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Proposal for
MONASH Africa Research Institute (MARI)
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Why MONASH Africa Research Institute?
• No existing African Research Centre in Australia
• Growing importance of links with Africa – trade and migration
• Opportunity to build Monash research profile in Africa
• Opportunity to improve links with MSA and other universities in Africa
• Opportunity for Monash to lead closer collaboration with Africa and contribute to African development goals
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MARI’s Mission:
To promote and support research in Africa by Australian researchers, focusing on research and links in South Africa but also including research in other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa
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How?
• Australian hub, led by prominent scholar to provide academic leadership, coordinate and facilitate postgraduate research
• Australian-based Executive Office with officer to fund-raise; liaise with business, government and community; oversee external linkages
• African-based node at MSA with academic director to coordinate teaching and research in African Studies at MSA and liaise with Australian hub
• Eventual transfer of MARI hub to MSA
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Key research areas:
• Economic development• Public policy• Governance• Linguistics• Medicine• Public Health• Water Policy• Climate Change• Migration• History• Anthropology• Ethnography of language, language contact
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Teaching initiatives
• Foster research-led coursework units in African Studies, both in Africa and Australia
• Key links with BA (Global) and student mobility in general
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Research Training
MARI to serve as Virtual Graduate School to coordinate postgraduate research study across Australia and, as technology improves, in Africa
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Funding
Seed funding from DVC(I) for Executive Director to seek external corporate and federal funding to fund ongoing Professor, administrative staff, HDR scholarships and research fellowships
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Outcomes
• International research linkages/funding• Increased HDRs• Internationalised curriculum and curriculum
exchange between MSA and Australia (in both directions)
• Increased profile for Monash research in Africa and elsewhere
• Increased impact of Monash research on policy development in Australia and Africa