Promoting Meaningful and Equitable Relationships? Exploring the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Funding Criteria from the Perspectives of African Partners
Promoting Meaningful and Equitable Relationships? Exploring the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Funding Criteria from the Perspectives of African Partners
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DOI：
10.1057/s41287-020-00274-z
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发表时间：
2020-07-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Mitchell, Rafael
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作者：
Grieve, Tigist;Mitchell, Rafael
在北方和南方学者之间历史性不平等的背景下，英国全球挑战研究基金（GCRF）呼吁英国学者和全球南方合作伙伴之间建立“有意义和公平”的研究伙伴关系。本文利用定性数据从三个研讨会在埃塞俄比亚，卢旺达和英国的非洲为基础的研究合作伙伴的角度来询问GCRF的资助标准。全球合作框架的标准是根据非洲伙伴在这类国际研究伙伴关系中的经验和期望加以考虑的，以便丰富和扩大目前关于发展研究中权力关系的辩论。研究发现，全球气候变化框架的标准确实解决了非洲伙伴的许多常见的历史性关切问题，同时也确定了这一供资计划和类似供资计划可能无意中重现南方内部结构性不平等的方式。在强调这些不太明显的公平问题时，本文为资助者、学术界和其他关心建立真正公平的研究伙伴关系的人吸取了经验教训。
Against a backdrop of historic inequities between Northern and Southern scholars, the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) calls for "meaningful and equitable" research partnerships between UK-based academics and partners in the Global South. This paper draws on qualitative data from three workshops in the Ethiopia, Rwanda and the UK to interrogate GCRF funding criteria from the perspectives of African-based research partners. The GCRF criteria are considered with respect to African partners' experiences of, and aspirations from, such international research partnerships in order to enrich and extend ongoing debates about power relations in development research. The study finds that GCRF criteria do address many of the familiar historic concerns of African partners, while also identifying ways in which this and similar funding schemes may unintentionally reproduce structural inequities within the South. In highlighting these less visible equity concerns, the paper draws lessons for funders, academics and others concerned with establishing genuinely equitable research partnerships.