Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson held Leverhulme Early Career matched funding with the Isaac Newton Trust between 2021-2024. Kelly’s project, ‘Communication Faultlines on the Frontlines’, charted and analysed the ways that individual experiences, bodies, and moral judgments contribute to specific definitions of value and social action.
She continues to work with young people and their extended social and educational networks to facilitate a citizen-science, multimodal approach called ABC: Anthropology By Children. Anthropology By Communities.
Kelly told the Trust, “It is not an overstatement to say that Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Trust funding of this project has transformed not just my approach to anthropology, but to my life. It has enabled me to reckon with things within my discipline and within broader society which have always felt, to me, incomplete and imbalanced, and to begin to address these elements in ways that feel like important contributions to me. I am incredibly grateful for your support.”
We are delighted to hear that this project was such a success! Since completing this project, Kelly has gone on to secure a fixed-term Assistant Professorship at University of Cambridge in the Department of Social Anthropology. She continues to work on similar projects focusing on Disability anthropology and related knowledge-making approaches.
Image credit: Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson
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