NERC has announced that its second round of investment in doctoral training partnerships (DTP2) will be made through a fully open competitive call. The DTP2 call will be launched in early January 2018, at which point an announcement of opportunity will be published on the NERC website. To ensure clear communication regarding the scope and expectations of this call, NERC will be holding a town hall meeting for interested parties to discuss the call in more detail with NERC staff and to network with potential DTP partners.

Restrictions on the movement of people to the countries developed west are often defended on the grounds that it is necessary to protect the liberal democratic values that might otherwise be undermined by uncontrolled immigration. Pre-eminent among these are the values of freedom and equality.

The Medical Research Council has organised a one-day workshop titled “Cancer Research and Global Health”, intending to inform the cancer research community about all funding opportunities for global health across the MRC’s remit, including new GCRF funding. It will also be an ideal setting for researchers to discuss ideas.

Kate Raworth presents her personal, positive vision - and then leads discussion - on how we can 'rethink Economics', to transform what we aim for and how we measure success, for the benefit of all in 2027.

Dr Sander van der Linden (Department of Psychology) presents on the role behavioural science in policy incentive outcomes as part of the "In Search of Good Energy Policy" seminar series hosted by the Energy Research SRI.

The Sandpit aims to bring together Graduate and Early Career Researchers in Cambridge to form small inter-disciplinary teams to generate and develop new technology-based ideas that could provide effective and affordable solutions to challenges faced in the developing world.

This programme aims to equip non-economists working on issues of international development to engage better with economists and policy-makers on economic matters. Participants will learn how to identify, understand, apply, discuss, and if necessary challenge economics in development.

This NERC-affiliated course covers practical experience of geophysical data collection, analysis and interpretation under commercial conditions - a key skill for future research and/or commercial sector employment.

This Royal Society meeting will provide a cross-disciplinary platform to advance new methods and analytical approaches to detecting functional change in tropical ecosystems, conspicuously missing from contemporary models and meta-analyses of global change.

This Masterclass will explore the similarities and differences between particular disciplinary approaches to co-creation with end-users – namely participatory development research, public health-oriented methodologies, agile software development and human-computer interaction design – in developing world contexts.