Affiliation

Head, Department of Research, Council for the Development of Social Science research in Africa (CODESRIA)

 

Address

CODESRIA
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop X
Canal IV,
BP 3304, Dakar 18524,
Senegal

 

Contact

ebrima.sall@codesria.sn

 

Biosketch

Dr. Sall is co co-ordinator of AFRAN, and currently heads the Department of Research at the Dakar based Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Prior to his return to CODESRIA, where he had worked earlier on as a Programme Officer, he was, until January 2004, a Senior Fellow of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, where he was the coordinator of a research programme on Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa. Dr. Sall holds a PhD in sociology, obtained at the University of Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne, and conducted his post-doctoral training at Yale University. His most recent publications are on childhood paradigms, youth movements, post-conflict transition, higher education and the social sciences in Africa'.

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• Citizenship
• Social movements
• Youth and intergenerational relationships
• Conflict and post-conflict transition,
• Higher education
• Interest especially in West Africa, Gambia.

Capacity Building Interests

• Research capacity building; enhancing institutional capacity in Africa

Key methodological skills

Qualitative and quantitative methods

 

Current/planned research

• Multipolar-pressures on Universities
• Improving Institutions for pro-Poor Growth

Current engagement in capacity building

Co-leading a team of young researchers working on decentralization and forest resource management in Senegal