ASAUK newsletter, January 2011 (original) (raw)
2011, ASAUK newsletter, 16 (62)
Accounts were approved as tabled. Subscriptions: the AGM noted that the RAS was keen to increase subscriptions in the coming year. There has been a significant increase in membership since 2005, though also a high turnover. The new executive is to consider ways in which to increase and stabilise growing membership numbers.
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Since becoming ASAUK President, I have become more aware of the extraordinary range of institutions, Centres, Journals, research groups and NGOs connected with Africa Studies in the UK. A growing number of universities have centres, degrees or networks linked to many different disciplines. The scale of seminars and conferences, and the number of submissions to journals, seems to be increasing. In addition to the RAS, Chatham House runs a regular programme of speakers in London. The British Academy Africa Panel, International Africa Institute, the ACU, the Africa Unit, British Council, INASP, DFID and others all have ideas and aims which in some part run in parallel to ours: to promote African Studies in the UK; to expand scholarships, research and training possibilities; to develop partnerships with African institutions and academics. ASAUK office-holders are trying to meet these key organisations, and we are incorporating representatives from some of them onto the ASAUK Council. Coordinating all of this exciting, decentralised activity is impossible, and many others have far larger resources. But we can, as a national organisation, play some role in facilitating connections and working around a few concrete aims. The Newsletter provides some nationwide information and Website, when fully operational, will expand our capacity on this front. My energies are going into partnership research schemes (pioneered and funded by the British Academy Africa Panel), Teaching Fellowships, and the Journal Writing Workshops.
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