Welcome to Professor Leon Tikly
The Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC) is delighted to announce that in February Professor Leon Tikly joined us as our new part-time Academic Director. Leon will work closely with the Chair in Africa Research and Partnerships, Professor Isabella Aboderin,...
What constitutes ‘excellent’ UK-Africa collaborative research?
As the new REF framework for 2029 is being articulated, with explicit attention given to lessons drawn from the previous round in 2021 and to implications for international research, it’s time to consider what constitutes ‘excellent’ UK-global South collaborative...
From Côte d’Ivoire to the UK – joining Bristol’s research community
The first scholar on PARC’s PhD student mobility scheme, in collaboration with the Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology - Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (PASET-RSIF) and the Cabot Institute, has arrived in Bristol and met...
A view from the Global East
A visit to Bangkok Valuing Voices is an equitable research partnerships tool that was developed jointly by Mahidol University and the University of York with funding from the Wellcome Trust. In early December, PARC Manager Susan Jim was at the “Valuing Voices for...
Towards a Theory of Change
In late November, PARC's Isabella Aboderin, Susan Jim and Eyob Balcha Gebremariam went to Accra, Ghana, to join together with other stakeholders of the Africa Charter and work towards a Theory of Change. The aim was to construct this using a hybrid Theory of Change...