Skip to main content

Bournemouth University

BU Research Blog

Latest research and knowledge exchange news at Bournemouth University

  • Home
  • RDS Team
    • Faculty-Facing Staff
    • Funding Development Team
    • Project Delivery Team
    • Research Excellence Team
    • RDS Governance Team
  • Clinical Governance @ BU
  • Research Ethics @ BU
  • REF
    • BU REF 2021 Code of Practice
    • Declaration of Staff Circumstances
    • BU’s Unit of Assessment Teams
    • REF FAQs
    • Archive – REF 2014
      • BU REF 2014 Code of Practice
      • REF 2014 Frequently Asked Questions
        • REF 2014 Overview
        • Staff eligibility
        • Mock REF 2014 (REF preparation) exercises at BU
        • REF 2014 Assessment of outputs
        • REF 2014 Staff selection
        • REF 2014 Equality and diversity
  • Impact
    • Partnerships & collaborations
    • Working with businesses
      • Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)
    • Communicating your research
    • Influencing policy makers
    • Public engagement
      • Quick guide to public engagement
    • Student engagement
      • Stages of engagement
      • Case study: Sean Beer
      • Case study: James Gavin
      • Case study: Anna Feigenbaum
  • Research Toolkit
  • Research Lifecycle
  • Policy
  • PGR
    • The Doctoral College Team

29 January 2018

BU coordinating Researcher Links workshop in South Africa on sustainable management of estuaries and coasts

Awarded & submitted bids lesteves

I can tell you, it was not easy, but I finally succeeded at securing funds from British Council to organise a Researcher Links workshop. This was a resubmission of an application that received good reviews in a previous round, but didn’t get funded. The feedback helped identifying where improvements were needed and we decided to submit it again. It also helped that I have already being to South  Africa delivering workshops to public sector practitioners on a similar subject – so I had a good idea about South Africa needs in terms of capacity building in this area. Researcher Links workshop grants are a great way of developing links with colleagues from selected partner countries and, at the same time, stimulating early career researchers to engage in international collaboration. Funds are available to support the attendance of early-career researchers based in South Africa and the UK and workshops aim to stimulate long-lasting partnerships and research collaboration between the two countries.

I’m very pleased to be able to organise one of these workshops in collaboration with colleagues from the UK (Hull and Ulster) and South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal and Oceanographic Research Institute). The workshop will be held on 19-21 June 2018  at the uShaka Marine World in Durban. The call for participants is now out and we invite early-career researchers from the social and natural sciences with research interests in the sustainable management of coasts and estuaries. You can find out more about the workshop and how to submit your application here.

Coastal and estuarine ecosystems worldwide are under pressure from population growth, urbanisation and other land-based and marine activities. In the UK and South Africa, coastal areas greatly contribute to the local and national economy by supporting key urban centres and industries. Climate change tends to exacerbate existing problems, including but not limited to flooding, erosion, water quality and resource availability, which can have implications on environmental quality, food production, water supply and human health. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has emerged as an integrated approach for the sustainable management of the trade-offs between socioeconomic development and nature conservation. EBM requires a transdisciplinary understanding of the natural system, nature-human interactions, and how they change through time. The workshop will bring together researchers from South Africa and the UK to discuss how they can collaborate to support EBM through the development of long-lasting UK-SA collaboration and government-research partnerships. The workshop aims to attract researchers from the social and natural sciences to create the required combination of expertise to co-construct, advance and share knowledge to support estuarine and coastal EBM. The integration of scientific and practical knowledge will be facilitated by the participation of NGOs and government practitioners.

Tags: Global engagement international collaboration knowledge exchange Newton Funds south africa

Related Posts

  • Opportunity for Early Career Researchers: Research capacity for sustainable ecosystem-based management of estuaries and coasts workshop21 February 2018
  • Coordinating a Newton Funds Researcher Links Workshop in South Africa was one of the most rewarding experiences23 July 2018
  • Call for Early Career Researchers to attend a workshop in Brazil on Ecosystem-based management of estuaries and coasts to support coastal adaptation1 April 2019
  • Congratulations to Dr James Gavin on his position at the British Council Researcher Links Workshop16 April 2018

BU staff can login below:

Other services

  • ProGRess logo

Don’t miss a post!

Subscribe for the BU Research Digest, delivered freshly every day.

Recent posts

BU research Funding opportunities EU
  • SERVED research project: Supporting Evidence-based Research for Veterans Experiencing Dementia8 May 2025
  • Alzheimer’s Awareness Week – join us in BGB on Tuesday 20th May8 May 2025
  • CWLTH Research Seminar7 May 2025
  • Nanocoatings to Bionanocomposites: Sustainable Solutions6 May 2025
  • Take part in the 2025 ESRC Festival of Social Science – Deadline for applications: Thursday 15 May 2025 6 May 2025
  • AI learning to read emotions from motion….6 May 2025
  • Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme pre-Published28 April 2025
  • This week – Konfer – an innovation and collaboration platform17 March 2025
  • MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 202510 March 2025
  • Horizon Europe info days 20257 March 2025
  • Last chance to apply for ECRN/RKEDF Funding. Closes 10th March27 February 2025
  • Recruiting Participants for International Students Project26 February 2025
  • European Migration Research and Impact – Invitation to a Roundtable Discussion16 April 2025
  • MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 202510 March 2025
  • Update on UKRO services13 February 2025
  • The ARTEMIS project consortium European research project exploring use of ‘virtual twins’ to better manage metabolic associated fatty liver disease4 February 2025
  • Horizon Europe funding – Weds 12th Feb21 January 2025
  • BU research to explore how artificial intelligence can help detect and investigate crime13 January 2025

Search by Category

Search by popular post topics

AHRC BU research clinical research CMMPH CMWH collaboration collaborative research conference congratulations Doctoral College Dr. Pramod Regmi Edwin-blog-post ESRC EU event Events funding funding opportunities Fusion Health horizon 2020 HSC impact innovation knowledge exchange media midwifery Nepal nhs NIHR open access Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen Prof. Vanora Hundley publication public engagement publishing ref research Research Councils research professional RKE development framework RKEDF social sciences training widening participation

RSS Research Information Network

  • Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery
  • Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case studies
  • Information literacy monitoring and evaluation
  • Data centres: their use, value and impact
  • Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications

RSS UKRI

Browse all our categories
  • Awarded & submitted bids
  • BRIAN
  • BU Challenges
  • BU research
  • BU2025
  • Business Engagement
  • Centre for Excellence in Learning
  • Clinical Governance
  • Coffee Morning
  • conferences
  • COVID-19
  • data management
  • Delicious links
  • Doctoral College
  • ECR Network
  • EPSRC
  • ESRC
  • EU
  • Events
  • Featured
  • Featured academics
  • Festival of Learning
  • Friday profile
  • Funding opportunities
  • Fusion
  • Fusion Investment Fund
  • Fusion themes
  • Global engagement
  • Grants Academy
  • Guidance
  • hate crime
  • HE-BCI
  • HEIF
  • HSS Our 9 Research Entities
  • humanities
  • Impact
  • Industry collaboration
  • Info Days
  • innovation
  • international
  • Knowledge Exchange
  • Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership
  • mrc
  • News from the PVC
  • NHS
  • nhs
  • open accecss
  • open access
  • parliament
  • Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
  • PG research
  • policy
  • Post-award
  • Postgraduate Research
  • pre-award
  • Public engagement
  • Publishing
  • R & KE Operations
  • REF Subjects
  • REF2029
  • Research assessment
  • Research Centres
  • Research communication
  • Research Concordat
  • Research Ethics
  • Research Ethics Panels
  • research governance
  • Research Integritiy
  • research integrity
  • research methods
  • Research news
  • research opportunities
  • research staff
  • Research Supervision
  • Research themes
  • Research Training
  • RKE development framework
  • staff profile pages
  • Strategic Investment Areas
  • Student Engagement
  • student research
  • the conversation
  • Training
  • UKRI
  • Uncategorized
  • Vitae
  • Women's Academic Network
  • writing
  • Twitter

© Bournemouth University 2025. All rights reserved.

  • Charitable status
  • Website privacy & cookies
  • Copyright and terms of use