Global Engagement
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Strategic partners
We have strategic partnerships with institutions across China, Germany and South Africa to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals, solve global challenges, and reduce inequality.
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Education opportunities
We partner with institutions around the world to deliver joint teaching and collaborative awards in a wide range of subject areas.
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Creating a drought to predict the Amazon 'tipping point'
An international research project in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is underway, exploring the effects of extreme drought to identify how to protect forests in the face of climate change.
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Turning a pest into an opportunity
Research in Uganda is exploring how an invasive species of water plant can be turned into biogas for cooking.
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Forging collaboration through snow and ice
Next year, a team of scientists from Nepal, the UK and Norway will head to the notorious Khumbu Icefall, to drill into and take the temperature of the glacier at over 6000m altitude.
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Corals, communities and climate change
An international research project is examining which coral reefs are proving more resilient than others to the effects of a warmer and more acidic ocean caused by climate change.
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Vulnerable but resilient: Indigenous communities facing COVID-19
How indigenous populations were affected by, and responded to, COVID-19
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Keyhole surgery technology and training to reduce inequalities in healthcare
A team of surgeons, engineers and designers have designed a technology to make it easier to carry out abdominal keyhole surgery in remote and low resource locations.
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Sowing seeds of hope for Amazon conservation
Commerce and climate change have decimated 17% of the rainforest over the last 50 years - but communities are building it back from the soil upwards.
