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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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ANU’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) and Africa
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Professor Banks Emily has been made a member of the Order of Australia, largely for her work on cardiovascular disease and on cancer. In addition, according to The Canberra Times “Her research which showed female genital mutilation was associated with increasing risks for mothers and babies was used as evidence for a United Nations resolution on the subject”. Professor Banks was the lead author in this study: Banks, E, Meirik, O, Farley, T et al 2006, ‘Female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective study in six African countries’, Lancet, The (UK edition), vol. 367, pp. 1835-1841.
And also she was a co-author in Shah, T, Grieg, J, van der Plas, L et al 2016, ‘Inpatient signs and symptoms and factors associated with death in children aged 5 years and younger admitted to two Ebola management centres in Sierra Leone, 2014: A retrospective cohort study’, The Lancet Global Health, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. E495-E501.
Associate Professor Kamalini Lokuge’s projects include
- Principal investigator, 2014 Ebola Epidemic outbreak control (West Africa)
- Principal investigator, Empowering reproductive decisions and services through community engagement (Sierra Leone)
- Principal investigator, Informing humanitarian guidance to reduce risk of violence against young people (Multinational)
- Principal investigator, Safe Delivery program (Sierra Leone)
See: https://rsph.anu.edu.au/people/academics/associate-professor-kamalini-lokuge
Dr Chaturangi Yapa
Dr Chaturangi’s research in Northern Nigeria is available at: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/202969
One or Dr Yapa’s research questions was how the key concepts of Primary Health Care (PHC) applied in a Humanitarian Emergency? She used field visits to Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) projects in northern Nigeria and Lebanon as case studies to answer this research question. “In northern Nigeria, a visit and realist analysis of a (MSF)maternal health care project highlighted the importance of understanding the ‘context’ of an intervention, particularly the role of PHC in comprehensively addressing maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.”
Dr Dorothy Ononokpono
Dr Ononokpono was a Caldwell Fellow (see https://rsss.cass.anu.edu.au/news/caldwell-visiting-fellowship-2020-call-applications) Working with Dr Baffour of the School of Demography, ANU, and Dr Alice Richardson of NCEPH, she published ‘Mapping maternal healthcare access in selected West African Countries’ in African Population Studies, 34(1), 2020.
She is also the lead author of ‘Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A
Systematic Review of Measurement, Levels and Determinants’, by Dorothy N. Ononokpono, Bernard Baffour, Nsidibe Usoro and Olukemi Adebola’, in The Routledge Handbook of African Demography, edited By Clifford O. Odimegwu, Yemi Adewoyin, forthcoming in 2022.
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Shirley Randell on Women’s Leadership in Rwanda
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Professor Shirley Randell has issued a late invitation to a Zoom meeting of her talk in the University of Canberra Research Seminar series today, Monday 16 August at 2.30pm
She will be speaking on Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education: Metaphors and Images in Stories of Rwandan and Bangladeshi Women Leaders
Here is the guest link to the UC virtual room https://au.bbcollab.com/guest/360f198cfebe4e58a74fb69595db0336
If you are having any difficulties feel free to ring Deborah Pino-Pasternak on 0405 253 240.
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African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Meeting
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African Studies Drop-in Meeting
14th August 2021, 2-4pm
The last few years have proved quite isolating for everyone and particularly difficult if you are working on a continent that you can no longer travel to. In a bid to keep the conversation going (and enthusiasm up!), we will be holding a meeting on August 14th from 2-4pm.
In this meeting we can check-in, welcome new members and discuss what we’d like this space to be, going forward.
For example, would we like a monthly slot for a seminar series, where members can present work and get feedback? Alternatively, we could use the slot to provide methodology/wrting advice for students and early career researchers. Another option would be for members just to get together.
The link for the first drop-in is here:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85642343619?pwd=WlVXeGtqYmdtc2NRbXpwbmgxQkt1UT09
Passcode: 314084