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ANU Africa Network
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This website was established in 2013 by David Lucas, and renovated and relaunched in 2020 as part of a project to increase awareness of Africa and African studies in the ANU and the ACT, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Another outcome of that project was a major research report, published in August 2021, African Studies at the Australian National University and in the Australian Capital Territory, analyzing the past, present and future of the study of Africa at the Australian National University and the wider Australian University sector.
The major innovation on this updated website is the creation of the ACT Africa Expert Directory which lists experts on Africa from institutions around the ACT, primarily the ANU. We will continue to curate this list, offering a key resource for media, government and non-government organizations seeking expert facts and opinions on Africa. Individuals can request to be added to the list by contacting the website managers.
Another notable addition is the expanded directory of PhD theses on Africa produced in the territory’s universities, a solid measure of the vitality of the study of Africa in the city of Canberra.
Reviewing these directories, it is revealing to note that the vast majority of research on Africa is produced by disciplinary experts (environmental scientists, economists, demographers, etc.) rather than area studies experts. This means that the study of Africa is woven into the fabric of the research culture of the ANU and the ACT’s other universities in ways that are not necessarily apparent.
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ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN AID CONFERENCE AT THE ANU
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Devpolicy News reports that
‘Registrations for the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference (10-11 Feb) have already broken the records set in the last two years. Make sure you register as soon as you can to avoid disappointment. Less than two weeks to go!
If you are wondering what all the fuss is about, check out this recent blog from the conference convenors’The conference program can be accessed by the link at
https://devpolicy.crawford.anu.edu.au/annual-australasian-aid-conference/2016/program-and-speakers.There are at least three program items covering Africa:
- The Overseas Development Institute on Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo
- The Fred Hollows Foundation on Cameroon
- Murdoch and Lilongwe Universities on Zambia and Malawi
Also of interest to Africanists is then launch of the findings of the 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Survey at the Crawford School, ANU, at 9.40am on Feburary 11th. To register for this event see:
https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/6890/launch-2015-australian-aid-stakeholder-survey
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Science Circus
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Dr Graham Walker (ANU National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science) has taken his science shows to 41,000 children in Africa as part of an 11-week tour through five countries. Dr Walker and teammate Joe Duggan lugged magnets and other everyday items to be transformed into science experiments on their Science Circus tour of Mauritius, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Malawi. The project, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Questacon and ANU, has left a legacy by training local teachers and staff from local science centres. See
https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/science-circus-helps-inspire-and-enable-africaGraham Walker conceived, sourced funding for and implemented the project and his efforts were recognised with a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach at the 2015 ANU Staff Excellence Awards. see
https://cpas.anu.edu.au/news-events/six-cpas-staff-members-recognised-vice-chancellors-award-public-policy-and-outreachCongratulations to Professor Sue Stocklmayer , Foundation Director of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, who was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours in 2016. Sue was brought up in Zambia and did her early work in science education in Zimbabwe. See
https://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/sue-stocklmayer
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Dr Linda Devereux
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Congratulations to Linda Devereux who completed her thesis in 2015, entitled, “Narrating a congo missionary childhood (1958 – 1964) : memory and meaning examined through a creative non-fiction text and exegesis.”
The study analyses the transnational childhood experience of the daughter of medical missionaries who worked for the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1958 and 1964.