Dr Karan Vickers-Hulse, Dr Jane Carter and Dr Sarah Whitehouse have been successful in securing funding from the British Academy to deliver a three-day writing and mentorship workshop for early career researchers in South Africa. These workshops will be planned and delivered alongside academics from four universities in South Africa and will focus on early career researchers with an interest in teacher education, social justice, equity, and decolonising knowledge production. The project aims to build capacity in academic writing, publishing, and grant development while creating sustained international research networks and increasing the visibility of African scholarship.
The project builds on existing partnerships with the University of Zululand in KwaZulu-Natal, which were developed through connections with Project Zulu and sustained during previous British Academy funding. The team has reached out to academics in other institutions in South Africa to ensure that they can build a sustainable early career researcher network across universities in South Africa. The bid aligns closely with Project Zulu by extending a shared commitment to educational equity and aims to strengthen the research and teacher education ecosystem that underpins long-term, systemic change in South Africa.