Projects
Current Projects
Former projects
The Colour of Diversity (2021-24, funded by the AHRC)
ÌýA Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry. Led by Dr Clive Nwonka.
Humanities-STEM collaborative projects (UCL GEO and PSL | 2021-2024)
The IAS, UCL’sÌýCities partnerships ProgrammeÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýÌýfunded four collaborative research projects withÌýa focus on theÌýarts, humanities and social sciences and theÌýnatural sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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(British Academy | 2019-2023)
This project entails a longitudinal social psychological study on chronic illness experiences and systems of care among London’s West African communities, and the development of a public engagement model for NCDs in continental and diaspora African contexts. Led by ProfÌýAma de-Graft Aikins.
(2020-22 | British Museum)
Material Culture of Batek Hunter-Gatherers in Pahang State, MalaysiaÌýis funded by the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum. Led by Dr Alice Rudge.
Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History (Getty Foundation | 2018-2022)
This project, funded by the Getty's Connecting Art Histories initiative andÌýrun by the Post-socialist Art Centre,Ìýseeks to illuminate the entangled histories of East European art through a series of itinerant symposia held at universities and museums across Europe.
Creative Fellowship Programme 2020/21
Sustainability as Cultural Practice: Verbal and Visual Art,
History and the Environmental HumanitiesÌý(BSR | 2021)Ìý
A series of four roundtable events in July 2021, organised in collaboration with theÌýÌýand theÌý. The series will be co-hosted by the newly establishedÌýItalian Ministry for the Ecological Transition, and will be included in the "All4Climate – Italy 2021" PreCOP26 Programme, promoting 2021 as the Year of Climate Ambition.
Compromised Identities? Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism (AHRC | 2018-2021)
This three-year project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, was run by the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust & Genocide Studies.ÌýThe projects aim was to transform our understanding of the character and personal legacies of perpetration and complicity in systems of collective violence over time. It analysedÌýentanglement in collective violence under Nazism, and later reflections on such experiences, developing the concept of 'compromised identities' to explore historical subjectivities under changing circumstances
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(Wellcome Trust | 2015-2021)
This five-year project, funded by the Wellcome Trust,Ìýseeks to critically evaluate the history of what is viewed as an ‘epidemic’ of chronic and non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and provide an historical account of the evolution of chronic and non-communicable diseases in Africa, going beyond a simple account of ‘transition’, and to contribute to wider debates on the nature of epidemiological change.Ìý It is led by IAS Deputy Director, Professor Megan Vaughan.
Highlighting Exclusionary Practices within Established and Emerging Digital and Biometric National ID Systems in the Global South (Alan Turing Institute | 2020-21)
This project consideredÌýthe interface between design and socio-political/economic inequalities. It examinedÌýthe extent to which existing digital and biometric identity systems mitigate barriers to access stemming from class and occupational divides, ethnic and religious marginalisation, gender disparities, generational differences, and citizenship status. Emphasis was placed on the design of digital identity programs and their impact on equity and inclusion.
The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies
(UCL Grand Challenges, Nov 22-23)
An international series of fourteen seminars.
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