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Oct 24, 2022

How to use and manage the problematic brown algae that are washing up on the shores across the tropical Atlantic?

Did you know that vast rafts of holopelagic sargassum (brown algae) – some the size of 200 adjoining football pitches – seasonally wash ashore and...
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Oct 14, 2022

Creating and curating practical knowledge with traditional health practitioners & Indigenous knowledge holders

The African Child and Youth Migration Network, based in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Nursing, is hosting a free, virtual workshop on Frid...
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Oct 05, 2022

Students invited to submit a video testimonial for COP27 Climate Change Conference

WUN will be participating in the COP27 Climate Change Conference in November 2022 through our participation in a side event “Universities as k...
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Oct 04, 2022

The UK National Health Service’s migration infrastructure in times of Brexit and COVID-19: Disjunctures, continuities and innovations

Photo by Rusty Watson on Unsplash This new paper, published in International Migration, is looking at ‘migration infrastructures’ in the UK Nation...
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Sep 30, 2022

WUN Workshop “Smart Biosolar Microgrids for Sustainable Communities”

Photo by Biel Morro on Unsplash The WUN research consortium ‘Smart biosolar microgrids for sustainable communities’ held its first workshop from 2...
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Sep 26, 2022

Workshop – Design & Development of appropriate MedTech products in West and East Africa

The WUN research consortium The design and development of appropriate MedTech products for in-country use: a regional comparison of West and East Afri...
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Sep 06, 2022

Equity and the financial costs of informal caregiving in palliative care: a critical debate

The WUN-supported research collaboration ” The economic costs of family caregiving within a palliative care context” responded to an issue...
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Sep 06, 2022

From agency to root causes: addressing structural barriers to transformative justice in transitional and post-conflict settings

Photo by Clay Banks via UnSplash Transformative justice has emerged as a new practice agenda for addressing structural and systemic violence in post-c...
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Sep 01, 2022

The New African Urban University (NAUU) workshop synthesis report

The WUN research consortium “The New African Urban University: Building partnerships to realise the promise and potential of sustainable urban t...