Taylor & Francis partners with The Conversation Africa to boost engagement with African research

Taylor & Francis and The Conversation Africa announce a new partnership to facilitate African researchers increasing public engagement with their work and expertise. By acting as Funding Partner, Taylor & Francis will work with The Conversation Africa to highlight essential African research and offer T&F authors, journal editors, and publishing partners closer links with the African news website. The Conversation is an international network of news websites, addressing the news agenda from an academic perspective. TC-Africa was established in 2015, joining Conversation websites in Australia, the UK, France and the US into a global newsroom dedicated to transforming knowledge from universities and research institutions into concise, readable articles. After just two years, TC-Africa has made an indelible footprint, with a reach of over 1.2 million reads a month. With all articles published under a Creative Commons licence, free republishing results in wide global readership of the content written by individual academics. Commenting on the new partnership, Pfungwa Nyamukachi, Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Relations for TC-Africa states, “The era of fake news is making it critical that academics and scientists engage with audiences outside traditional peer-to-peer communities. The Conversation Africa has a mission to amplify the voices of African scientists and put academic research into the public domain in an easy and accessible way. We do this by prov...
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