Frameworks for Africa-UK Research Collaboration in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Nairobi Report

9.15am, 18 March 2010
British institute in Eastern Africa, Lakipia Road, Nairobi 

The Nairobi Report is the culmination of a two-year process of reflection and discussion amongst UK and African scholars across the humanities and social sciences.  It presents a series of frameworks derived from the collective ideas of some 60 scholars and research leaders, who met in Nairobi in September 2008, which aim to address the challenges facing Africa-UK research collaborations in the humanities and the social sciences, and to formulate practical solutions to these. 

The challenges are substantial and the investments which will be needed to overcome these considerable, and much will need to be tackled at higher levels.  However,  much can also be done through a renewed, frank and open partnership between African and UK researchers and institutions, and it is hoped that the Nairobi Report might help to inform this dialogue.  

PDF and HTML copies of the Report can be accessed here.  To receive the Report in hard copy please contact the British Academy

The African launch of the report will take place at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi on Thursday, 18 March. 

Programme:

8.45 - 9.15   Registration
9.15 - 9.30   'Welcome and Opening Remarks': Professor JDY Peel, FBA (Representing the British  
                      Academy)
9.30 - 11.00 Panel: Partnership in Practice 1 Chair: Professor John Mack (President, BIEA)
                       'The UK-Africa Academic Partnership on Chronic Disease: Achievements, Challenges and Future Directions': Dr Daniel Arhinful (University of Ghana) & Dr Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Cambridge)
'Non-formal education and poverty reduction': Professor Julia Preece (University of Glasgow) & dr Wapula Raditloaneng (University Botswana)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee/ tea
11.30 - 1.00 Panel: Partnership in Practice 2 Chair: Professor Justin Willis (Durham University)
'Facilitating inter-ethnic dialogue on heritage and peace in Kenya: One element of a UK-Africa Partnership Project': Dr Munene-Karege (USIU, Nairobi) & Dr Lotte Hughes (Open University)
'Partnerships in Academic Research: Tackling Ignorance through Fine Art- The Role of Sculpture in Relation to Gender and HIV/AIDS in Uganda': Dr Lillian Nabulime (Makerere University)
'The ASAUK's Writer's workshops': Professor William Beinart (University of Oxford)


If you are interested in attending, please contact the conference organiser