Dr Annamaria La Chimia, Associate Professor at the School of Law, is part of a team that has won a £2 million Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) four-year grant to help East African communities better understand and benefit from marine cultural heritage.
The team, led by Dr Jon Henderson from the University of Nottingham, will conduct research on coastal infrastructure developments in East Africa, exploring ways in which local communities can engage with heritage for educational, social, and economic development. The interdisciplinary project will last four years and will apply an innovative methodology based on a Theory of Change and grounded on the Human Rights Approach to Development.
Annamaria will lead and coordinate the Development Law aspects of the research linking her expertise on development aid, public-private partnership and public procurement with those of the archaeologists, anthropologists, cultural historians and environmental scientists members of the team.
The project aims to transform the way people understand, use and perceive marine cultural heritage as well as the way coastal development projects are executed in Africa.
The project, Rising from the Depths: Utilising Marine Cultural Heritage in East Africa to Help Develop Sustainable Social, Economic and Cultural Benefits, is a joint initiative led by the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with the Universities of Roehampton, York, Ulster, Bournemouth, Uppsala (Sweden), and Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique).
A call for appointing postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, support staff and an online platform and project website are coming soon. If you are interested in knowing more about the project and get involved please contact annamaria.lachimia@nottingham.ac.uk
Posted on Thursday 21st September 2017