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One of the primary objectives of the Centre is to strengthen the position of the Visiting Fellows, both in terms of their careers and in their role as leaders. This approach helps them to make a difference upon their return to their home countries.
The Centre accepts both Visiting Research Fellows and Visiting Study Fellows at different stages of their academic career. Visiting Research and Study Fellows follow individualised research or study programmes, which are developed in consultation with an academic advisor appointed by the Centre.
The Programme enables Visiting Fellows to access the rich academic resources of the University of Oxford. They can attend seminars, lectures and workshops, both within the Centre, Queen Elizabeth House and other University departments. The Programme provides scholars with opportunities to communicate and collaborate with other scholars from diverse disciplines.
Fellows are given desk space, computer facilities, internet connections and access to all of the University’s libraries, and are fully integrated into the social activities of the Centre and Queen Elizabeth House more generally. Visiting Fellows may stay for up to a year, or as little as a month, depending on individual needs.
Conditions for eligibility for the Fellowship bursary
- The candidates should have a proven track record of academic research and ideally a background in community engagement.
- As well as pursuing academic research, the candidates will be required to contribute to activities in Oxford life, academic and non-academic, by giving lectures, media interviews and so forth.
- At the end, the Visiting Fellow will submit a brief report to the funding institution.
How can you help?
We are seeking support for bursaries of £13,600 each in order to enable our most exceptional candidates to study at the Centre for a one-year period without financial constraints. A bursary of £13,600 would cover each Visiting Fellow’s academic fees, subsistence and travel, and encourage the very best fellows to come to Oxford.
Recognition
The University of Oxford has a long history of public acknowledgement of its benefactors. We would be delighted to discuss with you ways in which we could recognise and celebrate a gift to bursaries for Visiting Fellows, including the naming of the bursary scheme. We would also welcome your own suggestions regarding ongoing involvement with the Centre and the development of a strong and committed partnership with the University.
Testimonials from previous Visiting Fellows at IGS – making a difference
Dr. Sara Abu Rabia (Palestine/Israel) – E-mail: sarabab@zahav.net.il
Lecturer, Department of Desert Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
“As I was planning to find a congenial atmosphere where I could spend part of my post-doctoral research, I had the choice between going to Harvard graduate school of education or IGS at Oxford. I chose to come to IGS because of the warm and true feminist women I "met" through e-mail and other correspondence. I was impressed by their willingness to help me both as a woman and an Arab academic going through the difficulties of being a researcher in an Israeli university setting. I came to Oxford, as a post-doctoral fellow from the Hebrew University in Israel, with my family and two children. I was able to count of IGS members and the wider academic fraternity for their help in making us all feel welcome.
IGS provided me with the right academic and intellectual atmosphere to further my research work and participate in lectures and seminars at IGS, QEH and various departments. This gave me the opportunity to meet other researchers and a setting where I could give seminars and lectures about my own work and familiarise others about my own research findings. I was able to meet researchers from Pakistan, China, Japan, Belgium, Cyprus and Georgia (some were visiting fellows at IGS at the same time as I). I also met several Bedouin and non-Bedouin researchers who study Bedouin communities in Israel, and we are planning a conference next year in the UK. I continue to have close contact with the network of friends and colleagues I established during my visit to Oxford. I have since been able to write and publish joint papers with Oxford based colleagues as well as inviting IGS members and other scholars to a conference I am organizing at the Ben Gurion University. A special contribution by IGS was the fact they found me a publisher that was interested in my research and willing to publish my book on Bedouin women in Israel. .
Finally, I was able to secure my present position as lecturer in Desert Studies on the strength of what I have achieved during my stay at IGS. I hope to emulate IGS and empower and facilitate other Israel/Bedouin women in their academic endeavour by organising seminars and workshop and being a positive role model’.
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Dr. Marieme S. Lo (Senegal) - E-mail: mslo@buffalo.edu
Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Global Gender Studies State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
‘I owe many thanks to the IGS for providing me with both a physical space and a very stimulating and enriching intellectual environment to finalize my PhD dissertation at Cornell University in 2005. During my time at IGS I was able to build a network with peers from different countries. I am most grateful to the IGS faculty, staff, and larger community for their generous support, intellectual engagement and interactions. Above all, the visiting fellowship was instrumental to my academic career as I secured a tenure track teaching position during my visiting fellowship at IGS and it propelled my academic career and scholarship. The high level of creative energy, scholarship and mentoring inspire me in my current academic career as Assistant Professor in Global Gender Studies at the State University of New York. It has been such a positive experience in my life and career. I am eager to give back and donate to IGS to extend outreach and support to scholars, and to contribute to IGS sustainability in fulfilling its mission for many generations to come.’
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Hwayeong WANG (South Korea) – E-mail: felbre0801@hotmail.com
Ph.D. Candidate for Confucian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University Korea
‘My one year experience at IGS as a Visiting Study Fellow has been a great help to me in both my academic and personal life. When I came to IGS in 2006, I had just obtained a Master’s degree from Korea with minimal understanding of the theories of gender and religion. I was upgraded to Ph. D. after my stay in Oxford. Additionally, because I was able to strengthen my English Language skills and deepen my knowledge of gender and feminist issues, I have been appointed as assistant to the managing editor at Sungkyunkwan University’s English journal, the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, which is dedicated to East Asian Studies.
First of all, I benefited greatly the VSF programme. IGS organized tutorials with experts in gender/feminism/religious studies who gave me weekly tutorials on various issues. Secondly, IGS holds a weekly seminar on various issues. IGS members and other scholars and students gather there. I was therefore able to have numerous opportunities to establish a vast personal network with people from different backgrounds and enjoy stimulating intellectual debates. I felt that IGS was like a big scholarly family. Most importantly, I was able to attend classes, seminars and lecture of great importance and interest to Confucian studies held in various departments. IGS provided me with my own personal desk, computer, internet access and continuous tutoring/mentoring by several members of the Centre and just as importantly the use of all libraries and the Bodleian to pursue my research. The tutorial and mentoring have enabled me to deepen my understanding of gender, religion and feminist issues, which I was able to use in my research Ph.D. proposal and have since guided the way I conduct my research. IGS enabled me to establish a network of Korean Researchers based in Korea and at Oxford and doing research on Confucian studies.
I was invited back to give a paper at the IGS’s ‘Women and Faith-Based Development’ workshop. The Centre secured funding for me to attend the workshop. The article from the paper will be published in the forthcoming IGS book on the same subject. I can say with confidence that IGS is a world-class centre not only in gender studies, but also in the world academy which provides such a unique and wonderful opportunity to people from all over the world.’
Visiting fellows: 1983-2010
2009-2010
Profiles
Dr Leyla Pervizat, Trainer in human rights for Amnesty International, Turkey and the Government’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA)
Dr Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Senior Lecturer at the Swiss Institute for Environmental Research and the Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University
Dr Helen Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Queensland
Marianna Leite
Sara K. Sanders, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego
Mung Lar Lam, Lecturer at the California College of Arts and instructor at the Art Institute of California
Dr Deirdre Raftery, Deputy Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, at University College Dublin
2008-2009
Dr Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder, Jerusalem Hebrew University, Israel
Dr Tin Tin Htun, Ostuma Women’s University, Japan
Dr Lynette M. Parker, University of Western Australia
Dr Sundari Shanmuga Sundaram Mother Theresa Women University, Tamil Nadu, India
2007-2008
Dr Marcelo Frediani, ACLA- College Erasme, Belgium
Dr Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder, Jerusalem Hebrew University, Israel
Tone Sommerfelt, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr Ignacy-Marek Kaminski, Mejiro University’s Centre for International Education, Japan
Tamta Khalvashi, Giorgian University of Social Sciences, Tiblisi
Mariko Jitsukawa, Tokyo Tamagawa University, Japan
Dr Xu Lili, Langhou University, Gansu Province, China
Dr Sui Jingjun, Shui Jinjun, Henan Academy of Social Sciences, China
Agata Zieba, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
Ferdiye Fersoy, Girne American University, Northern Cyprus
2005-2006
Dr Lea Vosko, York University, Canada
Dr Elisabetta Zontini, London South Bank University
Hwa Yeong Wang, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Dr Lori Handrahan, CUNY Center, Washington, USA
Dr Basma Allmutlaq, SOAS and Saudi Arabia
Dr Jonina Einarsdottir, University of Iceland
Dr Sonita Sarker, Macalester College, USA
2004-2005
Dr Meryl Altman, DePau University, USA
Dr ChungSoon Lee, BaekSeok University, South Korea
Dr Ingrid Sandole-Staroste, George Mason University, USA
Hanae Nose, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr Marieme Lo, Cornell University, USA
Dr Sinikka Vakimo, University of Joensuu, Finland
Dr Francesca Broggi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rahel Kunz, University of Geneva, Switzerland,
2003-2004
Dr Emilia Ferraro, University of Quito, Ecuador (Goldman Sachs Visiting Fellowship Award)
Dr Jennifer Corrin, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Adrianna Semmens, Griffith University, Australia
Marian Van Bakel, University of Nijmegan, Netherlands
Berna Numan, Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus
Lia Chavez, University of Denven, USA
Jasmine Champenois, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Layik Mesutoglu, Ministry of Planning, Lefkosa-Kibris, Northern Cyprus
Shamis Hussein, Independent Consultant, Somalia
Danica Minic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Cristina Galvao, (Goldman Sachs Visiting Fellow), Brazil
2002-2003
Dr Noorul Ainur Mohd., Ministry of Planning Malaysia (Goldman Sachs Visiting Fellow)
Dr Hilde Liden, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Marian Van Bakel, University of Nijmegan
Terhas Hagos, Independent Consultant, Eritrea
2001-2002
Dr Adaeze Igboemeka, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
Emefa Amoako, Wadham College, University of Oxford/Ghana
Noriko Watanabe, Institute of Education, University of London/Japan
Percy Oware, University of Tromso, Norway/Ghana
2000-2001
Dr Afaf Abu-Hasabo, UNDP, Djibouti, Sudan
Lise Kagenow, Dancom Ltd., Berlin, Germany.
Jin-Kyeong Kim, former Reuters fellow, Korea
Dr Regine Bendl, Vienna University of Economics & Business Admin., Austria
Noriko Kawanaka, Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan
Bronwen Byers, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Eva Poluha, Stockholm University, Sweden
Nuria Roldan Arrazola, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
1999-2000
Takashi Ando, International Christian University, Japan
Grace Ave, Independent Consultant, Ghana
Regine Bendl, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Professor Gloria Emeagwali, Connecticut State University, USA
Dr Esther Hertzog, Beit Beri College, Kfar Saba & Hebrew University, Israel
Noriko Kawanaka, Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan
Professor Ulla Vuorela, Helsinki University, Finland
1998-1999
Fatima Amrani, University Mohamed Ben Abdalla, Morocco
Said Graouid, Rabat University, Morocco
Professor Yil-Jung Kim, Kwangju Women’s University, Korea
Mourad Mkinsi, University IBM Tofail, Morocco
Dr Edeltraud Ranftl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Dr Santi Rozario, University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr Megumi Takasaki, International Christian University, Japan
1997-1998
Dr Pearl Drego, Centre for Education Research and Training, India
Akiko Ishikawa, International Christian University, Japan
Dr Maria Jaschok, Monash University, Australia
Dr Jody Raphael, Taylor Institute, USA
Barbara Ritchie, Gibraltar
Yoriko Tatsumi, International Christian University, Japan
Nu Nu Yi, Novelist, Burma
1996-1997
Dr Joseph-Therese Agbasiere, AMECEA Pastoral Institute, Kenya
Hanife Aliefendioglu, Directorate General on the Status of Women, Turkey
Dr Keziah Awosika, Women, Law and Development Centre, Nigeria
Professor Shobhita Jain, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
Dr Sandy Toussaint, University of Western Australia
Masami Yomura, International Christian University, Japan
1995-1996
Dr Arati Basu, Delhi University, India
Shakila Daniel, Community Health and Development Programme, Pakistan
Dr Shirlena Huang, National University of Singapore
Ashok Koshy, Indian Administrative Service, India
Dr Jennifer Lemon, University of South Africa
Hirut Terefe, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Chisa Uchida, International Christian University, Japan
Professor Marjorie McIntyre, University of Calgary, Canada
1994-1995
John Branch, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Rennes
Dr Saadia Chishti, Commonwealth Human Ecology Council, Pakistan
Noriko Ide, International Christian University, Japan
Dr Mara Mabilia, University of Turin, Italy
Dr Vijaya Nagarajan, University of California, USA
Professor Masami Ohinata, Keisen Jogakuen College, Japan
Dr Maria Quinteiro, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Professor Carol Schloss, West Chester University, USA
Masami Yomura, International Christian University, Japan
1993-1994
Dr Dawn Chatty, Oman
Betty Dooley, Women’s Research and Education Center, USA
Dr Kjersti Larsen, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr Bong-Scuk Sohn, Centre for Korean Women and Politics, Korea
Professor Lieve Spaas, Roehampton Institute, UK
1992-1993
Professor Vangie Bergum, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr Cathie Cairns, Canada
Dr Renuka Singh, India
Hong Wan, China
Guo Xiaohui, People’s University, China
1991-1992
Professor Tomilayo Adekanye, Ibadan University, Nigeria
Margaret Niger-Thomas, Cameroon
Dr Shirley Nuss, USA and Thailand
Dr Mai Yamani, Saudi Arabia
1990-1991
Dr Ellen Bortei-Doku, University of Ghana
Kyoko Koizumi, Japan
Helen Wang, Ministry of Finance, Singapore
1989-1990
Grace Alma Ave, University of Ghana
Professor Georgina Buijs, Rhodes University, South Africa
Alison Chapman, UK
Paula Heinonen, Ethiopia
Liu Hong, International Television Corporation, China
Dr Adeola James, University of British Guyana
Dr Tabitha Kanongo, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Deepa Singh, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India
Dr Sarah Skar, University of Oslo, Norway
1988-1989
Professor Jamilah Ariffin, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Dr Joan Burke, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Nigeria
Noriyo Hayakawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Professor Dorothy Helly, Hunter College, USA
Professor Priscilla Wanjiru Kariuki, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr B. Rocksloh-Papendieck, University of Berlin, Germany
1987-1988
Dr Gillian Cook, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr Maria Bodini Sant’Ana, Brazil
1986-1987
Dr Stephen Ameyaw, Waterloo University, Canada
Professor Akwasi Assensoh, Dillard University, USA
Dr Ide Pakarae Kandjou, Namibia
1985-1986
Seema Agarwal, University of London, UK
Funiwe Njobe, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Dr Rosemary Noritz, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr Daniela Roher, Michigan, USA
Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte, Copenhagen University, Denmark
1984-1985
Dr Lorraine Code, Queen’s University, Canada
Dr Ilse Kirk, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Professor Vanessa Maher, Turin University, Italy
Professor Marjorie Mbilinyi, Univerity of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Professor Irene Szyliowicz, University of Denver, USA
Professor Audrey Wipper, Waterloo University, Canada
Gladys Yang, Foreign Languages Press, China
1983-1984
Dr Susan Dyer, Duke University, USA
Dr Sabine Willis, Macquairie University, Australia
Dr Julie Marcus, University of New South Wales, Australia
Mandira Sen, Mandira Press, India
Malathi Subramanian, Delhi University, India
Dr Geeta Somjee, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
