Six academics have been awarded new Institute Fellowships from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The Fellowship allows for staff to pursue a cross-Faculty programme of work for six months within one of the new interdisciplinary institutes at King’s – the Digital Futures Institute and the Global Cultures Institute.

Alongside the new Fellows, 19 new projects have been assigned microgrants to celebrate the new institutes and to further Arts & Humanities expertise in these fields.

The inaugural Institute Fellows are:

Digital Futures Institute: Living Well with Technology

• Dr Kate Devlin (Jan – Jun 2024)
    · Creative and Humanistic AI
• Dr Brian Kavanagh (Jul – Dec 2023)
    · Using digital to engage new classical music audiences
• Dr Anna Maerker (Jul – Dec 2023)
    · Disability in History and Culture, and the History of Palliative Care

Global Cultures Institute: Talking beyond boundaries

• Professor Erica Carter (Jul 2023-Jan 2024)?
    · ‘Unhoused archives’ and new thinking on postcolonial restitution
• Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Jan – Jun 2024)
    · Creolised enclaves of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
• Dr Zoe Norridge (Jan – Jun 2024)
    · Cultural responses to conflict in Bosnia and Rwanda

The microgrants are up to £1,500 and provide seed funding for projects aligned with the theme of the institutes and network – the list of awardees are as follows and are all for the 2022-23 Academic Year.

Digital Futures Institute: Living Well with Technology

• Dr Aqeel Abdulla – Digital Archive and Syrian Culture
• Dr Giota Alevizou and Dr Michael Duggan - Communication infrastructures and students’ navigation of London as a digital city
• Dr Daniel Chavez Heras – Future of Computational Moving Image Studies
• Dr Munira Cheema - Emerging debates on the rise of nationalism in South Asia
• Dr Martin Dinter - Untranslated and unedited texts from the Global South
• Dr Jelena Dzakula – A novel way to regulate digital technologies
• Dr Adelene Buckland - History of technologies designed to undertake infant care
• Dr Jonathan Gray and Dr Maud Borie – Responding to ecological issues through collections of digital materials
• Dr Christopher Holliday – AI and filmmaking practices
• Professor Mark Shiel – Digital maps, VR and understanding Hollywood cinema
• Dr Rush Stewart – Understanding algorithmic fairness
• Professor Gonda Van Steen – Digital approaches to the decolonization movement

Global Cultures Institute: Talking beyond boundaries

• Professor Btihaj Ajana – Refugee crises and economies of sympathy
• Dr Priyanka Basu and Dr Lizzie Stewart – Moving Paradigms: Movement-based Approaches to Migration, Coloniality, and Fugitive Methods
• Professor Erica Carter – Sudan Memory
• Dr Bernard Geoghegan – Origins of computer graphics in planetary navigation
• Dr Taushif Kara – Decolonisation and Global Islamic Studies
• Dr Frederika Tevebring – Imagining Lost Origins: Migration, Diffusion and the Visual Politics of the Deep Past
• Dr Flora Willson – Aida’s Afterlives: Sourcing Italian Opera in Late-19^th-Century Cairo

Further information about the Fellows and the Projects can be found at the Digital Futures Institute and the Global Cultures Institute.