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Conducting and supporting innovative research in the Humanities and Social Sciences across Africa since 1960

Funding & Opportunities
June 13, 2025 in Opportunities

Call for Applications: BIRI Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The British International Research Institutes (BIRI) - BIAA, BSA, BILNAS, BIEA, BSR, BISI, BIPS, CBRL and EES - invite applications for postdoctoral research fellowships on "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions".
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June 6, 2025 in BIEA, Opportunities

Call for Applications: BIEA Regional Research Associates

This award supports junior post-doctoral scholars (within five years of their PhD) to join the BIEA for one year as a Research Associate (30 July 2025- 30 July 2026).
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Dec 23

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Volume 57, Issue 3 (2022)
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Dec 23

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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JEAS Volume 16, Issue 2 (2022)
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Research & Partners
August 2, 2024 in research

Refugee Study Centre (RSC), University of Oxford

The RSC aims to build knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of forced migration.
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August 2, 2024 in research

MAEASaM – Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments

A combination of remote sensing, records-based research and selective archaeological surveys, to build comprehensive and up-to-date records of site types and distributions.
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August 2, 2024 in research

GlobalCORRIDOR – Urbanisation, everyday life and techno-social differentiation

GlobalCORRIDOR proposal for partnership arrangement with the British Institute in East Africa
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August 2, 2024 in research

Western Sudan Community Museums (WSCM) Phase II

Project Partners: The National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan; Mallinson Architects; University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology
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April 18, 2023 in OurResearch, research

Regional Futures

In the last two decades, an information revolution in the global south has profoundly shaped the urbanisation of metropolitan regions.
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January 17, 2022 in research

Remote Sensing for Biocultural Heritage Preservation in an African Semi-Arid Region

A Case Study of Indigenous Wells in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
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