NORHED Rising Scholars learning opportunities

Through our partnership with Norad, researchers at African NORHED institutions can access a growing selection of free, high-quality online learning opportunities. These include both facilitated and self-paced courses, as well as flexible, on-demand resources to support your professional development and research practice. Click here to see the full list of African NORHED partner institutions.

Upcoming courses

Working with Communities: Participatory Research for Policy Change - starts 14th July 2026

This is a highly practical course - you will be required to identify and engage with a relevant community through several activities, to try out the methods and tools that you learn on this course.

Course duration: 9 weeks

Course objectives:

• Explain the principles and importance of participatory research.  
• Analyse how communities, stakeholders, and collaborators can engage with research addressing complex challenges.  
• Apply participatory approaches and methods appropriate to different research contexts. 
• Develop effective strategies to support the funding, communication, and long-term use of participatory research. 

Who will find the course useful

• Researchers who are interested in designing and carrying out research that makes an impact and policy change.
• Researchers who are interested in designing and carrying out research using community based or participatory research approaches.

Sign up

• Log in or create a learn@inasp account if you don’t already have one.
• Open the course enrolment page.
• Email risingscholars@inasp.info for the enrolment code if you don't yet have it.

If you have not already done so, register here to receive regular information about the online learning opportunities available to researchers at NORHED universities in Africa through INASP's partnership with Norad.

Other learning opportunities available

Below you will find other ways to learn with Rising Scholars. Please also browse this website to get an idea of all the different ways Rising Scholars can support you!