Cohort 1
Our Students
Cohort 1 was admitted for the 2026 session: 49 postgraduate students, 26 at doctoral and 23 at master's level, across the Centre's MSc and PhD programmes.
In their own words
A cohort of working professionals
Here are some of them — from the profiles they presented at the Centre’s familiarization session in April 2026.
More than half hold a substantive post in a federal ministry, agency, regulator, university or college, and several arrived with a research question already attached to their day job.
The cohort directory is being finalised
30 student profiles are drafted and awaiting sign-off. Each student is sent their own card for a factual check before it is published, and a card is held back until the student has supplied a photograph — several of them work for regulators and ministries, where a wrong job title on a public page causes real trouble.
Profiles will appear here as they are approved.
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Candidates on the waiting list are admitted in the second semester. If you have arrived between intakes, join the expression-of-interest list.