The Wits School of Law and International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam is offering scholarship and fellowship opportunities to prospective PhD applicants who wants to undergo a doctorate degree at the Institution.

Applicants who are successfully admitted to the programme will be waived of tuition fees from both ISS and Wits.

Country To Be Taken: South Africa and The Netherlands

Fields of Study: PhD applicants are encouraged to select from a range of topics in international law, society and development such as:

  • Critical, development-oriented aspects of trade and investment
  • Socio-economic deprivation
  • Human rights and humanitarian law
  • Gender
  • Health and the environment

Eligible Countries: Africans

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Applicants must be at entry-level for a PhD with an average of at least 70% in a Master’s degree within a relevant area.
  • Applicants must be African students
  • Applicants must have completed their masters degree and bachelors degree program at any recognized Institution.
  • Applicants must have excellent results from previous educational programs

Method of Application: Interested applicants may apply for entry into the ISS-Wits Joint PhD Programme by emailing the following to Ms Raquel McBride Raquel.McBride@wits.ac.za:

  1. An expression of interest that outlines the gist of the PhD study that you wish to undertake (approximately five pages in length excluding your preliminary bibliography);
  2. Academic transcript;
  3. Curriculum Vitae.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15th June, 2017

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