Partners

Core partners

Our research project strategy for the next two years will feature five major projects linked to regional hubs and core partners in China, India, Kenya and Argentina.

These five projects are now in a planning phase and confirmation of our core partners for each will be made in late 2007.

Affiliated projects

STEPS has a number of affiliated research projects, programmes and activities that have significant links with, or overlaps with, at least one STEPS theme and one domain. STEPS iteself is also a partner for other research groups. Find out more

Other partnerships and networks

Meanwhile, STEPS has been busy creating a number of national and international partnership, network and co-funding arrangements. During the next year these will expand and consolidate, as we develop and take forward our project work in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They include:

• A successful proposal to the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), 'Risk and Regulation: Science and Technology in a Globalised Economy', in collaboration with the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore;

• Representation at the Forum for Sustainability Science Roundtable (17 Feb 07) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Francisco, becoming part of an emerging network of university-based programmes in this area

• Commencement of a joint ESRC-funded seminar series with Practical Action, Lancaster and Durham universities and international collaboration on ‘Delivering public value from new technologies’

• Invitation from the policy think-tank Demos to be a partner in the next phase of their 'Atlas of Ideas' project on new global geographies of science, with details under discussion

• Co-development, with DFID funding, of the Development Studies Association 2007 conference on the theme of 'Connecting Science, Society and Development', linked with the first STEPS annual symposium on 18-20 September 2007

• Submission of a proposal to the NERC-ESRC transdisciplinary seminar series on ‘Beyond the disciplines: fostering dialogue and shared understanding around ecosystem services’

• Co-host of the ESRC Science in Society programme's globalisation theme launch, 23 April 2007

• An international workshop co-organised by UNESCO on science, technology and development in autumn 2007

• Co-submission, with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, of a workshop proposal to the Wellcome Trust on 'Changing states of science in Africa'.

 

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