65 Community Service Amanzi Springs Community Service The research team based at Amanzi Springs, a Stone Age site located in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, have built a borehole and water pumps for the local community which had suffered from drying of springs brought about by drainage of groundwater. The team also assisted with the renovation of the Early Stone Age and human evolution exhibition of the Albany Museum. Key areas for development (2022 and beyond) A key area for development is to ensure sustainability for three of our essential research personnel. This includes retaining Dr Caruana who is a Lecturer (Grade L) on a fixed-term contract ending March 2022, a fixed-term contract appointment for Dr Lotter who is currently a postDoctoral Fellow, and a fixed-term contract for Ms Edwards-Baker who is employed on a temporary basis as a Laboratory Manager on Grade P8. All of them provide critical skills and expertise without which a multi-disciplinary Institute like ours cannot operate to its full potential in terms of either research or teaching. European Synchrotron In early 2022 we will be collaborating with the European Synchrotron Research Facility on a small project with fossil specimens from Drimolen (Makondo). Should this project prove successful, then we plan to springboard this collaboration into a series of scanning projects, all of which are student-driven. Revival of the Southern African Field Archaeology Journal In collaboration with UNISA, and the Albany Museum in Grahamstown, we have started an initiative to revive the ISI-accredited Southern African Field Archaeology journal. We have just received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in the USA to facilitate its production and publication through the newly established UJ Press. In its revived format it will be the only non-profit, open-access palaeo-journal in Africa, geared to report on all aspects and periods of southern and/or sub-Saharan African archaeology, the palaeo-sciences, and heritage matters. Expansion of the Institute’s Research Collaborations in the African Continent While the P-RI boasts a contingent of 23 research associates with collaborators from 18 countries, only 22% of these are from Africa. This presents a unique opportunity to expand our network in 2021 Bradfield, J. Palaeontological Scientific Trust P-RI/UJ hosting of the 2021 Worked Bone Research Group Meeting 131,000.00 French Institute of South Africa P-RI/UJ hosting of the 2021 Worked Bone Research Group Meeting 20,000.00 International Council of Archaeozoologists P-RI/UJ hosting of t he 2021 Worked Bone Research Group Meeting 10,000.00 National Research Foundation Research Development 89,000.00 Kgotleng, D.W. Wenner-Gren Foundation Global Initiatives Grant for the revival of the Southern African Field Archaeology journal 224,400.00 Lombard, M. University of Johannesburg Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research 100,000.00 Vilakazi, N. National Research Foundation Strategic Investment Grants for Bolts Farm Research group 232,000.00 Fundraising In 2021 we raised a minimum of R1,046,400.00 in research grants. These funds were raised through local funders (85%) and international based donors who donated 25% of the funds.
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