Members of the Ferguson Centre are committed to two-way knowledge transfer between scholars and non-scholars.
The exhibition ‘South Asians Making Britain, 1858-1950’ is currently touring public libraries in Britain. A collaborative venture between the ‘Making Britain’ project team and the British Library, the display showcases the South Asian contributions to sport, the arts, domestic, cultural and intellectual life, resistance and activism, as well as national and global politics.
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This booklet, to be launched at the British Academy, London, on 3 March 2011, features research carried out in Kenya with funding from a UK-Africa Partnership Scheme Award granted to Dr Lotte Hughes of the OU and Professor Karega-Munene, of United States International University, Nairobi. It describes the collaboration as ‘one of the British Academy's most successful UK-Africa Partnerships'. In particular, it focuses on the researchers’ contribution to grassroots peace-building in Kenya and three very successful inter-ethnic exchange visits for civil society stakeholders that Karega-Munene and Lotte Hughes organised in 2009-10.
It also mentions the larger AHRC-funded project (‘Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, memorialisation and the uses of memory in Kenya’) which this study helped Lotte Hughes to secure, and which continues until September 2011.
On page 10 it describes the 'Nairobi Process', which Karega-Munene and Lotte Hughes were invited to contribute to, that led to the prestigious Nairobi Report (published 2009, to which they both input). This initiative was about 'finding ways to support African academics and strengthen the humanities and social science research community across the continent' - an ongoing process.
Booklet pdf (1,571 kb)
Karl Hack interviewed by Octavian Manea, 'Setting the Record Straight on the Malayan Emergency', Small Wars Journal (February 2011), online, with associated blog.
'Extracting counterinsurgency lessons: Afghanistan and Malaya, at the RUSI website (Autumn 2009).
