Funding Success: £25.4k secured from the British Academy for decolonial writing workshops
Dr Leon Moosavi, Co-Director of the Liverpool Sociological Research Cluster, and his co-applicants have secured £25.4k funding from the British Academy (UK), as part of the International Writing Workshops programme, to deliver training and mentorship to scholars from the Global South.
Dr Moosavi will partner with Dr Camila Prando (University of Brasilia) and Professor Nina Nurmila (Indonesian International Islamic University) to deliver the project, entitled ‘Decolonial Writing Workshops: Empowering Brazilian and Indonesian Women Scholars to Publish Global Academic Knowledge’. The team will deliver multiple writing workshops and sustained mentorship for early-career women scholars in Brazil and Indonesia.
The project seeks to empower these scholars to overcome the intersectional marginalisation that they may encounter in international knowledge production. This partnership aspires to equip the participants with knowledge and skills which have a long-lasting impact on not only their own academic careers but will also provide knowledge to share with future generations of students in their locality.
The project will also facilitate South-South networking and collaboration between Brazilian and Indonesian scholars to produce new and valuable opportunities across the Global South.
Speaking of the funding award, Dr Leon Moosavi, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology, shared:
“I'm very excited about the opportunity to work with Camila and Nina on this unique project. I am hopeful that we will be able to utilise this research funding to disrupt some of the global inequalities that characterise academic knowledge production. There is a vast pool of talent in the Global South and I am looking forward to collaborating with all of the participants in the spirit of equitable partnership and mutual enrichment”.
Professor Susan Pickard, Head of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology, said:
“I want to wish Leon congratulations on this funding award, which is set to empower researchers from diverse backgrounds and drive meaningful change in academia. This research underpins our commitment to knowledge exchange that transcends geographical boundaries and enriches communities globally. This is made possible by the supportive research environment we have built up in both the Department and the School in recent years, thanks to initiatives including the STAR programme and other mentoring and research development structures.”
The project is funded by the British Academy’s International Writing Workshops Programme (Award Reference: WW23\100429).