Transformative research collaborations with Africa – starting with the UK
The Charter Initiative is concerned with the urgent need to work towards rebalancing the profoundly unfavourable positioning of Africa in the global science ecosystem – beginning with transforming the ways in which Africa-UK research collaborations are configured....
Development through data science for Somaliland
Jaap Velthuis writes... Somaliland is self-declared independent from Somalia: it has been autonomous since 1991 but is internationally unrecognised. It is democratic and has among the highest levels of poverty in the world. Somaliland’s government and industry have...
Toward a guiding framework for transforming research collaborations with Africa
The Association of African Universities, with some of Africa’s major research and higher education (HE) constituencies, including , the African Research Universities Alliance, the Inter-University Council for Eastern Africa, the Association of West African...
PARC’s early successes celebrated on FE News
The PARC team were delighted to be featured on FE News recently – in a piece celebrating two successful years since our launch. The team at FE News celebrated our great start, as we furthered our mission to disrupt the status quo that’s seen institutions and models...
Hyperspectral imaging and coral reefs
Jonathan Teague writes about his doctoral research project, funded by the Perivoli Foundation… In situ Hyperspectral imaging has the potential to provide a new tool for rapidly assessing coral ‘health’ on both the reefs scale and the colony scale. Visibly bleached...