Eastern Africa Centre events
2025
February
- 25 - 26 February:
March
- 11 - 12 March: 2nd Annual Eastern Africa Centre Symposium
- Welcome pack and .
Past events
January
- 17 January: Professor Mazeda Hossain's Inaugural Lecture
February
- 22 – 23 February:EAC Side-Event: People's Health Conference. Kampala, Uganda
- 28 February: 1st Annual Eastern Africa Centre Symposium
April
June
- 11 - 13 June: 3 Day Workshop:
July
- 1 July: NTU EAC and FSHI Sociology of Global Health and Development Symposium
- 12 July: NTU Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Partnership Fund (IPF) Dissemination Event: Tackling antimicrobial resistance together and Global Capacity Building Programme
February
- NTU Global Week and VC Global Question Time
June
- NTU Connecting Global Conference, Erasmus+, NTU Clifton Campus
July
- Erasmus+ Symposium, Brackenhurst Kenya
June
- NTU Connecting Global Conference, Erasmus+, NTU Clifton Campus
October
- EAC Launch Event, Nairobi, Kenya
- EA PhD Hub MoU signing and Workshop, Brackenhurst Kenya
Other events, conferences and workshops
Upcoming events
January
February
- 25 - 26 February:
- Deadline 28 February: Call for Abstracts: 8th AFREhealth Annual Symposium (22 - 24 September. Dakar, Senegal)
March
- 11 - 12 March: 2nd Annual Eastern Africa Centre Symposium - (Welcome Pack) and ()
- 18 March: REAL Centre Seminar in collaboration with BAICE, University of Cambridge
June and July
- 29 June - 4 July
September
- 22 - 24 September: 8th AFREhealth Annual Symposium, Dakar, Senegal
Past events
January
- 17 January: Professor Mazeda Hossain's Inaugural Lecture | Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé
- 22 – 26 January:
- 22 – 24 January: Expert Workshop: Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa - A Research Agenda. Bern, Switzerland
- Deadline 30 January: Open call for conference papers
February
- 7-8 February:
- 22 – 23 February:
April
May
- 10 May:
- 21 May:
- 24 May: NTU Global Lounge World Africa Day
- Deadline 24 May: Open call for conference papers
June
- 5 – 7 June:
- 24 - 29 June:
- 27 - 28 June:
September
- 10 - 11 September:
- Deadline 30 Sept:
October
- 21 – 25 October:
November
- 18 – 22 November:
November
- 13 November:
- Deadline 15 November: Open call for conference papers
- 27 – 30 November:
December
- Deadline 11 December: Open call for conference papers
- Deadline 12 December: Open call for conference papers
Funding and Educational Opportunities
Undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships
NTU offers a range of prestigious and competitive scholarships to African students. You'll find details of the awards, plus terms and conditions on the explore NTU scholarships page.
NTU Funding Opportunities
NTU fully funded PhD studentships
Available studentships to apply for:
One Health drivers of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections in rural Ugandan communities
Overview:
This project will combine microbiological and public health approaches to studying the prevalence and transmission routes of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and factors contributing to their spread, in rural Ugandan communities, to answer the following research questions: What human, animal, and environmental factors contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria in rural Ugandan communities, and what roles might CHWs play in mitigating these?
- School: School of Science and Technology
- Study mode(s): Full-time
- Starting: 2025
- Funding: UK student / EU student (non-UK) / Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé student (non-EU) / Fully- funded
- This is a fully funded PhD studentship opportunity, open for both UK and international applicants
- Essential: Willingness to spend time in both the UK and Uganda during the project.
- Essential: Ability to communicate in the Luganda language
- Desirable: wet lab microbiology skills.
- The closing date for applications is Friday, 14 February 2025
- Find out more about Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé's fully funded PhD studentships
- Find out about guidance and support for PhD students.
Closing date: Friday 14 February 2025
Eastern Africa Centre (EAC) Fully Funded PhD at Distance Studentships
Previous studentships:
- Biocultural Restoration of Kenyan Ecosystems
Funding for this PhD was provided by the NTU Eastern Africa Centre.
A selection of previous Africa-related NTU fully funded PhD Studentships:
- Climate change politics in authoritarian states: how to talk about climate change under political constraints
- Foreign Policy, Agency and Africa Approaches to Global Health
- Pathways to resilience of agro-pastoral communities in Kenya
- Use of local plant materials to reduce greenhouse gas production from small ruminants in sub-Saharan Africa
- Exploring the role of communities in addressing antimicrobial resistance using a socio-ecological lens
Eastern Africa Centre (EAC) Fully Funded PhD at Distance Studentships
Previous studentships:
- The role of soundscapes in monitoring ecological restoration
Funding for this PhD was provided by the NTU Eastern Africa Centre.