Full Description
Strategic research partnerships and collaborations between universities in Africa and the Global North are growing rapidly. Knowledge Across Borders critically reflects on how African universities and universities in the Global North conceptualize, operationalize, and navigate the imperatives of equality, equity and mutual benefit.
Bringing African universities to the fore and drawing on experience of existing partnerships in over 20 research networks, 50 countries, over 50 universities and 4 continents, this is the first book focused on critical reflections of knowledge networks created and co-created by African universities with universities in the Global North. Addressing how partnerships are often forged in what are asymmetrical contexts and institutions - with imbalances in levels of institutional development, experience in research, academic reputation and unequal resources - chapters focus on how reciprocity can be grounded in the research mission of knowledge networks. Rather than focusing on one sided flows from the Global North to the Global South of staff and students, contributors critically examine strategic and intentional leadership, management and operationalization, power, voice, agency, co-creation and societal impact in the dynamics of research partnering and collaborating in an unequal world, making the argument that if reciprocity in the relationships is not addressed it will undermine principled and ethical research that engenders transformative change in Africa and globally.
This is a rich resource relevant to policy makers, research funding agencies and foundations, university leadership in Africa/Global South and the Global North, research leaders, researchers, senior management and administrators in universities, post graduate students and practitioners of sustainable development in civil society.
Contents
Foreword; Funmi Olonisakin
Chapter 1. Introduction; Tawana Kupe
Chapter 2. The African Global University Project (AGUP) at the University of Pretoria: Insights and Lessons from the University's Internationalisation and Global Engagement Strategy; Farai Kapfudzaruwa and Tawana Kupe
Chapter 3. Perspectives on Equal and Equitable Research and Innovation Partnerships: Selected Case Studies from the Global South; Sibusiso Moyo
Chapter 4. From Inclusion to Impact: Advancing Equitable Collaborations through the Alliance for African Partnership; Titus Awokuse and Steven D. Hanson
Chapter 5. Advancing Equitable and Transformative Partnerships with African Institutions: Lessons and Opportunities from the Alliance for African Partnership (AAP); José Jackson, Farai Kapfudzaruwa, and Amy Jamison
Chapter 6. Building Equitable Partnerships through the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence; Ernest Aryeetey and Emmanuel Adu-Danso
Chapter 7. From Policy to Implementation: The Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence from a European Perspective; Jan Palmowski
Chapter 8. Research and Education in Partnership: Challenges to Shape the World We Need; Patrick Caron
Chapter 9. Pipeline to Partnership: Towards a Model for North-South Early-Career Research Collaboration; Kyle Farmbry, Luzaan Afrika, and Ronél Koch
Chapter 10. Conclusion; Tawana Kupe
