Recipient David Atkinson
Date 22 April, 2022
Amount £3946
Summary I request limited research support to deliver my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), 2022-23. Around eight SRFs are awarded annually to finalise a specific research project that was paused while the academic undertook significant leadership roles. My SRF is entitled ‘Colonial Science’, the production of space and its afterlives in Italian North Africa. It will support the publication of archival research funded by a SLS award: ‘Colonial Science’ and the production of comprehensible territory in Italian Libya (2015-19). This work was delayed by my service as Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise (2016-21, including the challenging pandemic period). Additionally, the archives offered much richer materials than anticipated and I hope to include this material in the outputs of the SRF project. To this end, I request support for this final archival work - because SRFs do not offer costs, but do encourage applicants to collaborate with the BIRI.