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Dr Alexandre Kabla
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Cambridge Global Challenges Members
Cambridge Global Challenges Members overview
Dr Adam Branch
Adeline Klotz
Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig
Dr Ajith Kumar Parlikad
Professor Alan Blackwell (Director of Research)
Dr Alexander Patto
Dr Alexander Archibald
Dr Alexandre Kabla
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Professor Ashwin Seshia
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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
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Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes
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Dr Dai Morgan
Dan Storisteanu
Dr Darshil Shah
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Dr David Fairen-Jimenez
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Dr Dongfang Liang
Dr Dora Pereira
Dr Eiko Yoneki
Elisabeth Liddle
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Fung Sing Choi
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
Professor Koen Steemers (Advisory Board)
Dr Krishnaa Mahbubani
Dr Lara Allen (Director of Implementation and Impact)
Laura Carnicero
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 Sara Serradas Duarte
Dr Sarah Nouwen
Dr Shafiq Ahmed
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Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Advisory Board)
Dr Sohini Kar Narayan
Dr Tariq Masood
Dr Tim Forman
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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
Implementation Partners
Implementation Partners overview
Global challenges research at Cambridge
Global challenges research at Cambridge overview
Research Directory
Research Directory overview
Food systems and sustainable agriculture
Sustainable health and well-being
Education
Clean air, water and sanitation
Renewable energy and materials
Sustainable livelihoods
Climate change
Sustainable cities and communities
Refugee crises
Reduce conflict and promote peace
Poverty and inequality
Ongoing research projects
Ongoing research projects overview
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
Projects supported by the Seed-Funding Competition on Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship – First Year Projects
Showcasing events
Showcasing events overview
CGC Annual Conference 2018 [28th November 2018, St John's College]
CGC Round Table – Easter 2019 [Application deadline: 29th April; 3rd May 2019, 9.30-12.30)
CGC Round Table – Easter 2018 [29th June 2018, 2-5pm, Maxwell Centre]
CGC Round Table – Michaelmas 2017 [8th December 2017, Maxwell Centre]
Advancing Cambridge global challenges research
Advancing Cambridge global challenges research overview
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]
3) Obtain funding to enact jointly defined research priorities
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 facilitation processes, grant operational mechanisms and policy for ODA-remit work at University of Cambridge
Resources
Resources overview
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
Funding
Funding overview
News, Events and Other opportunities
News, Events and Other opportunities overview
Neuroscience and mental health
International Development Research @ Cambridge
Global challenges research at Cambridge
Research Directory
Food systems and sustainable agriculture
Sustainable health and well-being
Education
Clean air, water and sanitation
Renewable energy and materials
Sustainable livelihoods
Climate change
Sustainable cities and communities
Refugee crises
Reduce conflict and promote peace
Poverty and inequality
Ongoing research projects
Showcasing events
Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN)
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)
Autophagy and Neurodegeneration
Genetics of Learning Disability
Molecular Cell Biology of Axonal Degeneration
Understanding Mendelian Disorders of Neurodevelopment
Cambridge Neuroscience
Cambridge Prosociality and Well-being Lab
Centre for Family Research
New Families
Social and Cognitive Development and the Family
Centre for Music and Science
Department of Biochemistry
Lipid Profiling and Signalling
DNA and Chromatin Biology
Chemical Biology and Drug Design
Molecular Microbiology
RNA Biology
Signalling and Trafficking
Systems Biology
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology - Molecular Neuroscience Group
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair
Neurology Unit
Neurosurgery
Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre
Department of English - What Literature Knows About Your Brain
Department of History and Philosophy of Science - The Philosophy and Science of Well-being
Department of Paediatrics – Paediatric Neurology
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