The Department of Geography at the University of Bonn is inviting applications for two PhD student positions from April 2026 to work on political ecologies of rural-urban water transfers in Kenya and Tanzania.
The positions are offered within the Collaborative Research Centre “Future Rural Africa – Future-Making and Social-Ecological Transformation” (www.futureruralafrica.de), as part of the sub-project “Green futures – the transformation of waterscapes in East Africa” led by Prof. Jessica Budds and Prof. Detlef Müller-Mahn, both in Development Geography, and Dr. Eric Kioko, Social Anthropologist at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, and in collaboration with partners in Kenya and Tanzania. Further details are available at: https://crc-trr228.de/c03-green-futures/
We strongly encourage qualified candidates from East Africa to apply.
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