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International Development Research @ Cambridge

 
  • 19Mar

    This Masterclass will explore the similarities and differences between particular disciplinary approaches to co-creation with end-users – systems design, public health-oriented co-creation methodologies, product development and participatory development research – and their application to scientific research that intends to benefit communities in developing countries.

  • 19Mar

    The Global Food Security (GFS) programme invites expressions of interest from post-doctoral researchers to take part in a Policy Lab on the determinants of food choice (e.g. biological, social, environmental, physical and economic) and the combination of interventions across these that will lead to healthier and more sustainable diets.

  • 19Mar

    NERC are inviting applications from UK scientists to attend a joint workshop with Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Perú (CONCYTEC) on Peruvian Glacial Retreat & its Impact on Water Security & Resilience to Natural Hazards.

  • 16Mar

    For this panel discussion and fundraising reception, the Department of Sociology of the University of Cambridge and Doctors Under Fire will be welcoming a distinguished panel from medicine, media, international law and politics – Dr David Nott, Hamish de Bretton Gordon, Toby Cadman, Saleyha Ahsan and Sir Stephen O’Brien – to discuss recent events in Eastern Ghouta, Syria and their implications for humanitarian affairs and diplomacy.

  • 14Mar

    The East of England Global Health Conference will bring together academics and healthcare professionals to share learning from global health activity in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals, and will build a platform for better collaboration across academia and clinical practice.

  • 14Mar

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme, is inviting Expressions of Interest to attend a two-day workshop on the 14-15 March 2018 to engage in discussion and initiate new collaborative working partnerships with selected Chinese participants in the area of low-carbon manufacturing. The workshop will be held in Wuhan, China. A UK-China call for research proposals, to be funded by EPSRC in partnership with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), will follow the workshop, although attendance at the workshop is not a requirement to apply to the call.

  • 09Mar

    The REAL Centre one day conference on 9th March celebrates the work of Professor Christopher Colclough. The event will be opened by Sir Richard Jolly, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.

  • 08Mar

    Faiza Shaheen presents her personal, positive vision - and then leads discussion - on how we can make Britain less class-ridden and more socially mobile, for the benefit of all in 2027.

  • 07Mar

    The CRISPR revolution: Changing life will bring together experts from industry, academia and government to discuss the current state-of-the art in the use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to understand biological pathways, to create cellular and animal models of disease, to develop improved agricultural crops and farm animals and to create new human therapies to correct somatic gene defects that lead to disease.

  • 07Mar

    British Antarctic Survey is hosting a workshop in Cambridge to bridge science, policy and business to explore solutions for reducing and mitigating ocean plastic pollution.

Welcome to Cambridge Global Challenges

Cambridge Global Challenges is the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) of the University of Cambridge that aims to enhance the contribution of its research towards addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, with a particular focus on the poorest half of the world’s population.

 

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