British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
BASIS News
2011
March 2011: The grants to sponsored institutes and societies for 2011-15 were announced.
2010
February 2010: The grants to sponsored institutes and societies for 2010-11 were announced.
2009
May 2009: A website has been launched for the European Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF), an alliance of some forty European and Asian institutions concerned with Asian studies established in 2007, and for which the Academy is a founder member and the UK co-ordinator. ECAF offers field access and study facilities to Academy grant-holders and to scholars attached to other UK and European member organisations through the sharing of a network of more than twenty academic research centres across Asia, and encourages joint interdisciplinary research programmes in the humanities and social sciences. Visit the ECAF website for more information, an up-to-date list of research centres, and an application form: http://www.ecafconsortium.com
February 2009: The grants to sponsored institutes and societies for 2009-10 were announced.
2008
November 2008: Evolving Societies 2008 was held on 11 November at the British Academy.
September 2008: Collaborative research awards for 3 years from 2008-09 to 2011-12 were announced (see news release)
March 2008: The grants to sponsored institutes and societies for 2008-09 were announced.
February 2008: An international conference was held on 28 and 29 February 2008 at the British Academy entitled: ‘Dispossession and displacement - Forced migration in the Middle East and Africa’. The event was organised by the Council for British Research in the Levant with the Refugees Studies Centre, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the British Institute in East Africa, the British Institute at Ankara, the British Institute of Persian Studies and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. The conference was funded by a collaborative award from the British Academy’s Board for Sponsored Institutes and Societies (BASIS).
2007
December 2007: Members of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq voted at their AGM on 12 December to change the name of the organisation to the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial)
November 2007: On 15 November, the British Academy hosted a one-day conference entitled 'Evolving Societies' to showcase the work of the sponsored organisations to an invited audience of policy-makers, funders and research leaders. The day featured presentations, exhibitions and discussions of the organisations' work in four broad themes:
- environmental change
- human migrations
- nations, states and identities
- art and heritage.
May 2007: BASIS has made four awards under its Collaborative Research Projects scheme
2006
November 2006: The results of the 2006 Learned Societies Programme were announced