RAI Vacancy

Education and Communications Officer

DEADLINE Monday 1 November 2021 - UK

Full-time

Further particulars

The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) is seeking to appoint a full-time Education and Communications Officer, starting 1 January 2022. The Education and Communications Officer will be expected to work from the RAI’s offices in London and take an active role in the RAI’s core activities and programmes alongside other members of staff. Anthropology education, in its widest sense, is a significant part of the RAI’s mission and activity in this area is led by the RAI’s Education Committee. The post holder will have special responsibilities for supporting and developing the RAI’s educational activities, services and resources, with particular focus on developing the RAI Teaching and Learning Platform, supporting non-university anthropology education, as well as organising out-reach events, engaging in broader communication activities, and contributing to the day-to-day administration of the RAI, including providing administrative support to the Education Committee.

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Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society

Virtual Conference 6 -10 June 2022

Call for Panels Deadline: 4 November 2021

Proposals for panels are invited for the virtual conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. AI has come to represent multiple causal drivers of change: amongst them artificial intelligence itself, space exploration, bio-tech and other emerging technologies. The implications for human society could hardly be more significant, and feed into a host of already contemporary concerns, such as sovereignty, economics, politics, reproduction and kinships, ethics and law, conflict and many more.

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Anthropology and Conservation Conference

Registration now Open!

Virtual Conference 25-29 October 2021

Registration for the conference is via this online form.

We are very pleased to announce a major interdisciplinary conference on Anthropology and Conservation.  The aim of the conference is simple: it is increasingly recognised that conservation can only be properly achieved with Indigenous Peoples, in full recognition of their rights. It is therefore urgent that we develop cross-disciplinary understanding not just of conservation, but also of the way that conservation and people go together. The conference will be held virtually.

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