. See the call here.
  • Applications were invited for a one-year postdoctoral research position, starting in January 2018 and renewable twice with another year, to coordinate and carry out archaeological research within the ERC-funded BantuFirst project, led by Prof. Dr. Koen Bostoen … DEADLINE Oct 31, 2017 12:00. See the call here.