The REFA Forum
REFA’s events-wide programme brings research into conversation with the people who can question it, strengthen it and carry it into practice.
REFA Exchange Seminar Series
Sankofa, Ubuntu, and the Griot’s Circle: Reimagining Internationalisation through African Storytelling
Professor Bolanle Simeon-Fayomi presents current work, followed by a focused response and discussion.
Several Ways to Meet
The Forum is REFA’s relationship-building space. It connects current research with scholars, policymakers, practitioners, institutions and communities through formats chosen for the question at hand.
Each event begins with a clear purpose, the right participants and a credible route for what should happen after the conversation.
How the Programme Takes Shape
Exchange Seminar Series
Current research discussed with people who can test, interpret or use it.
See the Next Exchange →Policy Breakfasts
Small, focused conversations built around a live policy or institutional question.
Programme-ledREFA Spotlight
A public conversation around one person, body of work or timely question.
Programme-ledIdeas Labs
Working sessions for a defined challenge, where people can build and test a possible response together.
Programme-ledWorkshop Series
Structured sessions for developing methods, outputs and practical capability.
Programme-ledAnnual Assembly
The late-November anchor bringing the Network, clusters, partners and wider Forum programme into one shared conversation.
View the 2027 Anchor →REFA Annual Assembly 2027
Bringing the Research Programme into One Shared Conversation
The first REFA Annual Assembly will bring together the Network, the 6 research clusters, policy and practice relationships, and the wider Forum programme.
Programme and participation details will be published as the Assembly develops.
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