{"id":72387,"date":"2020-12-18T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=72387"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:27","slug":"carleton-welcoming-women-researchers-in-qes-advanced-scholars-west-africa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-welcoming-women-researchers-in-qes-advanced-scholars-west-africa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Welcoming Women Researchers in QES Advanced Scholars West Africa Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Welcoming Women Researchers in QES Advanced Scholars West Africa Program\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Carleton University is one of 11 Canadian universities to receive funding from the new Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) Advanced Scholars West Africa program<\/a> to work together to find solutions to the world\u2019s increasingly complex challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is led by Nduka Otiono<\/a>, a distinguished scholar in Carleton\u2019s Institute of African Studies<\/a> in collaboration with various African partners. It\u2019s called Wurin ta na yin rubutu<\/em>, meaning her own room to write<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

External project partners include IMPACT-Partnership Africa<\/a>, CODE<\/a>, Africa-Canada Chamber of Commerce<\/a> and Aisha Ibrahim, assistant deputy vice-chancellor of Fourah Bay College at the University of Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are honoured to be the recipient of a second QES Grant and to be able to put into practice what we have learned from our first project that involved scholars in the African countries of Tanzania, Malawi and Ghana,\u201d said Karen Schwartz, Carleton\u2019s associate vice-president (Research and International).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis project is wholly women-centred because women are disadvantaged in completing the requirements for PhDs and early career advancement due to institutional prejudice and cultural barriers to finding the time and space to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research from the British Council and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) shows low rates of completion of PhDs in sub-Saharan Africa and inequities in terms of gender, as well as limited alignment of engagement with industry, the private sector and societal needs. This project aims to combat these challenges by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n