8 June, 2018
News & Announcements
- DFID’s (Chief Scientific Adviser) Charlotte Watt’s new blog looks at how research is helping farmers in Zimbabwe – Beauty and beans in Kwe-Kwe
- EPSRC tell us how Professor Tiziana Rossetto made a career out of engineering earthquakes – A Series of Disasters!
- DFID Scientists boost crop production by 47 percent by speeding up photorespiration – RIPE
- UN DESA contend there should be no trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection – un.org
- CEPR examine whether offering adolescent girls non-material resources can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country – cepr.org
Funding
- Academy of Medical Sciences – Global Challenges Research Fund Networking Grants Deadline 8 August
- R2HC/ELHRA – Call on improving health outcomes by strengthening the evidence base for public health interventions in humanitarian crises Deadline 17 July
- DFID – Operational Research on Access to Morbidity Management & Disability Prevention ServicesDeadline 30 August
- EPSRC – Strength in Places Fund call open Deadline 25 July
- BEIS – Newton Fund Researcher Links Travel Grants Deadline 11 June
- MRC – UK-Indonesia Joint Partnership on Infectious Diseases Deadline 24 July
- NERC – Peruvian Glacial Retreat and its Impact on Water Security & Resilience to Natural HazardsDeadline 9 August
- British Council – Newton Bhabha PhD Placement Programme Deadline 4 August
Events & Reports
- BOND Safeguarding Essentials course, 28 June in London
- TRUST Ethics Dumping – Looking for Justice event, 29 June at European Parliament
- EDCTP Clinical research and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: the impact of North-South partnerships forum, 17 – 21 September in Lisbon, Portugal
- UN Financing for SDGs Breaking the Bottlenecks of Investment high-level event, 11 June in New York, USA
- CENFRI Assessing the role of the insurance sector in property market development report
Other News & Interesting Links