Hetan Shah
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CEO @BritishAcademy_ Chair @OurWorldinData Board NAO; Visiting Prof KCL; Advisory: @Resfoundation @BennettInst @UCLPolicyLab Fellow @BirkbeckUoL Posts my own
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Can Big Data Reveal the Origins of Purdah?
Using ‘Google Arts & Culture’, I have analysed thousands of museum exhibits, to trace South Asia’s cultural evolution over five millennia.
What did I learn?
ggd.world/p/can-big-data… cc Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ Shruti Rajagopalan Arpit Gupta
This is so cool - how The British Academy Fellow Jane Ohlmeyer is using AI and digital tech to recover lost and hidden stories of women in history
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
The British Academy has today announced the recipients of 8 Global Professorships awards. The scheme fosters collaboration between leading international researchers and UK-based institutions working on cutting-edge research projects. See the full list:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/eight-new…
This is so cool - how The British Academy Fellow Jane Ohlmeyer is using AI and digital tech to recover lost and hidden stories of women in history
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…
Global CO2 emissions from aviation have quadrupled since the 1960s and are likely to keep rising as only around 10% of people fly in a given year, and this will grow as incomes rise. Great Our World in Data explainer
ourworldindata.org/global-aviatio…
1/2 Two rather different pieces on the Rwanda genocide. This excellent piece by Alec Russell (and input from The British Academy Hon Fellow Philippe Sands) explores the possibilities of securing legal justice
ft.com/content/b6e010…
‘He has never been interested in straight narrative storytelling; he has instead found disturbing and poetic ways to deconstruct historical myth’
Feature on The British Academy Hon Fellow John Akomfrah ahead of his representing the UK at the Venice Biennale theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…