ASA Networks

Network of Applied Anthropologists (APPLY)
The ASA Network of Applied Anthropologists (Apply) aims to: provide an arena for communication between practitioners, academics and students of anthropology.

ASA Anthropology of Britain Network (AOB)
The aim of the network is to provide a forum which will facilitate a greater level of communication between researchers with an ethnographic interest in the qualitative characteristics of contemporary British society, from ethnicity and migration to rural communities, museums, popular culture, social movements, gender, health and medical technologies, social exclusion, local governance, and political structures.

ASA Anthropology of Time Network (Time)
The aim of the network is to provide a space that brings together researchers interested in the study of time and temporality, facilitating links between scholars from diverse ethnographic and intellectual backgrounds at any stages of their career to cultivate research collaboration, knowledge-exchange and circulation of ideas.

Postgraduate network and Anthropology Matters
The ASA postgraduate network is managed by postgraduates through the online initiative Anthropology Matters. They have a well-established open access, online journal - recently redesigned using use a state of the art system - and an active email distribution list used to alert members to jobs, grants, conferences, and to promote collaboration/discussion.

Museu Nacional Solidarity Network
This webpage provides information about initiatives supporting the efforts of colleagues in Brazil who are working to re-establish the post-graduate programme in social anthropology after the fire at the Museu Nacional in Sept 2018.

UK Network for the Anthropology of Christianity (UKNAC)
The UK Network for the Anthropology of Christianity (UKNAC) exists to strengthen connections among anthropologists exploring a broad range of Christian social and religious life.

Early Career Researchers’ Network (ECR)
The Early Career Researchers’ (ECR) Network aims to bring together postgraduate researchers, PhD’s (current or completed), postdoctoral fellows, and early career professionals, from across ethnographic and intellectual backgrounds, to facilitate greater conversations around anthropology as a discipline, a method, and a profession.

Climate Network
This network brings together social anthropologists in the UK who are interested in both understanding and intervening in the climate crisis.

Addiction Anthropology
This network aims to establish Britain as an alternative centre of addiction anthropology, by providing a clear institutional structure for collaboration and discovery.

 

Invitation for proposals

Introduction

The ASA committee supports the development of a series of ASA networks, intended to facilitate links between anthropologists with common interests and to promote the activities of these groups. Networks, study-groups and societies have proved a popular and successful part of several of the ASA's contemporary professional Anthropological and sociological Associations in Britain and overseas. The success of networks and study groups in the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) and the BSA (British Sociological Association) has indicated that a Network that is part of an established professional association can bring several advantages:

• Drawing together anthropologists who have common interests and concerns who work both within and outside academic departments
• Providing an established group or forum that postgraduate students can identify their interest with
• Established networks validated by a professional association may stand a stronger chance of attracting external funding for seminars, conferences, joint research projects and other activities

Organisation

Each network will be run by one or more joint convenors who must be full members of the ASA and are responsible for:

• Representing the network to the ASA committee
• Financial management of the network
• Providing brief reports to the ASA ABM
• Management of the network's mailing lists
• Providing a short description of the network for the ASA annals and website
• Ensuring that the network meets at least once annually

How to set up a network

Proposals for an ASA network should be sent to the ASA committee for approval at a committee meeting. These should include:

• Title of the network
• Aims and Objectives
• List of proposed members
• Proposed activities (such as meetings and conferences, project proposals, joint publications etc)

A network should initially have at least 7 members.

Membership status of Network members

Network members need not be full members of the ASA. However they will not be granted the usual benefits of membership of the ASA (as outlined in the Annals) unless they join the ASA according to the normal procedure (outlined in the Annals).

Finances

The network is responsible for its own finances as separate from the ASA and will manage any funds awarded from external bodies through the organisers' institutions.

Support from the ASA

The ASA will provide support for the following:

• Help will be given to construct network mailing lists based on information that the ASA has on its membership database (complying with the data protection act)
• Space on the ASA website to publicise network news, activities and other work
• Networks will be entitled to submit works for publication through the ASA's publishing links
• Funds may be awarded to Networks for the development of activities or projects on application to the committee. However this will depend on availability of funds for this purpose on a year-to-year basis. See below.

Financial support for network activities

The ASA is committed to supporting the activities of our professional networks. To this end, we have set aside £400 per financial year specifically for applicants from the networks and for the support of network activities.
To apply for support of a network activity, please send the following to the ASA Networks Officer (networker(AT)theasa.org):

• Short description of purpose of funds and the network it applies to (max 300 words)
• Breakdown of costs
• Any information with regard to other financial support applied for or received

Please direct any enquiries to the ASA's Networks Officer (networker(AT)theasa.org).