Nurturing New Growth

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The Worldwide Universities Network helps new research groups get established by providing resources, contacts and advice. By helping to share talent across the different WUN members, we are able to encourage new research growth that will help address the challenges of tomorrow.

Research Groups

Arts and Humanities: CARMEN; Geographies of Power: Justice, Revolution, and the Cultural Imagination; Ideas and Universities; Indigenous Research Network; Internationalism and Cultural Exchange 1870-1920 (ICE); Medieval Plays in Modern Performance (2MP); Migration with and without children: Causes and economic, social, and psychological consequences; Performing China on the Global Stage; Romantic China: Cultural Relations between China and the West in the Later Qing Period, 1793-1850

Engineering: Adopting REDD+ for Conservation, Sustainable Community Livelihood and Climate Change Mitigation; Changing Coasts, Climate Change and Other Drivers; Eco-Hydrology; Ice Sheet and Climate Interaction: Implications for Coastal Engineering; Nanotechnology for Healthcare; The impact of climate change on the socio-ecology of animals: effects on epidemic disease spread and species invasion; WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium

Medicine, Dentistry and Health: Early Life Opportunities for the Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease in Developing Countries; Ensuring Sustainable and Responsible Production of Healthy Food from Healthy Animals; Global Health Justice Network; Global Public Health Justice: The Ethics of Research for Public Health; Healthy Kitchens: Healthy Cities; Immune responses underlying COPD pathology; iMOM - International Migration, Optimizing Maternal Health Research; Lessons for Life: innovating and evaluating school age health education interventions for the prevention and control of NCDs; Mathematics of non-communicable diseases: understanding failure of cell signalling; Media, tobacco, and trade: innovative approaches to reducing non-communicable disease in the Pacific region; Nanotechnology for Healthcare; Putting New Paradigms into Practice: Transatlantic Lessons in Population Health Improvement; Scoping Survey of Autism Care Resources: Social Integration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Support Systems; Shaping Health Systems; Supporting Patients to Make Best Use of Their Medicines; WUN Global Health Literacy Network; WUN International Inflammation Network (in-FLAME); WUN Oral Health Sciences

Science: ACCWA; Adopting REDD+ for Conservation, Sustainable Community Livelihood and Climate Change Mitigation; AEVO; Arctic Climate and Environments; Characterising space radiation and its impact on climate change; Characterising the transient radio sky with SKA precursors; Critical Zones & Soils Science; Ecosystem Services, Complexity and People; Freshwater ecosystems; Global patterns of climate adaption in kelps; Ice Sheet and Climate Interaction: Implications for Coastal Engineering; Impact of land use change on future water quality; Limits to Adaptation; Nanotechnology for Healthcare; NEOTOMA; Ocean Acidification; Resilient pasts and sustainable futures? The social-ecological dynamics of East African landscapes in temporal, spatial and social perspectives; Sea Level, Ice Sheets and Isostasy; The effect of climate change on indoor environmental quality; The impact of climate change on the socio-ecology of animals: effects on epidemic disease spread and species invasion; WUN Laboratory Blog Book; WUN Spintronics Consortium