universitIES

Bournemouth University 

 

Bournemouth University's international activities are clustered under its GlobalBU initiative coordinated by the Global Engagement Team. This brings together representatives from Faculties, and Professional Services teams covering International Student Recruitment, International Partnerships, Student and Staff Mobility, and Alumni. 

 

It has links with academic institutions abroad, these being mainly in Europe and the Far East. 

 

Its Research Blog highlights Bournemouth's research in Low and Middle Income Countries, particularly Nepal. 

 

For more information, contact globalbu@bournemouth.ac.uk. 

 

 

University of Portsmouth 

 

The University has two centres of importance related to global health

 

• The Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population and Policy 
• The Centre for Blue Governance

 

The Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre is a collaboration between the University of Portsmouth and the University of Brawijaya in Malang, Indonesia. Its key mission  is to improve the health and well-being of people globally through research, teaching and training. This includes postgraduate training and continuing professional development for practising researchers.

 

The Centre for Blue Governance focuses on work related to securing the future of the planet's marine and freshwaters. Its overall objective is multidisciplinary collaboration to contribute to the design, setting-up and implementation of blue growth in countries, regions and political entities. It has five themes 

 

• Blue policies, planning and security
• Blue energy, technologies and transport solutions
• Biodiversity, blue carbon and climate change
• Aquatice resources management
• Blue economy, human rights and labour

 

For more information contact Louisa Wood at louisa.wood@port.ac.uk 

 

 

University of Southampton

 

Southampton has a wide range of global health related research carried out by different departments.

 

Its Global Health Community of Practice is an open forum to support all members working across global health in either research, education or knowledge exchange, and innovation. It provides a space to share information, raise options for discussion, create bi-directional connections between the University of Southampton and low- and middle-income country partners and to support the University in having greater global health impact.

 

To find out more, e-mail ghcop-info@soton.ac.uk 

 

 

University of Winchester  

 

The Winchester Centre for Global Health is a hub of academics and researchers working together to contribute to the University’s aim to tackle global challenges through its research-related activity and teaching, by addressing ‘the most urgent problems facing humankind’, as set out in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. 

Centre members collaborate with health practitioners, employers, policy makers and academics to improve the understanding and knowledge of and participation in global health practice, mainly, though not exclusively, in low- and middle-income countries.

 

Its main areas of focus are 

 

• Exploration of the scope, importantce and nature of practice in global health
• Collaboration in and support of networks, the participants of which are engaged in or have oversight of global health activities, in low- and middle-income countries
• Creation of robust methodologies for the evaluation of the impact of global health sustainable projects

 

For more informaton contact Rachel Locke at rachel.locke@winchester.ac.uk