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Law and Violence in the Middle Ages

Violence has been a subject of much lively recent debate among medieval historians. The current project seeks to develop this debate in a new direction: how law was used to control violence among two of the ‘three orders (ordines)’ of medieval society, the warrior class (bellatores) and the...

Global Health Justice Network

We aim is to establish a network of scholars with an expertise in issues of global health justice and to hold regular workshops on various topics of interest within this broad field. We seek to foster international academic collaboration and to provide a resource for national and global...

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2MP - Medieval Plays in Modern Performance

The project aims of Medieval Plays in Modern Performance are to: encourage holders of collections in the field to make secure provision for the on-going custody of materials in their care; to undertake a scoping and mapping exercise of all materials relating to twentieth-century productions of...

Arctic Climates and Environments (ACE) website

1ACE aims to understand natural and anthropogenic changes in the biosphere and climate of the Arctic and northern circumpolar regions, using a combination of modelling tools and observations, which draw on expertise, data, equipment and infrastructure uniquely available at the WUN nodes.

Biological Weathering in Earth Systems website

An international scientific effort to quantify and predict the processes of soil formation and loss.

Children, Youth and Families

This federal research and training network of WUN partners has interests in a range of inter-related themes under the broad heading of Children, Youth and Families.

Cognitive Communications

Cognitive communications promises to revolutionise the way wireless communication devices and networks behave through 'intelligent' assignment of resources and operation.

Critical Global Poverty Studies

This initiative explores a series of questions that utilize innovative approaches to understanding and acting on poverty in a global frame.

Critical Zone & Soil Science Consortium website

Weathering is the environmental process by which the earth's bedrock is broken down to create soil. This is crucial to the long-term\sustainability of soil which is under threat from environmental change and human pressures from food production and expanding\cities. This site links key...

Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes

The aim is to foster understanding and collaboration amongst researchers and scientists working in this field across WUN institutions.

Our research involves field interpretation of geological deposits, process measurements, laboratory experimentation and theoretical analyses.

eLearning Seminar Series website

Establishing a theoretical and methodological foundation for research into e-communities of enquiry in higher education.

Gender Studies Group

The WUN Gender Studies Group brings together research institutions from around the world that specialise in gender studies. The consortium aims to promote a global research culture through collaborative academic activity, encourage gender-related teaching and research, and cultivate a dynamic...

Global Enterprise

WUN Global Enterprise is a pioneering platform that provides a connection point to identify issues, stimulate initiatives and motivate leaders to deliver enterprise skills and practices in global business and social environments, to expand the impact and effectiveness of entrepreneurship in...

Global Geographical Information Systems Academy website

A consortium to develop reasearch and teaching interests in geographic information science.

Global Planning Educators Interest Group

Work together as planning educators and students to create, integrate and share global perspectives in planning education and research.

Globalization of Education (Creating Knowledge Spaces) website

The globalization of higher education and research has become a high profile issue at a range of scales. Vigorous debates are underway about issues from the implications for education of the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), to trans-Atlantic competition for...

Green Chemistry Website

The Green Chemistry Partnership aims to bring together multidisciplinary expertise from around the world facilitating breakthrough collaborative research of global significance, sharing of ideas and generally working together towards common goals.

As part of our activities we now have...

Horizons - global futures of higher education

A series of six seminars looking at the construction of knowledge spaces and the global futures of higher education.

Seminars take place on Tuedays from February 2006 through March at the following local times:

UIUC and UW-Madison: 11 am
UK: 4pm

Horizons in Earth Systems Science Seminars

This year's series is the third annual running of this event and takes as its theme 'Climate Change Science: Towards an Earth System Context'.

Horizons in Human Geography website

An international series of virtual seminars looking at recent debates and developments in human geography.

Horizons in Social Policy and Social Work website

The Work, Caring & Policy: International Perspectives series, aims to explore how the challenge of managing care and employment is addressed through policy responses.

Human Origins Seminar Series

A series of seminars on Human Origins.

The theme of the first series is: Sites, Stones, Biology & Bones: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Evolution.

Ideas & Universities

The Ideas & Universities initiative aims to explore the way in which ideas have found institutional expression in universities from the emergence of the earliest European universities in the late 12c to now.

International Center for Study of Terrorism

The International Center for the Study of Terrorism is multidisciplinary in its approach. The Center is built around a core of WUN member universities and uses the capabilities of this network to enhance collaboration and communication on a global basis; research groups from a number of...

International Comparative Criminal Justice Network

This research network combines WUN and non-WUN partners with interests in a range of inter-related themes that coalesce around the internationalisation of crime control, by exploring questions of comparison (both convergences and divergences) in the development of policy, norms and institutional...

International Network in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

The network is characterised by a multi- and inter-disciplinary ethos, encompassing all disciplines from across the arts and humanities, including: History / English / Modern Languages and Cultures / African Studies and Afro-American Studies / Art History / Music / Theology and Religious...

Lusophone Postcolonial Research Network

The international Lusophone Postcolonial Research Network coordinates, develops, and promotes research and teaching activities centered on colonial and postcolonial issues involving Lusophone countries and their historical areas of influence. The Network brings together scholars and students from...

Medieval Studies website

Medieval Studies is a thriving cross-disciplinary eHumanities group built around four broad themes:

The Medieval Garden
Multilingualism
The Medieval Book
Emergence of the State

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages

A series of seminars focussing on the cultural consequences and manifestations of multilingualism in the medieval west.

Areas for study include the purposes and effects of “code switching”, the functional and territorial distribution of languages, multilingual writings and manuscripts,...

Nanomanufacturing website

The challenge of the discovery and practical economic routes to manufacture for consumer materials using advanced nanomanufacturing methods provides one of the new grand challenges for the WUN advanced materials network.

The consumer industries concerned cover a wide range of sectors...

Networking Young Citizens

This Worldwide Universities Network Study Group provides the opportunity for coordinated research and exchange of knowledge among an international community of academics, practitioners and policy-makers dedicated to understanding and developing civic engagement and learning in youth online...

New Directions in Ancient Biomolecules

Biomolecular Archaeology involves biochemical analysis of DNA and other molecules preserved in archaeological remains and living organisms to answer questions about the human past.

It is a relatively recent field of interdisciplinary study including Archaeology, Chemistry,...

pACE

A "deep-time" perspective for understanding ongoing environmental changes in the Arctic.

Realising the Global University Conference

This conference will drill down through the rhetoric around globalisation and enable universities to chart a course through the increasingly rapid change the next ten years will bring. Thursday 15th November, Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, London

Realizing the Global University

This site provides information about the Critical Perspectives Workshop on November 14 and the Conference on November 15th.

Researching contemporary cities - postgraduate e-conference

The RCC e-conference is designed by, and for, postgraduate students. It will provide a platform for postgraduate students interested in urban governance, neoliberalisation, labour studies, urban social movements, urban geography, urban regeneration, and urban political economy in general, to...

South Asian Studies

A series of six videoseminars on South Asia.

Spintronics Website

Spintronics has been recognized as one of the demanding area of research which could provide a major break through in technologies involving conventional electronics.

A grand challenge project has been undertaken headed by University of York with the support from WUN to bring the...

Transnational Societies Project

Examining the multiple ties and interactions that link people, institutions, and cultures across the borders of nation-states.

Virtual Landscapes website

Creating virtual landscapes to allow users to do physically impossible tasks such as fly and/or teleport to aspects of the landscape.

Wireless Communications website

By combining the global expertise and resources of WUN partners, the Group aims to develop next generation technologies for wireless communications.

WUN Contemporary China Center

The WUN Contemporary China Center is a collaborative framework to support a global community of faculty and graduate students working together across centers of excellence around the world. It is based on, but not exclusive to, the Worldwide Universities Network and has as its partners in China...