The University of Ghana calls application for Nestlé Ph.D. Scholarships for Research Excellence. This scheme is for candidates who will conduct interdisciplinary research in the broad areas of Food and Nutrition Security, and Climate Change.

Themes

Affordable nutrition: addressing the nutritional needs of low-income settings by developing innovative affordable food matrices from locally sourced crops and ingredients, potentially pulses and legumes.

• Healthy Diets from a Sustainable Food System for Low-Income Consumers
• Identify solutions for affordable nutrition via Virtual & Rapid Prototyping
• Drying – Binding – Shaping as Enabler of Affordable Nutrition Solutions
• High-shear Granulation as Enabler of Affordable Nutrition Solutions

Implications of climate change on food security and nutritional quality of food for low-income settings.

• Cocoa shell, a by-product with high food potential to be valorized
• Valorize Moringa for climate-friendly nutritious products

Scientific substantiation of the public health impact of the Nestle Iron Awareness Campaign.

Grants 

The grants will cover the funding of Ph.D. students and will provide support for tuition, research costs, and stipend starting from the 2020/2021 academic year.

Requirements 

Candidates must have the following qualifications in order to be eligible for this Ph.D. Scholarships at the University of Ghana

• First or Second year Ph.D. students in a discipline closely related to the research themes above (e.g. Food Science, Nutrition, Food Process Engineering, and others).
• Applicants must have no competing scholarships and commit to fulltime Ph.D. student status.
• First-year applicants must meet the University of Ghana requirements and gain admission into an applicable Ph.D. program.
• Second-year applicants should have met UG academic requirements including having passed their written and comprehensive examinations.
• Applicants must possess excellent academic credentials, and demonstrate motivation and capacity to carry out original, innovative, and independent research.
• The applicant must be a national or permanent resident of Ghana.

The University of Ghana

The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The original emphasis was on the liberal arts, social sciences, law, basic science, agriculture, and medicine. However, as part of a national educational reform program, the university’s curriculum was expanded to provide more technology-based and vocational courses as well as postgraduate training.