18 May, 2018
News & Announcements
- UKRI launched its Strategic Prospectus, setting out plans to strengthen the UK’s world-leading knowledge economy and deliver impact across society – ukri.org
- ICAI published its review of DFID’s approach to disability in development – ICAI
- DFID funded support to help vaccinate over 450,000 people to prevent the spread of deadly cholera in Yemen – gov.uk
- DFID launched work with the government of DRC and World Health Organization following the confirmation of Ebola cases – gov.uk
- BBSRC announced the two winners of their Innovator of the year 2018 award – BBSRC
- DFID published its report of the Evaluation of Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) programme – gov.uk
Funding
- MRC-NSFC China-UK AMR Partnership Hubs 2018 Deadline 14 June
- ESRC Transnational organised crime: Deepening and broadening our understanding. Deadline 14 June
- EPSRC Joint UK-China Low Carbon Manufacturing Call Deadline 19 June
- MRC Cancer Research and Global Health Initiative. Deadline June 20th
- ESRC Trust and Global Governance Large Grants Deadline 28 June
Events & Reports
- British Council Researcher Links Workshop: Innovations in Agriculture and Food for Healthy Societies, 3-5 September in Shanghai, China
- AAS, GSK & Oxford Uni Science, technology and innovation for upskilling knowledge-based economies in Africa Webinar, 18 May
- Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2018, 8-12 October in Liverpool
- DFID New country briefs on youth demographics research
Other News & Interesting Links