College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
Unisan awarded prestigious British Academy Equitable Partnerships funding
The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) is proud to announce that Prof Ashley Gunter, Acting Deputy Executive Dean, has been selected as one of the ten successful recipients of the British Academy’s Equitable Partnerships Workshops Follow-on Funding 2025.
Prof Ashely Gunter, Acting Deputy Executive Dean, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
The British Academy launched this competitive call to support and strengthen existing international equitable research collaborations that emerged from its Equitable Partnerships Workshop Series. The workshops aimed to shape sector-wide commitments and practical approaches to promote more just and inclusive global research partnerships.
Gunter’s funded project, titled "Next-Gen Partnerships: Advocacy and Sensitisation of Equitable Research Collaboration Principles to New Actors", has been awarded £29 300 to build on previous British Academy engagements and the AHRC-funded Equitable African-led partnership in Kenya and South Africa.
The project aims to widen the audience for equitable partnerships through focused advocacy in the global North and greater reach within Historically Black Universities (HBUs) in South Africa. It will convene two major workshops, one in the UK and one in South Africa, with approximately 60 participants each. These workshops will invite emerging and underrepresented voices into the discourse around equitable collaboration, with the intention of initiating new partnerships and testing a live framework for sustainable, balanced global research relationships.
"This funding is a significant recognition of Unisa’s leadership in rethinking how research partnerships are formed, especially between institutions in the global South and North," says Gunter. "It is a step toward creating models of collaboration that are inclusive, reciprocal, and truly transformative."
The British Academy’s Equitable Partnerships Workshops Follow-on Funding is supported by the UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund, managed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and funded through Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Unisa continues to demonstrate its commitment to impactful, socially responsive research and meaningful global partnerships. Congratulations to Prof Gunter for leading a project that aligns with the University’s vision for decolonised, collaborative and contextually relevant knowledge production.
* By Gugu Masinga, Marketing and Communications Specialist, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Publish date: 2025-06-26 00:00:00.0
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