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"The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) programme summaries for the CSSF programme summaries for Middle East and North Africa give details of:what support the UK is providing through the programmewhy UK support is neededthe different projects that make up a programme, who is implementing those projects and their budget for 2017 to 2018wha…

The four winning consortia, led by teams at the University of Bristol, the University of St. Andrews, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Glasgow, are the result of a raft of innovative development awards and workshops to improve capacity and collaboration in both the UK and partner countries.The AMR in a Global Context …

Postdoctoral researchers are the engine that power research in the biomedical sciences and are in a unique position to shape the future. It is the aim of the Borysiewicz Fellowships to provide career enhancement to support outstanding researchers seeking to shape the future for the betterment of society.Dr Paulo Amaral, Gurdon Institute: His resear…

Interests in machine learning research across the continent have increased in recent times and this must have resulted in the decision of the tech giant to designate Africa for one of its AI research centres.Events like Data Science Africa 2017 in Tanzania, the 2017 Deep Learning Indaba event in South Africa, and follow-on IndabaX events in 2018 in…

Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With price rises projected until 2040 and governments prevaricating or rowing back on the Paris Agreement, investor confidence is set to remain high.However, new research suggests that the momentum behind technological change in the global power and transportation sectors will lead to a dramat…

Sir Christopher Dobson, Master of St John's College and John Humphrey Plummer Prof of Chemical and Structural Biology received a knighthood for services to Science and Higher Education.While his work at the Department of Chemistry is best known for the investigation of the fundamental science underlying neurodegenerative disorder such as Alzheimer’…

"It’s a challenge to explain your latest results to a complete stranger, along with the background to your project and the biochemistry involved. And it’s crucial to keep relaying how these piecemeal experiments are important in moving towards your long-term research goals.It was an extremely rewarding experience hosting a non-specialist for the da…

Cholera is endemic in at least 47 countries, but it poses its greatest challenge in the form of explosive epidemics among vulnerable, at-risk populations in low-resource and inaccessible settings. Approaches to managing cholera epidemics have recently been revitalized and are increasingly being applied at scale. The influence of scientific evidence…

We know that global warming is taking place and its main cause is increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.The Paris climate agreement provides a rallying call to nations to limit carbon emissions and to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C above the pre-industrial period. This would significantly reduce the risks and impact of …

Currently many research staff do not receive the formal recognition they deserve for their contributions to writing grant applications, designing and carrying out funded research. By introducing the new status of researcher co-investigator, we are aiming to help provide them with the recognition needed for career progression.Initially, the new stat…

This project is led by Professor Sandra Fredman FBA, QC (hon). A report will be launched at the British Academy in the autumn of 2018.We are at a crucial moment at the start of the fifteen-year cycle to link the well-established human rights machinery with the UN development agenda. This British Academy report will examine how best human rights can…

Global human mobility has always been a part of human life. But in the past to be a refugee was a short-term consequence of conflict. Interventions aimed at ensuring a right to life for refugees in the short term too.The extreme numbers of people on the move now present us with new challenges. One of these is how to respond to the rise of  ‘protrac…

The UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends survey found 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world at the end of 2017, more people than the population of Thailand.Refugees who have fled their countries to escape conflict and persecution accounted for 25.4 million. This is 2.9 million more than in 2016, also the biggest …

Given that rainfall extremes disproportionately affect the poorest countries, with large-scale damage to crops, habitation and risks to human health through water- and vector-borne diseases, being able to forecast future precipitation scenarios is highly desirable in attempting to mitigate the effects of climate change.The Science article by A Pend…

The Horizon Europe programme will aim to strengthen the EU's scientific and technological base, foster the EU's competitiveness and its innovation performance, as well as deliver on the EU's strategic priorities and tackle global challenges.The total budget announced is €100 billion for 2021-2027, with €97.6 billion for Horizon Europe and €2.4 bill…