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International Development Research @ Cambridge
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Professor Alan Blackwell (Co-Director)
Professor Pauline Rose (Co-Director)
Raheela Rehman (Research Centre Manager)
External Advisory Board
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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
Global challenges research at Cambridge overview
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
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
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
Funding
Funding overview
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
Cambridge College Studentships
News and Events
News and Events overview
News
Events
Events overview
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
COVID-19 in the Global South Symposium 2022
CGC Round Table 2019
CGC Annual Conference 2018
CGC Round Table 2018
CGC Round Table 2017
The Cambridge SDG Hub
Neuroscience and mental health
International Development Research @ Cambridge
Global challenges research at Cambridge
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Advancing Cambridge global challenges research
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The Cambridge SDG Hub
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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