British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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 futher 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 has established a UK-Africa Academic Partnership scheme, 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.
The link shall be built around a specific research theme of mutual interest. This could be carried forward through
- visits in both directions;
- workshops;
- seminars and lecture programmes;
- collaborative research; and
- joint publications.
The programme might form part of either institution's training programme and will ideally involve participation from more than one African institution, and might also involve more than one department, university, group or research center in the UK.
Membership
Professor William Beinart FBA, University of Oxford
Professor Graham Furniss FBA, School of Oriental and African Studies (Chair)
Professor Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh; Royal African Society
Dr John Law, The British Council
Professor Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford, British Institute in Eastern Africa
Professor Henrietta Moore FBA, University of Cambridge
Dr Mpalive Msiska, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Nici Nelson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor JDY Peel FBA, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Dr Richard Thomas, DFID
Professor Megan Vaughan FBA, University of Cambridge
Professor Alfred Babatunde Zack-Williams, University of Central Lancashire
Secretary: Miss R Paniagua