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Title

Co-designing and assessing the socio-economic impacts of climate-smart Vegetable-Integrated Push鈥揚ull Technology on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Kenya.

The research project

The PhD project is part of a five-year research project (April 2026 鈥� March 2031) entitled 鈥楨cology-based Climate Resilient Innovation for Sustainable Vegetable Intensification in Eastern Africa (EcoVeg4Africa)鈥�. The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs funds the research project through the Danida Fellowship Centre. You can read more about the project here:

The goal of the research project is to enable smallholder farmers in Kenya and Ethiopia, particularly women and youth, to use fewer or no hazardous pesticides in vegetable production, improve plant nutrition, water status, and soil health, reduce crop losses caused by harmful pests, and increase production of safer, more nutritious, and higher-value food crops. The basis for this work is a nature-based, climate-smart vegetable production system known as Vegetable-Integrated Push鈥揚ull Technology (VIPPT). This system will be developed and tested in the project, and VIPPT pairs of local and high-value crops will be identified. The idea of the VIPPT system is that some companion plants repel pests within the crop (鈥減ush鈥�), while border plants attract pests away from the crop (鈥減ull鈥�).听

The PhD project

The PhD project focuses on identifying drivers and barriers for adoption of the VIPPT system, drawing on input from farmers, extension officers, and local authorities across contrasting Agro-ecological zones using an agroecology living lab approach. The PhD project also focuses on a socio-economic assessment of the VIPPT system following the introduction of the most promising crop鈥揷ompanion pairs grown under field conditions.听

The core elements of the project:

• Mapping vegetable production systems and identifying the potentials and challenges of vegetable production by smallholders in Kenya using a living lab approach
• Assess farmers鈥� preferences for vegetable companion crops suitable for their farming system听
• Study smallholder farmers and subsistence markets for vegetable products to understand how farmers can benefit economically from increased vegetable production using the VIPPT-adapted system听
• Evaluate economic feasibility, including market value and profitability of vegetable crops to ensure sustainability and adoption, particularly by women and youth.听
• Designing, researching, collecting and analysing data, drafting scientific papers for publications in peer-reviewed journals, and contributing to writing policy briefs and practical guidelines.
• Dissemination of research findings to local, regional, and national stakeholders through conferences and workshops.听

Eligibility criteria

• A relevant MSc degree in social sciences, preferably agricultural economics, agribusiness management, or a closely related field from an institution recognised by the 吃瓜头条 Senate.
• Preference will be given to applicants who completed their master鈥檚 degree within the last six years.
• The master’s degree must be obtained through a program that includes coursework, examinations, and thesis work with a minimum average grade of B (or its equivalent).
• The MSc work must demonstrate the capacity to conceptualise, design, and undertake independent research through a master鈥檚 thesis, scholarly publications, technical reports, or other equivalent research outputs.
• Evidence of research dissemination through publications, conference presentations, technical reports, or equivalent scholarly outputs will be an added advantage.听
• Having a strong interest in engaging with farmers and in field-based research.
• Knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including survey research and interviewing.
• Strong knowledge of analytical software (STATA, SPSS, and R).听
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in an international, multidisciplinary team.

Additional requirements

• The applicant must already have registered for a PhD at 吃瓜头条.
• The applicant must be able to work full-time on the PhD project for 48 months. Research funds, tuition, and a stipend are included.听
• The PhD student must spend part of the research time at ICIPE in Nairobi, conduct frequent fieldwork in Kenya, and undertake a short-term research stay at Aarhus University, Denmark.

How to apply

• Application deadline: 1. August 2026 at 23:59.听
• All application documents should be submitted as a single PDF attachment via email to:听dean-graduate@ku.ac.ke听
• Documents to be submitted (non-returnable)
  • Curriculum Vitae.
  • Scanned copies of BSc and MSc degrees with their corresponding transcripts.听
  • Weighted and unweighted Grade Point Averages of BSc and MSc.
  • Documentation of research competencies through a master鈥檚 thesis, scholarly publications, technical reports, or other equivalent research outputs.
  • A published paper in a peer-reviewed journal/at an international conference
  • Motivation letter (one page explaining your motivation for applying)
  • One or more recommendations.

Please note

• Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, or socio-economic background. Women and candidates from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Documents received before the application deadline will be evaluated.听
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview.
• The anticipated start date: 1 September 2026.

Further information

If you have questions regarding the PhD project, please do not hesitate to contact:

The PhD supervisors:

• Gabriel Mwenjeri at 吃瓜头条, Mwenjeri.gabriel@ku.ac.ke (main supervisor, PhD content)
• Beatrice Muriithi at ICIPE, bmuriithi@icipe.org (co-supervisor, PhD content)
• Lars Esbjerg at Aarhus University, lae@mgmt.au.dk (co-supervisor, PhD content)
• Mesfin Tsegaye Gebremikael at Aarhus University, mesfin.gebremikael@food.au.dk (co-supervisor, PhD content).
• Michael Muita Gicheru at 吃瓜头条, gicheru.michael@ku.ac.ke (co-supervisor,听

management and support).

The PhD school at 吃瓜头条:

• Executive Dean, School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences: dean-enviromentalsciences@ku.ac.ke
• Executive Dean, Graduate School: dean-graduate@ku.ac.ke (help with uploading the application/questions about the recruitment process)听

The Department of Agricultural Economics at 吃瓜头条听

The Department of Agricultural Economics in the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at 吃瓜头条 is a leading academic unit committed to advancing sustainable and inclusive agricultural development through excellence in teaching, research, innovation, and community engagement. Guided by its vision of becoming a global leader in sustainable and equitable agricultural systems, the department offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in agricultural economics and agribusiness management. Currently, the department serves a vibrant student population comprising approximately 300 undergraduate students in agribusiness management, 100 master’s students in agribusiness management and agricultural economics, and a growing number of PhD students in both agribusiness management and agricultural economics. The department’s academic and research activities focus on critical areas such as food security and nutrition, agricultural technology and innovation, agricultural trade and policy, rural development and poverty reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, resource management, and sustainable agricultural value chains.

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吃瓜头条

Deadline for applications: 05 July 2026, at noon (East African Time)

吃瓜头条 (KU) invites qualified and motivated candidates to apply for a fully funded PhD position under the PlastiCITIES research program. Applicants should hold a graduate degree in the social sciences, broadly defined to include disciplines such as anthropology, African Studies, development studies, environmental studies, urban studies, political science, sociology and law.听 Your project will focus on plastics and the circular economy in Busia.

The PlastiCITIES research programme

Plastic waste contributes to climate change through emission of greenhouse gases and ocean pollution. The circular economy (CE) has gained traction over the past decade to address this problem. By designing out waste and recycling products back into the economy, CE promises to transform linear 鈥榤ake-take-waste鈥� economies into sustainable closed loop systems. For post-consumer plastics, CE means the transformation of (recyclable) plastics from end of life 鈥榳aste鈥� to 鈥榬esource鈥�. The scholarly literature on CE has largely approached the CE for plastics from technical, engineering, and business perspectives. Research is needed that examines the social implications of the drive towards a CE for plastics from the perspectives and experiences of those who do the 鈥榙irty work鈥� of collecting, sorting and processing plastic waste. PlastiCITIES examines how differently situated waste workers are responding to the drive toward a CE for plastics in urban Kenya.

Plastic pollution is a major problem in Kenya, where an estimated 37 kilotons of plastic waste leaks into the environment and ocean each year. Waste management is viewed as an urgent issue, especially in cities where waste accumulates in open dumpsites and blocks waterways. In response, the Kenyan government is adopting CE policies targeting the waste sector, including recently gazetted Extended Producer Responsibility legislation under the Sustainable Waste Management Act, which promotes the formalisation of the waste sector in which low-income informal waste workers have long gleaned a living. At the same time, evolving recycling technologies and growing demand for recycled plastics are driving new markets for plastic waste-turned-resource. We hypothesise that these interventions and economies are creating new commodity frontiers, understood as the incorporation of resources formerly deemed as lacking in economic value into the capitalist economy.

Waste workers are a differentiated set of low-income actors, often women, young men and migrants. They work in different activities in the plastics economy 鈥� washing, sorting, collecting, brokering 鈥� often in dangerous conditions. While existing studies of waste work tend to focus exclusively on waste pickers on dumpsites, PlastiCITIES innovates by mapping out and documenting emerging forms of waste work as new markets are developing in post-consumer plastics. A growing body of evidence from grey literature and newspaper reports suggests that, in the case of Kenya, new forms of formal and informal waste work are emerging in and around CE initiatives. Included in this are young men collecting plastics in lower middle-class neighbourhoods; beachcombers picking plastic waste washing up along Kenya鈥檚 coasts; and young women and men trying to work the price differentials in plastics along the Uganda-Kenya border. There are also new more formalized opportunities for waste work taken up in plastic recycling factories and with licensed waste collection companies, often supported by NGOs and government initiatives. Knowledge of these new and emerging forms of waste work is tentative and fragmentary, as are the possible relationships they have to each other, and to waste pickers who continue to collect, sort and process plastics in municipal dumpsites. PlastiCITIES is designed to provide new knowledge and analysis of these existing, new and emerging forms of waste work.

Primary data collection will be organised around three sites in urban Kenya that have been selected for different configurations of governance structures, CE interventions and waste worker population characteristics. These are: 1. Mombasa, 听which hosts a number of plastic waste initiatives due to the problem of ocean plastics, many of which aim to include informal workers in the emerging plastic waste economy; 2. Nairobi, where densely populated areas struggle with large volumes of plastic waste and an aggressive private sector seeks to profit from waste management; 听and 3. Busia,听 a border-town struggling with large amounts of plastic waste that enters Kenya as contraband from Uganda and where competing bodies of national and county legislation shape the economy in post-consumer plastics.

The advertised PhD project will focus on Busia, and will include long term qualitative fieldwork.

PlastiCITIES is an international collaboration between the University of Copenhagen (Hannah Elliott, Ben Jones), 吃瓜头条 (Akinyi Eurallyah, Eric Kioko), and Busara (Juhi Jain, Mario Schmidt).

The main supervisor will be Dr. Eric Kioko, the project lead at 吃瓜头条, with co-supervision by Prof. Ben Jones at University of Copenhagen. 听The PhD student will have the opportunity for a research stay at University of Copenhagen鈥檚 Centre of African Studies to gain insight into academic research and for networking opportunities. PhD students will also have the opportunity to use office space at Busara.

General conditions for the PhD positions

1. The positions are fully funded and include a competitive stipend and educational fees.
2. The successful PhD candidates will be enrolled at 吃瓜头条, in the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development.
3. The scholarships will run for three years, starting in September 2026, and include a research stay in Denmark.
4. The candidates are expected to carry out at least 6 months of fieldwork in the specified project focus area. They are also expected to participate fully in PlastiCITIES activities and meet the requirements of the KU PhD school.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants should:

1. Hold a bachelor鈥檚 degree (minimum, Second Class Honours) and a master鈥檚 degree (Excellent or Credit) in a relevant social sciences discipline (anthropology, African Studies, environmental studies, development studies or another relevant field).
2. Be highly motivated to pursue full time doctoral studies and develop an academic career.
3. Be willing to conduct fieldwork in the preselected study area, and preferably have previous fieldwork experience or at least experience with qualitative methods.
4. Have research experience in East Africa
5. Ideally have prior engagement with studying waste, circular economy, environmental governance, and related issues.
6. Be willing to travel and actively participate in the project activities.
7. Demonstrate strong writing and communication skills.
8. Be a constructive and engaged team member.
9. Be eligible for residency in Kenya, if not already granted.
10. Demonstrate skills in academic writing

Application process

Applicants are invited to submit a short PhD concept note of approximately four pages (maximum 1,600 words, excluding references) outlining the focus of their proposed research project. The concept note must include the following elements:

1. Statement of the research problem and specific research questions.
2. Theoretical framework.
3. Proposed study area.
4. Methodological approach, including fieldwork considerations.
5. Practical considerations, including field access and security.
6. Ethical considerations.
7. Time plan.

PLEASE NOTE: Concept notes generated through AI or featuring AI in their content will not be considered. The panel will use AI detection tools to identify generative AI.

The concept note must be accompanied by the following documents:

1. A detailed CV outlining the applicant鈥檚 educational and professional background (2 pages max).
2. Certified copies of academic certificates and transcripts.
3. An electronic copy of the applicant鈥檚 MA thesis
4. Relevant publications
5. Contact details for two academic referees.

All application documents must be organised into a single PDF file.

When and where?

The deadline for submitting applications is July 05th, 2026 at 12:00 PM (East African Time).

Applications should be sent by email with the subject title 鈥�PlastiCITIES PhD application – BUSIA鈥� to Dr. Eric Kioko, kioko.eric@ku.ac.ke and Prof. Ben Jones (bwj@teol.ku.dk). For more information about the PhD call, please contact Dr. Eric Kioko and/or Prof. Ben Jones.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The assessment committee will consist of a panel of PlastiCITIES researchers. All applications will be considered by the end of July 2026 and ONLY successful candidates will be notified by 15.08.2026. 听If you do not hear from us, please consider your application as unsuccessful. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a two-stage interview process in August 2026. Stage 1 will be an online interview, while Stage 2 will be an in-person written interview.

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吃瓜头条

Deadline for applications: 05 July 2026, at noon (East African Time)

吃瓜头条 (KU) invites qualified and motivated candidates to apply for a fully funded PhD position under the PlastiCITIES research program. Applicants should hold a graduate degree in the social sciences, broadly defined to include disciplines such as anthropology, African Studies, development studies, environmental studies, urban studies, political science, sociology and law.听 Your project will focus on plastics and the circular economy in Mombasa.

The PlastiCITIES research programme

Plastic waste contributes to climate change through emission of greenhouse gases and ocean pollution. The circular economy (CE) has gained traction over the past decade to address this problem. By designing out waste and recycling products back into the economy, CE promises to transform linear 鈥榤ake-take-waste鈥� economies into sustainable closed loop systems. For post-consumer plastics, CE means the transformation of (recyclable) plastics from end of life 鈥榳aste鈥� to 鈥榬esource鈥�. The scholarly literature on CE has largely approached the CE for plastics from technical, engineering, and business perspectives. Research is needed that examines the social implications of the drive towards a CE for plastics from the perspectives and experiences of those who do the 鈥榙irty work鈥� of collecting, sorting and processing plastic waste. PlastiCITIES examines how differently situated waste workers are responding to the drive toward a CE for plastics in urban Kenya.

Plastic pollution is a major problem in Kenya, where an estimated 37 kilotons of plastic waste leaks into the environment and ocean each year. Waste management is viewed as an urgent issue, especially in cities where waste accumulates in open dumpsites and blocks waterways. In response, the Kenyan government is adopting CE policies targeting the waste sector, including recently gazetted Extended Producer Responsibility legislation under the Sustainable Waste Management Act, which promotes the formalisation of the waste sector in which low-income informal waste workers have long gleaned a living. At the same time, evolving recycling technologies and growing demand for recycled plastics are driving new markets for plastic waste-turned-resource. We hypothesise that these interventions and economies are creating new commodity frontiers, understood as the incorporation of resources formerly deemed as lacking in economic value into the capitalist economy.

Waste workers are a differentiated set of low-income actors, often women, young men and migrants. They work in different activities in the plastics economy 鈥� washing, sorting, collecting, brokering 鈥� often in dangerous conditions. While existing studies of waste work tend to focus exclusively on waste pickers on dumpsites, PlastiCITIES innovates by mapping out and documenting emerging forms of waste work as new markets are developing in post-consumer plastics. A growing body of evidence from grey literature and newspaper reports suggests that, in the case of Kenya, new forms of formal and informal waste work are emerging in and around CE initiatives. Included in this are young men collecting plastics in lower middle-class neighbourhoods; beachcombers picking plastic waste washing up along Kenya鈥檚 coasts; and young women and men trying to work the price differentials in plastics along the Uganda-Kenya border. There are also new more formalized opportunities for waste work taken up in plastic recycling factories and with licensed waste collection companies, often supported by NGOs and government initiatives. Knowledge of these new and emerging forms of waste work is tentative and fragmentary, as are the possible relationships they have to each other, and to waste pickers who continue to collect, sort and process plastics in municipal dumpsites. PlastiCITIES is designed to provide new knowledge and analysis of these existing, new and emerging forms of waste work.

Primary data collection will be organised around three sites in urban Kenya that have been selected for different configurations of governance structures, CE interventions and waste worker population characteristics. These are: 1. Mombasa, 听which hosts a number of plastic waste initiatives due to the problem of ocean plastics, many of which aim to include informal workers in the emerging plastic waste economy; 2. Nairobi, where densely populated areas struggle with large volumes of plastic waste and an aggressive private sector seeks to profit from waste management; 听and 3. Busia,听 a border-town struggling with large amounts of plastic waste that enters Kenya as contraband from Uganda and where competing bodies of national and county legislation shape the economy in post-consumer plastics.

The advertised PhD project will focus on Mombasa, and will include long term qualitative fieldwork.

PlastiCITIES is an international collaboration between the University of Copenhagen (Hannah Elliott, Ben Jones), 吃瓜头条 (Akinyi Eurallyah, Eric Kioko), and Busara (Juhi Jain, Mario Schmidt).

The main supervisor will be Dr. Eric Kioko, the project lead at 吃瓜头条, with co-supervision by Prof. Ben Jones at University of Copenhagen.听 The PhD student will have the opportunity for a research stay at University of Copenhagen鈥檚 Centre of African Studies to gain insight into academic research and for networking opportunities. PhD students will also have the opportunity to use office space at Busara.

General conditions for the PhD positions

1. The positions are fully funded and include a competitive stipend and educational fees.
2. The successful PhD candidates will be enrolled at 吃瓜头条, in the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development.
3. The scholarships will run for three years, starting in September 2026, and include a research stay in Denmark.
4. The candidates are expected to carry out at least 6 months of fieldwork in the specified project focus area. They are also expected to participate fully in PlastiCITIES activities and meet the requirements of the KU PhD school.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants should:

1. Hold a bachelor鈥檚 degree (minimum, Second Class Honours) and a master鈥檚 degree (Excellent or Credit) in a relevant social sciences discipline (anthropology, African Studies, environmental studies, development studies or another relevant field).
2. Be highly motivated to pursue full time doctoral studies and develop an academic career.
3. Be willing to conduct fieldwork in the preselected study area, and preferably have previous fieldwork experience or at least experience with qualitative methods.
4. Have research experience in East Africa
5. Ideally have prior engagement with studying waste, circular economy, environmental governance, and related issues.
6. Be willing to travel and actively participate in the project activities.
7. Demonstrate strong writing and communication skills.
8. Be a constructive and engaged team member.
9. Be eligible for residency in Kenya, if not already granted.
10. Demonstrate skills in academic writing

Application process

Applicants are invited to submit a short PhD concept note of approximately four pages (maximum 1,600 words, excluding references) outlining the focus of their proposed research project. The concept note must include the following elements:

1. Statement of the research problem and specific research questions.
2. Theoretical framework.
3. Proposed study area.
4. Methodological approach, including fieldwork considerations.
5. Practical considerations, including field access and security.
6. Ethical considerations.
7. Time plan.

PLEASE NOTE: Concept notes generated through AI or featuring AI in their content will not be considered. The panel will use AI detection tools to identify generative AI.

The concept note must be accompanied by the following documents:

1. A detailed CV outlining the applicant鈥檚 educational and professional background (2 pages max).
2. Certified copies of academic certificates and transcripts.
3. An electronic copy of the applicant鈥檚 MA thesis
4. Relevant publications
5. Contact details for two academic referees.

All application documents must be organised into a single PDF file.

When and where?

The deadline for submitting applications is July 05th, 2026 at 12:00 PM (East African Time).

Applications should be sent by email with the subject title 鈥�PlastiCITIES PhD application – MOMBASA鈥� to Dr. Eric Kioko, kioko.eric@ku.ac.ke and Dr. Hannah Elliott (hel.msc@cbs.dk). For more information about the PhD call, please contact Dr. Eric Kioko and/or Dr. Hannah Elliott.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The assessment committee will consist of a panel of PlastiCITIES researchers. All applications will be considered by the end of July 2026 and ONLY successful candidates will be notified by 15.08.2026.听 If you do not hear from us, please consider your application as unsuccessful. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a two-stage interview process in August 2026. Stage 1 will be an online interview, while Stage 2 will be an in-person written interview.

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吃瓜头条

Deadline for applications: 05 July 2026, at noon (East African Time)

吃瓜头条 (KU) invites qualified and motivated candidates to apply for a fully funded PhD position under the PlastiCITIES research program. Applicants should hold a graduate degree in the social sciences, broadly defined to include disciplines such as anthropology, African Studies, development studies, environmental studies, urban studies, political science, sociology and law.听 Your project will focus on plastics and the circular economy in Nairobi.

The PlastiCITIES research programme

Plastic waste contributes to climate change through emission of greenhouse gases and ocean pollution. The circular economy (CE) has gained traction over the past decade to address this problem. By designing out waste and recycling products back into the economy, CE promises to transform linear 鈥榤ake-take-waste鈥� economies into sustainable closed loop systems. For post-consumer plastics, CE means the transformation of (recyclable) plastics from end of life 鈥榳aste鈥� to 鈥榬esource鈥�. The scholarly literature on CE has largely approached the CE for plastics from technical, engineering, and business perspectives. Research is needed that examines the social implications of the drive towards a CE for plastics from the perspectives and experiences of those who do the 鈥榙irty work鈥� of collecting, sorting and processing plastic waste. PlastiCITIES examines how differently situated waste workers are responding to the drive toward a CE for plastics in urban Kenya.

Plastic pollution is a major problem in Kenya, where an estimated 37 kilotons of plastic waste leaks into the environment and ocean each year. Waste management is viewed as an urgent issue, especially in cities where waste accumulates in open dumpsites and blocks waterways. In response, the Kenyan government is adopting CE policies targeting the waste sector, including recently gazetted Extended Producer Responsibility legislation under the Sustainable Waste Management Act, which promotes the formalisation of the waste sector in which low-income informal waste workers have long gleaned a living. At the same time, evolving recycling technologies and growing demand for recycled plastics are driving new markets for plastic waste-turned-resource. We hypothesise that these interventions and economies are creating new commodity frontiers, understood as the incorporation of resources formerly deemed as lacking in economic value into the capitalist economy.

Waste workers are a differentiated set of low-income actors, often women, young men and migrants. They work in different activities in the plastics economy 鈥� washing, sorting, collecting, brokering 鈥� often in dangerous conditions. While existing studies of waste work tend to focus exclusively on waste pickers on dumpsites, PlastiCITIES innovates by mapping out and documenting emerging forms of waste work as new markets are developing in post-consumer plastics. A growing body of evidence from grey literature and newspaper reports suggests that, in the case of Kenya, new forms of formal and informal waste work are emerging in and around CE initiatives. Included in this are young men collecting plastics in lower middle-class neighbourhoods; beachcombers picking plastic waste washing up along Kenya鈥檚 coasts; and young women and men trying to work the price differentials in plastics along the Uganda-Kenya border. There are also new more formalized opportunities for waste work taken up in plastic recycling factories and with licensed waste collection companies, often supported by NGOs and government initiatives. Knowledge of these new and emerging forms of waste work is tentative and fragmentary, as are the possible relationships they have to each other, and to waste pickers who continue to collect, sort and process plastics in municipal dumpsites. PlastiCITIES is designed to provide new knowledge and analysis of these existing, new and emerging forms of waste work.

Primary data collection will be organised around three sites in urban Kenya that have been selected for different configurations of governance structures, CE interventions and waste worker population characteristics. These are: 1. Mombasa, 听which hosts a number of plastic waste initiatives due to the problem of ocean plastics, many of which aim to include informal workers in the emerging plastic waste economy; 2. Nairobi, where densely populated areas struggle with large volumes of plastic waste and an aggressive private sector seeks to profit from waste management; 听and 3. Busia,听 a border-town struggling with large amounts of plastic waste that enters Kenya as contraband from Uganda and where competing bodies of national and county legislation shape the economy in post-consumer plastics.

The advertised PhD project will focus on Nairobi, and will include long term qualitative fieldwork.

PlastiCITIES is an international collaboration between the University of Copenhagen (Hannah Elliott, Ben Jones), 吃瓜头条 (Akinyi Eurallyah, Eric Kioko), and Busara (Juhi Jain, Mario Schmidt).

The main supervisor will be Dr. Eric Kioko, the project lead at 吃瓜头条, with co-supervision by Prof. Ben Jones at University of Copenhagen.听 The PhD student will have the opportunity for a research stay at University of Copenhagen鈥檚 Centre of African Studies to gain insight into academic research and for networking opportunities. PhD students will also have the opportunity to use office space at Busara.

General conditions for the PhD positions

1. The positions are fully funded and include a competitive stipend and educational fees.
2. The successful PhD candidates will be enrolled at 吃瓜头条, in the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development.
3. The scholarships will run for three years, starting in September 2026, and include a research stay in Denmark.
4. The candidates are expected to carry out at least 6 months of fieldwork in the specified project focus area. They are also expected to participate fully in PlastiCITIES activities and meet the requirements of the KU PhD school.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants should:

1. Hold a bachelor鈥檚 degree (minimum, Second Class Honours) and a master鈥檚 degree (Excellent or Credit) in a relevant social sciences discipline (anthropology, African Studies, environmental studies, development studies or another relevant field).
2. Be highly motivated to pursue full time doctoral studies and develop an academic career.
3. Be willing to conduct fieldwork in the preselected study area, and preferably have previous fieldwork experience or at least experience with qualitative methods.
4. Have research experience in East Africa
5. Ideally have prior engagement with studying waste, circular economy, environmental governance, and related issues.
6. Be willing to travel and actively participate in the project activities.
7. Demonstrate strong writing and communication skills.
8. Be a constructive and engaged team member.
9. Be eligible for residency in Kenya, if not already granted.
10. Demonstrate skills in academic writing

Application process

Applicants are invited to submit a short PhD concept note of approximately four pages (maximum 1,600 words, excluding references) outlining the focus of their proposed research project. The concept note must include the following elements:

1. Statement of the research problem and specific research questions.
2. Theoretical framework.
3. Proposed study area.
4. Methodological approach, including fieldwork considerations.
5. Practical considerations, including field access and security.
6. Ethical considerations.
7. Time plan.

PLEASE NOTE: Concept notes generated through AI or featuring AI in their content will not be considered. The panel will use AI detection tools to identify generative AI.

The concept note must be accompanied by the following documents:

1. A detailed CV outlining the applicant鈥檚 educational and professional background (2 pages max).
2. Certified copies of academic certificates and transcripts.
3. An electronic copy of the applicant鈥檚 MA thesis
4. Relevant publications
5. Contact details for two academic referees.

All application documents must be organised into a single PDF file.

When and where?

The deadline for submitting applications is July 05th, 2026 at 12:00 PM (East African Time).

Applications should be sent by email with the subject title 鈥�PlastiCITIES PhD application – NAIROBI鈥� to Dr. Eric Kioko, kioko.eric@ku.ac.ke and Dr. Mario Schmidt (mario.schmidt@busara.global). For more information about the PhD call, please contact Dr. Eric Kioko and/or Dr. Mario Schmidt.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The assessment committee will consist of a panel of PlastiCITIES researchers. All applications will be considered by the end of July 2026 and ONLY successful candidates will be notified by 15.08.2026.听 If you do not hear from us, please consider your application as unsuccessful. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a two-stage interview process in August 2026. Stage 1 will be an online interview, while Stage 2 will be an in-person written interview.

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吃瓜头条 wishes to inform all students in the Regular, Continuing Education and Digital School Programmes who completed their studies in the in the First Semester/Trimester of the 2025/2026 Academic Year that the application deadline for the 59th Graduation Ceremony scheduled for July, 2026 has been extended.
NOTE:

• The online application opened on Friday, 13 th March, 2026 and will now close on Friday, 12 th June, 2026. Please note that this deadline will NOT be extended any further.
• When applying, ensure you have verified, confirmed and clearly indicated the order and spelling of your names as guided on the application tool.
• Only students without any fees balances will be cleared for graduation.
• To apply, visit our website www.ku.ac.ke, click on E-Resources and select 鈥楽tudent Online Services.鈥� Please log in using your corporate email (xxx@students.ku.ac.ke) account.
• For assistance with corporate email services, click on https://support.ku.ac.ke/ and choose 鈥淐orporate Email Services鈥� under 鈥淚CT Services鈥�.
• By applying for the July 2026 graduation, you will also have automatically initiated your clearance process. You shall not need to separately apply for clearance if successful.
• To ensure that you are not locked out, please apply online within the stipulated dates.
• Please note that it is an offence to apply for graduation when you have not met all academic requirements to graduate as advised above.
• Students who had applied online for previous graduations but did not graduate are required to apply again.
• All postgraduate students are required to apply and ensure that Thesis/Project is registered and graded.

ENQUIRIES

For further information please contact:
The Registrar (Academic)
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P.O. Box 43844-00100
NAIROBI.

Telephone: 020-8710901/2/3 Extension: 4562/3094 or Cell Phone 0786 335 111
Email: head-graduation@ku.ac.ke or registrar-acad@ku.ac.ke

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Examination Period: 2nd June 2026-19th June 2026.

Staff and students are advised to regularly check the Online master Final examination Timetable shared by the University Timetabling section for any updates throughout the examination period.

We wish all students success in their end of semester examinations.

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TERMS OF SERVICE:

A competitive remuneration package which includes basic salary, house allowance, and medical

Cover as per the University Scheme will be provided.

Applicants should submit certificates and testimonials by writing directly to:
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration & Finance)

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P.O. BOX 43844 鈥� 00100
NAIROBI

To be received by 27 th May, 2026.

吃瓜头条 is an equal opportunity employer, and canvassing will lead to automatic

disqualification.
Only successful candidates will be contacted

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