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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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Congratulations to Aimee Komugabe
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ANUASA congratulates Aimee (ANUASA President, 2010) on submitting her thesis entitled “Mid- to Late-Holocene Environmental Changes in the Southwest Pacific: Records from Deep-sea Black Corals” at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.
Aimee got engaged and is returning to Wellington, New Zealand, so we wish her safari njema.
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Africa-Australia Dialogue 1st Symposium – June 28th La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
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AFSAAP is a co-sponsor of the forthcoming 1st Africa Australia Dialogue Symposium to be held at La Trobe University on June 28th 2014. The Key Note Speaker, Former Zimbabwean Ambassador Jaqueline Zwambila, will join a host of other speakers to discuss the key issues. This will be a great event, and AFSAAP hopes that many of you will be able to attend.
Event details:
The Centre for Dialogue’s first Africa-Australia Symposium, following on from last year’s Australia-Africa Dialogue inaugural address by Australia’s the Hon Kevin Rudd, is a forum where experts, academics, settlement and service providers, community leaders and activists can focus on the pressing issues confronting African-Australians as well as explore Australia’s links to African countries. This inaugural Symposium seeks to raise awareness about trends, challenges and opportunities that face the African-Australia diaspora as well as advance Australian-African relations. Using data, census projections and commentary from experts in the field, the Symposium will focus on the roles individuals, governments and industry can play in addressing the future needs of a rapidly growing community as well as ascertain how to advance Australian-African relations.More information can be found on this Symposium Flyer.
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Visiting Fellowship for African Researchers
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Offered by the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), this is an exciting opportunity to enhance population and health research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa by building closer ties with research centres at The Australian National University (ANU).
In 2014-5 this program will support one African researcher (at any career stage) for up to three months at the ANU. The fellowship will fund travel, accommodation and living allowance. The researcher must be affiliated with an African research institute or university.
A primary goal of this program to establish on-going collaboration following the visit.
Applications for this Fellowship close on 31 July 2014 To learn more about the application process go here