BU Research Blog

The British Council have a number of research workshops available to ECRs to attend under Researcher Links and the Newton Fund.  The workshops give researchers the opportunity to form new international connections.

If you are an early-career researcher based in the UK or the partner country you can apply for a grant to participate.

Current opportunities are:

Is Poverty a By-Product or a Building Block of Prosperity? Trends in Economic Development from Brazil and the United Kingdom

• Date of workshop: 21-24 August 2017
• Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• Application deadline: 1 May 2017, 12 noon UK time.
• Programme: Newton Fund Researcher Links
• For further information, elegibility criteria and application form please contact the workshop organiser.

Information and Communications Technologies in Homes and Cities for the Health and Well-Being of Older People (ICT4HOP’17) 

• Date of workshop: 14-16 August 2017
• Location: Bradford, UK
• Application deadline: 20 May 2017
• Programme: Newton Fund Researcher Links
• Eligibility and further information can be found here.

Geological Disaster Monitoring Based on Sensor Networks

• Date of workshop: 14-17 July 2017
• Location: Harbin, China
• Application deadline: 14 April 2017
• Programme: Newton Fund Researcher Links
• Eligibility and further information can be found here .

Socially Inclusive WM&RE in Supply Chains Workshop

• Date of workshop: 23-25 May 2017
• Location: Florianópolis, Brazil
•  Application deadline: 23 February 2017
• Programme: Newton Fund Researcher Links
• Eligibility and further information can be found here .

Re-naturing Cities: Theories, Strategies and Methodologies

• Date of workshop: 10-13 July 2017
• Location: Goiânia, Brazil
•  Application deadline: 23 April 2017
• Programme: Newton Fund Researcher Links
• Eligibility and further information can be found here.