South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, Mona has organized Graduate Research Training Workshops for students in the Humanities from August 23 – 25, 2010 at UWI, Mona. The workshops are designed to provide guidance and to train graduate students and junior academics in Planning Your Research, Proposal Writing, Grant Application Writing and Writing for Publication. Forty participants from seven countries namely: Nigeria, Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil, Trinidad, St. Lucia and Barbados will benefit from these workshops which will equip them with the necessary transferable skills required to carry out their research at the graduate level and to increase their ability to access funding for research which is critical to development. The workshop is an effort to strengthen research proposals submitted by potential graduate students and to equip junior academics with the tools to attract research funding.

The workshops will be delivered by a team of experts from both SEPHIS and the UWI, employing practical and interactive teaching methodology. Participants will have access to on one-on-one coaching, specific to their particular study, during the hands on sessions of the workshops. 

The SEPHIS programme is designed to encourage networking among researchers in the South and to strengthen comparative research and Southern-based research capacity. SEPHIS is primarily engaged in the dissemination of academic knowledge through publications and policy dialogues and training. In addition South-South Exchange programmes are offered through SEPHIS for PhD candidates and academics to facilitate networking.