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Home About People Global challenges research at Cambridge Advancing Cambridge global challenges research Funding News and Events Dr Arjuna Sathiaseelan University initiatives on conflict Professor Koen Steemers (Advisory Board)

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About overview

Strategic Themes

Principles of Engagement

Partnerships with sub-Saharan Africa

People

People overview

Dr Alexandre Kabla

Interdisciplinary Research Centre Leads

External Advisory Board

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig

Dr Helena Perez-Nino

Dr Ajith Kumar Parlikad

Dr Jennifer Molloy

Professor Alan Blackwell (Director of Research)

Dr Alexander Patto

Dr Alexander Archibald

Dr Karishma Jain

Dr Ljiljana Fruk

Dr Alexandre Kabla

Alexandra Grigore

Dr Pratheeba Vimalnath

Dr Alexandra Winkels

Stewart McTavish

Dr Alice Moncaster

Professor Alison Smith

Dr Andrés Arcia-Moret

Dr Vibhuti Patel

Dr Andrew Marsden

Dr Anne Alexander

Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Ashwin Seshia

Dr Bhaskar Vira (Advisory Board)

Professor Bill Clyne

Dr Bjoern Hassler

Professor Carol Brayne (Advisory Board)

Dr Catherine Rhodes

Professor Cecilia Mascolo

Dr Charlotte Sausman

Dr Chris Sandbrook

Christian Boehm

Christiana Smyrilli

Professor Clare Grey (Advisory Board)

Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys

Dan Storisteanu

Dr Darshil Shah

Professor David Dunne (Advisory Board)

Dr David Fairen-Jimenez

Dr David Good (Director of Research)

Dr Dongfang Liang

Dr Dora Pereira

Elisabeth Liddle

Dr Elizabeth Wagemann

Dr Erwin Reisner (Advisory Board)

Dr Garima Sahai

Giles Barton-Owen

Dr Hatice Gunes

Professor Howard Griffiths (Advisory Board)

Dr Ingrid Schröder

Dr Ivan Reyna-Lorens

Jacqueline Garget

Professor Jaideep Prabhu

Dr Jake Reynolds

Dr James Griffiths

Dr Jennifer Molloy

Professor Jennifer Schooling

Dr Jenny Tillotson

Professor Jeremy Baumberg (Advisory Board)

Professor Jim Haseloff

Professor John Clarkson (Advisory Board)

Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera

Professor Judith Driscoll

Dr Julieta Galante

Dr Karishma Jain

Dr Kayla Friedman

Dr Krishnaa Mahbubani

Dr Lara Allen (Director of Implementation and Impact)

Professor Lisa Hall

Dr Ljiljana Fruk

Dr Maria Holgado

Dr Mariana Fazenda

Dr Maximilian Bock

Dr Michael de Volder

Professor Michael Barrett

Miranda Robbins

Dr Mukesh Kumar

Dr Nigel Collier

Oliver Vanderpoorten

Professor Oren Scherman

Professor Paul Tracey

Professor Pauline Rose (Advisory Board)

Dr Richard Fenner (Advisory Board)

Dr Robbie Duschinsky

Dr Robert Doubleday (Advisory Board)

Dr Sanjiv Sambandan

Dr Sarah Nouwen

Dr Shafiq Ahmed

Dr Shailaja Fennell (Advisory Board)

Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Advisory Board)

Dr Sohini Kar Narayan

Dr Tariq Masood

Dr Tim Minshall (Advisory Board)

Dr Vasant Kumar

Dr Yolana Pringle

Dr Zhongzhao Teng

Professor Sarah Radcliffe

Professor Shaz Ansari

Professor Simon Goldhill (Advisory Board)

Professor Simon Szreter

Professor Sir Richard Friend (Advisory Board)

Professor Steve Evans

Stewart McTavish

Global challenges research at Cambridge

Addressing strategic themes in ODA-countries

Ongoing research projects

Research Directory

Advancing Cambridge global challenges research

Advancing Cambridge global challenges research overview

1) Understand challenges faced by the poorest half of the world's population

2) Jointly define research questions addressing challenges in ODA-target countries

Design of global challenges research projects

3) Obtain funding to enact jointly defined research priorities

4) Connect research to implementation in ODA-target countries

Funding facilitation processes, grant operational mechanisms and policy for ODA-remit work at University of Cambridge

Funding

Funding overview

UK ODA budget cuts and DFID and FCO merger

Cambridge College Studentships

News and Events

News and Events overview

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About overview Strategic Themes Principles of Engagement Partnerships with sub-Saharan Africa Contact us

People

People overview Dr Alexandre Kabla Adeline Klotz Dr Dai Morgan Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig Dr Helena Perez-Nino Dr Ajith Kumar Parlikad Dr Jennifer Molloy Professor Alan Blackwell (Director of Research) Dr Alexander Patto Dr Alexander Archibald Dr Karishma Jain Dr Ljiljana Fruk Dr Alexandre Kabla Nicola Buckley Alexandra Grigore Dr Pratheeba Vimalnath Dr Alexandra Winkels Stewart McTavish Dr Alice Moncaster Professor Alison Smith An Bao Dr Andrés Arcia-Moret Dr Vibhuti Patel Dr Andrew Marsden Dr Anne Alexander Aris Vrettos Professor Ashok Venkitaraman Professor Ashwin Seshia Dr Bhaskar Vira (Advisory Board) Professor Bill Clyne Dr Bjoern Hassler Professor Carol Brayne (Advisory Board) Dr Catherine Rhodes Professor Cecilia Mascolo Dr Charlotte Sausman Dr Chris Sandbrook Christian Boehm Christiana Smyrilli Professor Clare Grey (Advisory Board) Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes Professor Sir Colin Humphreys Dr Dai Morgan Dan Storisteanu Dr Darshil Shah Professor David Dunne (Advisory Board) Dr David Fairen-Jimenez Dr David Good (Director of Research) Dr Dongfang Liang Dr Dora Pereira Dr Eiko Yoneki Elisabeth Liddle Dr Elizabeth Wagemann Dr Erwin Reisner (Advisory Board) Fung Sing Choi Dr Garima Sahai Giles Barton-Owen Han Cheng Dr Hatice Gunes Professor Howard Griffiths (Advisory Board) Dr Ingrid Schröder Dr Ivan Reyna-Lorens Jacqueline Garget Professor Jaideep Prabhu Dr Jagjit Srai Dr Jake Reynolds Dr James Griffiths Dr Jat Singh Dr Jennifer Molloy Professor Jennifer Schooling Dr Jenny Tillotson Professor Jeremy Baumberg (Advisory Board) Professor Jim Haseloff Professor John Clarkson (Advisory Board) Dr John Suberu Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera Professor Judith Driscoll Dr Julieta Galante Dr Karishma Jain Dr Karl Prince Kate Parsley Dr Kayla Friedman Dr Krishnaa Mahbubani Dr Lara Allen (Director of Implementation and Impact) Dr Laura James Professor Lisa Hall Dr Ljiljana Fruk Luke Braidwood Dr Maria Holgado Dr Mariana Fazenda Matt Mahmoudi Dr Maximilian Bock Dr Michael de Volder Michael Coto Professor Michael Barrett Michael Meaney Dr Minna Lammi Miranda Robbins Miying Yang Dr Mukesh Kumar Dr Nalin Patel Nicola Buckley Dr Nigel Collier Oliver Vanderpoorten Professor Oren Scherman Orsolya Ihasz Professor Paul Tracey Professor Pauline Rose (Advisory Board) Paulo Savaget Dr Richard Fenner (Advisory Board) Dr Robbie Duschinsky Dr Robert Doubleday (Advisory Board) Dr Sanjiv Sambandan Dr Sarah Nouwen Dr Shafiq Ahmed Dr Shailaja Fennell (Advisory Board) Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Advisory Board) Dr Sohini Kar Narayan Dr Tariq Masood Dr Tim Forman Dr Tim Minshall (Advisory Board) Dr Toby Norman Dr Vasant Kumar Dr Ying Jin Dr Yolana Pringle Dr Zhongzhao Teng Professor Sarah Radcliffe Professor Shaz Ansari Professor Simon Goldhill (Advisory Board) Professor Simon Szreter Professor Sir Richard Friend (Advisory Board) Professor Steve Evans Rainbow Wilcox Ravi Solanki Sarah Garland Stewart McTavish Taskeen Adam Tianheng Zhao Wen Liu

Interdisciplinary Research Centre Leads

Interdisciplinary Research Centre Leads overview Professor Alan Blackwell (Co-Director) Professor Pauline Rose (Co-Director) Raheela Rehman (Research Centre Manager)

External Advisory Board

External Advisory Board overview Ese Emerhi Professor Mizan Khan Dr Nyovani Madise Professor Shedden Masupe Professor Tassew Woldehanna Yamini Aiyar

Steering Group

Steering Group overview Professor Bhaskar Vira Dr. Bronwen Everill Professor Carol Brayne Dr. Caroline Trotter Professor Clare Grey Dr Emma Salgård Cunha Emma Griffiths Professor Emma Mawdsley Dr Tabitha Mwangi Professor Erwin Reisner Professor Frank Tietze Professor Joanna Page Professor John Clarkson Dr. Lara Allen Professor Manuel Eisner Dr. Marissa Quie Dr. Mezna Qato Dr. Mike Rands Renata Schaeffer Dr. Robert Doubleday Dr. Ronita Bardhan Dr. Rosalyn Gregory Professor Shailaja Fennell Dr. Sharath Srinivasan Stephen Davison Student Representation – African Society of Cambridge University (2023/24: Tanatswa Chikaura)

Global challenges research at Cambridge

Research Directory

Addressing strategic themes in ODA-countries

Addressing strategic themes in ODA-countries overview

COVID-19

COVID-19 overview Ongoing projects – welcoming collaboration

Ongoing research projects

Ongoing research projects overview Democratising Education for Global Sustainability and Justice Intellectual Property for Sustainability Projects supported by CGC Sandpit and Seed-Funding Competition on Smart Imaging for Development Projects supported by CGC Seed-Funding Competition on Malnutrition in Developing Countries IPACST (Intellectual Property Models for Accelerating Sustainability Transitions) COMPASS (Comprehensive Capacity-Building in Eastern Neighbourhood and Central Asia: research integration, impact governance and sustainable communities) BUGALERT: Pest and Disease Monitoring in Greenhouses with Raspberry-Pi Network Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship – First Year Projects

Advancing Cambridge global challenges research

Advancing Cambridge global challenges research overview 3) Obtain funding to enact jointly defined research priorities Funding facilitation processes, grant operational mechanisms and policy for ODA-remit work at University of Cambridge

1) Understand challenges faced by the poorest half of the world's population

1) Understand challenges faced by the poorest half of the world's population overview Co-creation Skillathon [9th June 2019] Masterclass in Design Methods for Global Challenges [19th March 2018] Workshop on User-Centred Design in Developing World Contexts [Application deadline: 19th December 2017; 10th January 2018, 9-5pm, Maxwell Centre]

2) Jointly define research questions addressing challenges in ODA-target countries

2) Jointly define research questions addressing challenges in ODA-target countries overview

Global Visitors Programme

Global Visitors Programme overview Shorn Molokwane (Senior Product Designer at Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation) – Visit to Cambridge: 28th November (AM and lunch time) and 29th November (all day) Dr João Salavessa (Universidade Lurio, Mozambique) – Visito to Cambridge: 4th-7th March 2019 Professor Frank Kavishe (Founding Director of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Namibia) – Visit to Cambridge: 26-28th September 2018 Professor Keith Breckenridge (Deputy Director, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa) – Visit to Cambridge: 28-30th March 2018 Mulugeta Gebru (Executive Director, JeCCDO, Ethiopia) – Visit to Cambridge: 18th July 2017 Dr Maneshree Jugmohan-Naidu (Director of Agricultural Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa) – Visit to Cambridge: 24-28th July 2017

Civil Society Workshops

Civil Society Workshops overview Language Sciences / Global Challenges Initiative Research Forum with Africa’s Voices [27th February 2018, 2-3.30 pm] Civil Society Workshop with Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP): Financing Urban Sanitation [26th June 2017, 1.30-5 pm]

In-Country Workshops

In-Country Workshops overview Cambridge Bahir Dar Digital Infrastructure Initiative (BDDII) – Workshops in Cambridge (13th February 2019) and Bahir Dar (12-14th March 2019) Bahir Dar (Ethiopia) – Cambridge Relationship Building Workshop [Application deadline: 16th February; 24-27th March 2018]

Seed Funding to Pump-Priming Activities

Seed Funding to Pump-Priming Activities overview Smart Imaging for Development – Sandpit and Seed-Funding Competition [Application deadline: 3rd November 2019; 26-27th November 2019] Seed funding competition and interdisciplinary workshop on Nutrition challenges in developing countries [Application deadline: 16th November 2018; 21st November 2018, Maxwell Centre] Technology for Development Graduate Sandpit [Application deadline: 19th December 2017; 15th January 2018, Maxwell Centre]

Design of global challenges research projects

Design of global challenges research projects overview Is it ODA? Factsheet 2006 GCRF – Observations on preparing your proposal GCRF – Guidance for Official Development Assistance (ODA) GCRF – Criteria adopted by Strategic Advisory Group

4) Connect research to implementation in ODA-target countries

4) Connect research to implementation in ODA-target countries overview Advancing the impact of University-generated knowledge in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) through academia-industry relations Programme

Funding

Funding overview Cambridge College Studentships

UK ODA budget cuts and DFID and FCO merger

UK ODA budget cuts and DFID and FCO merger overview Case studies of ODA-funded research from across the University of Cambridge

News and Events

News and Events overview News

Events

Events overview COVID-19 in the Global South Symposium 2022 CGC Round Table 2019 CGC Annual Conference 2018 CGC Round Table 2018 CGC Round Table 2017

Halfway to the SDGs Conference – Lessons from the South 2022

Halfway to the SDGs Conference – Lessons from the South 2022 overview Programme Speakers

Outputs

Outputs overview Conference summary - Achieving the SDGs: Three Cs and the One Key Driver of Change Session Summary: Challenges to youth and work in the Global South - the pandemic is only part of the picture Vice-Chancellor's opening remarks Keynote address: Climate adaptation Keynote address: Youth & Work Keynote address: COVID19

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