Area Panel for Africa

The Nairobi Process

The Nairobi Report was launched in Africa at the British Institute in Eastern Africa on 18 March 2010.

The report aims to address the challenges facing Africa-UK research collaborations in the humanities and the social sciences.

For further details about the report please visit the Nairobi Report webpage

The Africa Desk

The Africa Desk is a new portal designed to support collaboration between UK and African researchers by enabling them to locate and make contact with colleagues sharing similar research interests and to identify potential future collaborators. The Africa Desk also aims to provide a central source of advice and information for African scholars interested in the activities of the UK Africanist research community, or who wish to apply for research funding or fellowships, establish collaborative projects with UK academics, or get their work published in UK Africanist journals.

To start making the most of the opportunities offered by the Africa Desk, please visit www.africadesk.ac.uk

The Academy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, to promote research collaboration between the UK and Ghana.

The Area Panel for Africa established the UK-Africa Academic Partnership scheme in 2006, which later became part of the International Partnerships scheme, to support the development of ongoing links between UK and African research centres or institutions, within the humanities and social sciences.  Though these schemes are no longer running, similar provision is provided through the British Academy's International Partnerships and Mobility scheme.  

Membership

Professor Karin Barber FBA, University of Birmingham
Professor William Beinart FBA, University of Oxford
Professor Graham Furniss FBA, School of Oriental and African Studies (Chair)
Dr John Law, The British Council
Professor Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham
Professor Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford, British Institute in Eastern Africa
Dr Mpalive Msiska, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex/ ASAUK
Professor James Smith, University of Edinburgh
Professor Megan Vaughan FBA, University of Cambridge 
Professor Alfred Babatunde Zack-Williams, University of Central Lancashire

Secretary: Miss R Paniagua

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