Overview:
The University of Ghana has, through a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding, received a grant from Société des Produits Nestlé SA to support Ph.D. students in conducting interdisciplinary research in the broad areas of Food and Nutrition Security, and Climate Change. The specific research themes, with some related topics, are as
follows:
1. 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
2. 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
Scholarship Funding:
The grant is mainly directed to the funding of Ph.D. students and will provide support for tuition, research costs and stipend starting from the 2020/2021 academic year.
Funding for the program is for a maximum of four (4) years (First-year applicants) and three (3) years (Second-year applicants).
Eligibility Criteria:
- 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.
- Applicant must be a national or permanent resident of Ghana
Application Process:
Interested applicants should download and complete the application form (Click Here), and include the supporting documents indicated below, into a single PDF file. Applications should be emailed to:
The Director
Institute of Applied Science & Technology
College of Basic & Applied Sciences
University of Ghana
P.O Box LG 25, Legon
Email: iast-nestle@ug.edu.gh
OR
submitted to:
The Assistant Registrar
Institute of Applied Science and Technology
DI Old Chemistry Building
Cruise O’Brien Road (Opposite the Recreational Quadrangle)
University of Ghana
Tel: 0244793703 / 0208540099
Supporting Documents:
- One-page motivation statement
- Ph.D. research proposal of not more than 3 pages (1.5-line spacing) clearly outlining the background, objectives, scope, and methodology for applicant’s research (include a budget and work-plan on separate pages). The proposal MUST be related to one of the themes or topics listed above.
- Applicant’s curriculum vitae
- Graduate and Undergraduate Certificates
- Graduate and Undergraduate Transcripts
- Copy of applicant’s national ID card
