British Institute in Eastern Africa

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

Funding & Opportunities
August 29, 2024 in BIEA, Opportunities

Call for Participants: Researchers conducting grounded Empirical Research on AI in Eastern Africa

Sharing New Research on the Impacts of AI in Eastern Africa
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August 2, 2024 in Opportunities

Climate Change and Heritage Adaptation Conference

This two-day online conference invites projects working with or impacted by climate change in the broader North and East Africa region to share their experiences.
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July 15, 2024 in Opportunities

Call for Applications: 2025 Mohamed Ali Foundation fellowship programme

This call is now open, and applications should be submitted by Tuesday 1 October 2024.
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July 2, 2024 in Opportunities

BIEA Student Attaché Blogs

‘It seems to me that anthropology, being a study of human cultures and society, is a study that thrives on ‘otherness’ and ‘difference’. We, as aspiring or current African anthropologists,…
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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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