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Read more at: British Academy launches Working Together project: Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

British Academy launches Working Together project: Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

20 June 2018

A programme of activities under the banner of Justice, Rights & Equality, which seeks to develop new understanding of the tensions at the interface between global norms and local attempts to realise those goals.


Read more at: The Place of prosperity in protracted refugee crises, by A. Andersen

The Place of prosperity in protracted refugee crises, by A. Andersen

19 June 2018

Today one in every 122 people on the planet is now either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum. Movement, it seems, is the new normal. So how do you improve the quality of life for people in an ongoing climate of crisis?


Read more at: UNHCR publishes its annual Global Trends Survey ahead of World Refugee Day

UNHCR publishes its annual Global Trends Survey ahead of World Refugee Day

19 June 2018

Forced displacement at record 68.5 million: UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report shows an average of one person was displaced every two seconds in 2017, with developing countries most affected.


Read more at: 'What precipitation is extreme?' (A G. Pendergrass; Science, Issue 6393, 8 June 2018)

'What precipitation is extreme?' (A G. Pendergrass; Science, Issue 6393, 8 June 2018)

8 June 2018

A contribution to the science of climate change modelling: analysing the relationship between atmospheric moisture increase and rainfall extremes.


Read more at: Successor Framework Programme to Horizon 2020 announced

Successor Framework Programme to Horizon 2020 announced

8 June 2018

The European Commission has published its proposal for the next Framework Programme (and the successor to Horizon 2020), Horizon Europe.


Read more at: Trade and the Commonwealth: developing countries examined by Commons

Trade and the Commonwealth: developing countries examined by Commons

5 June 2018

The International Trade Committee takes evidence from textile-industry representatives, and development organisations, in the latest session of its Trade and the Commonwealth: developing countries inquiry.


Read more at: Commons Select Committee on International Development criticises focus of cross-government UK Prosperity Fund aid

Commons Select Committee on International Development criticises focus of cross-government UK Prosperity Fund aid

5 June 2018

Lack of coherence and transparency of UK cross-government aid leads to insufficient focus on the poorest, according to MPs, and ignores expertise accumulated by the Department for International Development (DFID).


Read more at: MPhil in Biotechnology launched at University of Cambridge

MPhil in Biotechnology launched at University of Cambridge

1 June 2018

The MPhil in Biotechnology is a newly launched (2018) programme at the University of Cambridge, for which world-leading academics and industry champions are coming together to deliver an in-depth multidisciplinary curriculum. The programme has its emphasis on bringing in analytical skills from an engineering, physics, mathematics and computer sciences background into the biological sciences in response to major talent needs in biotechnology fields.


Read more at: Department for Health & Social Care and Gates Foundation announced £30 million of funding for the global fight against antimicrobial resistance

Department for Health & Social Care and Gates Foundation announced £30 million of funding for the global fight against antimicrobial resistance

31 May 2018

The funding will be delivered via four new projects as part of the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF).


Read more at: TIGR2ESS Research Associate Vacancy (deadline: 13th June 2018)

TIGR2ESS Research Associate Vacancy (deadline: 13th June 2018)

31 May 2018

Vacancy for a full time Research Associate to work as part of a major new project exploring agricultural transformations and societal needs in India. The post holder will work under the supervision of Professor Bhaskar Vira in the Department of Geography.


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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Learn about the support we provide 

Learn how Cambridge Global Challenges can support your research here.

 

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