Building a vibrant multidisciplinary African Academy that leads world-class research
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) was formed in 2008 to support the development of a vibrant African academy that lead world-class multidisciplinary research with positive impact on public and population health. CARTA offers a well thought out approach to rebuild and strengthen the capacity of African researchers and universities to produce world-class researchers, research leaders, and scholars. The collaborative initiative enhances the capacity of African universities to create conducive research environments by supporting junior faculty members to undertake their doctoral training locally and to become internationally recognized research leaders. CARTA is a consortium of eight African partner universities, four research institutions, and eight non-African partner institutions, jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa.
CARTA will maintain a pipeline of ECRs by offering: doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships; Joint Advanced Seminars (JASes) to equip doctoral fellows with transferable research skills; and training to nudge ECRs into research leadership.
CARTA will create multidisciplinary, cross-institutional research hubs in partner universities. We will ensure research teams incorporate early career researchers; promote co-design of the research agenda so that researchers engage with end-users of the research; and support research hubs to develop large-scale competitive grant proposals, embedding PhD and postdoctoral training.
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CARTA will support the creation of research-supportive environments in African partner institutions. We enhance supervisors’ understanding of and commitment to the goals of doctoral supervision, exposing them to best practices in doctoral supervision and mentorship.
CARTA will enhance the engagement of the CARTA community with society. We will facilitate partnerships between research hubs and policy actors through co-design of research, strengthen CARTA early career researchers’ competencies in science communication, policy engagement and knowledge translation and support knowledge of research products from early career researchers through publications, conferences, and different forms of media.
“CARTA has transformed me into a Citizen Scholar, not just conducting research for the sake of it but to solve specific problems in the society.”
“CARTA opened my eyes to critical scientific writing and encouraged me to publish in high ranking open access journals. That has been a major boost for me. I have also learnt the skills needed to navigate my career as a researcher and academic.”
“CARTA has transformed my research career trajectory and equipped me with high-caliber academic skills that will go a long way in mentoring others and achieving research goals.”
“I have been allowed to attend an internship at Duke University, which allowed me to design an intervention model from April to May 2023. I have been involved in the curriculum review of PhD students in our school which is interested in accommodating the CARTA model.”
“Overall, I have become a better version of myself as a researcher, educator, policy influencer“
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