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AFRICAN SOCIETY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE 2024AYATUTU KA UNO: A Decade of Interconnectedness and Growthby Esther Wadzanai ManoWe are thrilled to share the unique highlights and transformative experiences from the recently concluded 10th anniversary African Society of Cambridge University Conference 2024, held from May 3rd to May 5th at the…

Dr. Garima Sahai is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography, and bye-fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.She contributed to the Youth & Work session at our recent conference and has produced a summary of the insightful work presented and subsequent discourse around the challenges to youth employment in the Global S…

Nikita Jha, a Gates Scholar here at the University of Cambridge, acted as our chat monitor for the recent conference and has produced an insightful blog highlighting key messages and takeways during the fruitful talks & discussions.

Dr Ebele Mogo is a researcher at the MRC Epidemiology Unit and the founder of the volunteer-run nonprofit Engage Africa Foundation, which uses people-centred and innovative approaches to engage communities especially young people in prevention.While Engage Africa Foundation’s focus has been on non-communicable diseases, the organisation is drawing …

Professor Cecilia Mascolo (Department of Computer Science and Technology) and Professor Pietro Cicuta (Department of Physics) have, together with Professor Andres Floto (Research Director of the Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection at Papworth Hospital) launched a web app for large-scale, crowdsourced data collection.Since April 2020, the COVID-19 S…

By Ali Mohammad Rezaie, Saleemul Huq, William J. Sutherland, Alan F. BlackwellIndigenous peoples (IPs) have long been living with nature and observing natural changes whilst sustainably managing and protecting more than 25% of world’s landscape. While IPs constitute only 5% of the world’s population, they contribute to 80% of global biodiversity co…

By Savio Rousseau Rozario, Afsara Binte Mirza & Fatema Akhter IntroductionThe impacts of climate change are evident on the social, economic and political spheres of the least developed and developing nations, and Bangladesh is no exception. Over the last few decades, multiple studies claim that the intensity and frequency of rapid and slow onset ev…

We carried out a social listening exercise to understand how members of the Nigerian public were responding to COVID-19 pandemic control measures between January and August 2020. This exercise helped to trace the evolution of the conversation, identify atypical actors and thus potential collaborators for championing health changes, while gaining i…

This diary-based project sought to understand the livelihood impacts of COVID-19 on more vulnerable young people in Indonesia and Nepal. In partnership with the Asian Development Bank, Restless Development and the University of Cambridge, nearly 1500 diaries were collected from 100 young people, giving insight into how labor and education disruptio…

Research on working-from-home has largely focused on middle class mothers pursuing corporate careers in countries in the Global North. There is little to no research on the experiences of women situated in the Global South who are inchoately adapting to working-from-home, most recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to participate in the gl…

The project applied engineering skills to use adaptors on the second stage of diving tanks to connect them to medical grade oxygen masks –  as well as create rebreathers for hospitals, organise the logistics from identifying diving centres and hospitals in need. The project is co-led by Global Shapers Hubs networks and several engineers from the Un…

Dear Cambridge Global Challenges Colleagues,Following an FCDO Update on the UK ODA cuts, released through a written brief at 5pm on 21 April 2021, we wanted to send an update to the Global Challenges network.We can only continue to ask you to please do the following:Share the information through social media, talk to journalists, write to your MPs,…

Dear Cambridge Global Challenges Colleagues,You will all be aware of recent announcements and media coverage of cuts to research funding. This will affect many of our projects and the partners we are working with. In these uncertain times, we aim to summarise the information we have here, and ask you to share this further to maintain momentum in th…

As the new academic year approaches, Cambridge Global Challenges prepares for its next three years of activity in partnership with colleagues in the Global South. We are delighted to welcome Professor Pauline Rose as Co-Director and look forward to continuing a interdisciplinary approach to international development research through our transition …

DFID and FCO merger must prioritise research for alleviating poverty: An open letterThis open letter from the University of Cambridge follows the announcement on 16 June 2020 by the Prime Minister of the merger of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) into a new department – the Foreign, Commo…