Deadline: 28-Feb-22
The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) is inviting applications for funding for original research projects in any discipline in the humanities and social sciences in eastern Africa and beyond.
Projects that fall outside of these disciplinary areas are not considered (for example, they do not fund projects in STEM subjects). They particularly welcome applications from researchers or research teams who have limited access to other sources of funds.
Themes
Projects which engage with one or more of the following BIEA research themes:
- Retelling the Past: There is a growing tendency to discount knowledge about the past, with archeology and historicized ways of thinking seen as an unaffordable luxury irrelevant to an African future.
- Changing Environments: Climate change, bio-diversity loss, urbanisation, large infrastructure projects and technological innovations all impact the environments in which people live in ways that are having, and have long had, profound demographic, socioeconomic, cultural and political effects.
- Urban Lives: Often seen simply as problematic, urbanization is also a driver of creativity and innovation – from music-making and art to political mobilization and mobile banking. This theme encourages research that explores and questions people’s imaginations, negotiations and everyday realities of urban life today and/or in the past.
- Technologies of Politics: The BIEA brings its commitment to empirically grounded and multi-disciplinary local scholarship to promote research that builds worldclass knowledge on the digital age in and from the region.
- Next Generations: This theme looks at the lived experiences, concerns, identities and strategies of the current youth, as well as at the changing and possible educational, socio-economic, employment, cultural, political, and environmental contexts which will help to shape the lives of future generations.
- Epidemics, pandemic s and epizootics: This theme encourages research that looks at both of these aspects – namely, on the impacts of, and insights provided by, disease – in the context of COVID-19 or earlier epidemics, pandemics and epizootics in the region .
Funding Information
Grants are normally between £500 and £1,000, but up to £1,500 may be awarded. The grant should contribute towards actual research costs and not include institutional overheads, equipment, and applicant’s stipend or publication costs.
Eligibility Criteria
Priority is given to researchers based in the UK or Eastern Africa.
criteria
- The BIEA is k een to fund small projects that lay the ground for larger projects.
- Researchers may include postgraduate students; people who have not followed conventional research careers but whose local knowledge or contacts make them well-fitted to conduct high quality research; and/or collaborative projects which might involve more established scholars but where the resources are ring-fenced for early career or Africa-based project partners.
For more information, visit https://biea.ac.uk/call-for-applications-biea-annual-thematic-research-grants/