Results of the WUN Research Development Fund 2024 Round
WUN is pleased to announce the results of the Research Development Fund (RDF) 2024 round. These awards mark a direct investment of £200,000 in international collaborative research among WUN member universities. WUN’s capacity to assemble teams of researchers representative of the diversity of the network confers a distinctive advantage in tackling major research challenges, especially in areas […]
Climate Litigation and Vulnerabilities: Global South Perspectives
A new book on climate litigation and vulnerabilities, which builds on a WUN research project, will be published by Routledge in 2025. In October 2024, co-editors Melanie Murcott (Associate Professor of Law at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town), Maria Antonia Tigre (Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the […]
WUN ECR reflects on leading first international collaboration
Dr Alecia Ndlovu is Principal Investigator for a WUN project awarded in 2021 that[1] researches the roles politics and institutions play in ensuring revenues from mining support development in Africa. The project employed a mixed-method approach, integrating cross-country statistical analysis with fieldwork in two resource-rich democracies, Ghana and South Africa. The project team, consisting of […]
WUN Early Career Researcher Webinar
Register for the next webinar in WUN’s Early Career Researchers series, ‘Building Research Teams’. The session will look at skills for building research teams — from co-investigators, post-graduate assistants and postdocs, to technicians and pooled staff. The session will focus on how to pull together the right people, and strategies for the effective leadership of […]
WUN welcomes University of Tsukuba to the network
We are delighted to announce that University of Tsukuba has joined the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN). We welcome President Kyosuke NAGATA and colleagues to the WUN Board, research teams, and programs. University of Tsukuba was established in 1973 with an aim to enable an open and new system of education and research in Japan. A […]
A look back at WUN AGM 2024
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WUN Research Development Fund 2024
WUN is pleased to announce that the Research Development Fund (RDF) 2024 round is now open. In its sixteenth year, the RDF provides researchers at member universities with grants of up to £10,000 to foster research collaborations across the network. WUN Research Development Fund 2024 Since 2009 the WUN Research Development Fund (RDF) has directly […]
ARUA and WUN to forge equitable research partnership
This article was published by University World News, written by Desmond Thompson. The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), jointly representing nearly 50 leading universities on six continents, are moving closer to each other. The two organisations each held their own annual meetings in South Africa last week, but came […]
WUN Annual General Meeting 2024
The WUN AGM 2024 website is now open. On the AGM website you can: Register for the conference Book your accommodation at the official conference hotel Consult the draft program Find important travel and transportation information Learn more about our host university and city The WUN Annual General Meeting is the central event in the WUN […]
Virtual Workshop on Net Zero and Sustainable Cities
Location: Onsite at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University (Salaya Campus), Thailand, and Online via Zoom. Next Sessions: Dates and Sessions: Session 1: On January 29, 2024. Time: 17:00 – 19:00 hrs. Session 2: On January 30, 2024. Time: 17:00 – 18:30 hrs. Session 3: On February 2, 2024. Time: 17:00 – 19:00 hrs. Register […]
