Royal Anthropological Institute and Anthropologists’ Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research (AFUAR)
The Programme
This unique scheme, privately funded by anthropologists (founding sponsor: Dr George Appell) has been running since 1995. It is designed to support ethnographic research on currently threatened indigenous peoples, cultures and languages. Its primary aim is to contribute to anthropological knowledge through detailed ethnography. It therefore differs from programmes in applied anthropology, although research conducted within the programme can be expected to support the welfare and survival of endangered peoples.
The Fellowships are held at a host institution, and are awarded by open competition without restriction of nationality or residence. The selection is made by a committee of the RAI, on which the host institution is represented. The Fellowship makes it possible for a budgeted project to be carried out over about 18 months: this period to include both field research and writing-up. Fellows are required to spend part of their fellowship period in the field and part attached to the host Department, where they are expected to contribute to its academic life. Fellowship applicants are required to submit a budget including all personal and research expenses, insurance, and costs of equipment necessary for the project.
Goldsmiths (University of London), Durham University and the University of Kent have hosted the programme to 2010. In September 2010 the University of Kent will host a reunion seminar New Directions for Urgent Anthropological Research. For details click here.
From 2011, the programme returns to Goldsmiths, and applications are now invited for the fifteenth Fellowship. For details click here.
For general information on the Fund for Urgent Anthropology please click here.
