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WUN is committed to investing in research that makes a difference to the world. We bring the researchers and resources of our world leading member universities together to develop solutions that no one university or nation can solve alone. Our international, interdisciplinary research teams are collaborating with universities, research centres, civil society, government and industry to solve some of societies most vexing concerns.

Our Global Challenges are four identified research themes where WUN has particular capacity to develop solutions to issues of significant global concern. They form the key research pillars of WUN.

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Global Higher Education and Research

Community of Learning for African PhD Fellows (COLA)
Developing and Researching the Economics and Mathematics of Selection (DREAMS): Global Perspectives
Feasibility Study of Recommender Systems in Academia
Open WUN
Widening Participation: 'First in the Family' Students Succeeding in Universities
World-class Universities, Publication and Research Assessment: Rethinking the Mission of Higher Education in the Global Age

Public Health (Non-communicable Disease)

Air Sensors Everywhere
Collaborative Care for Dementia in Rural China Primary Care
Communicating Good Health and Wellbeing: Promotion, Advocacy and Resilience
DAPPER - Data Analysis with Privacy Protection for Epidemiological Research
Data Diplomacy: Political & Social Dimensions of Data Collection & Sharing
Dementia Prevalence and Impact in Low Income Areas in South Africa
Developing and Researching the Economics and Mathematics of Selection (DREAMS): Global Perspectives
Early Life Opportunities for the Prevention of Non-communicable Disease in Developing Countries
Effectiveness of health service/investment interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in health among older people in China: a longitudinal study
Global Initiative Promoting Meaningful Engagement of People with Advanced Dementia Ageing in Supported Living Environments
Health Literacy Network
Health Promoting Responses to Climate Change
Healthy Kitchens: Healthy Cities
Helminths and Allergy in South-Africa and Northern Europe
Hidden Voices: Exploring the health experiences of children who migrate
HOME - Health Outcomes of Migration Events
Immune Responses Underlying COPD Pathology
Impacts of Future Climate and Land Use Changes on Public Health and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
inVIVO Planetary Health (formerly in-FLAME - International Inflammation Network)
Lessons for Life: Innovating and Evaluating School Age Health Education Interventions for the Prevention and Control of NCDs
Migration Policy, Welfare Boundary, Social Integration & Health-related Quality of Life of Children from Immigrant Families
Mpower: Empowering mothers for health
Negotiating Transition to a ‘Grown Up World’: the Journey to Sexual and Reproductive Health for Unaccompanied Adolescent Asylum Seekers
OPERA - Optimal Pregnancy Environment Risk Assessment
Pedestrian Pathways in the Healthy City
Promoting wellbeing across borders: migration, social remittances and health
Provision of Health Service and Community Care for the Elderly: Intergenerational Roles and Equity
Reducing Inequality in Oral Health
Resilience in Youth and Service Providers
The Role of Big Data in Addressing the Determinants of Non-communicable Diseases in the Ageing Era
Schools as a Setting for Reducing Risk Factors for Non-communicable Diseases
Shaping Health Systems
67,000 More Helping Hands: An International Collaboration to Further Engage Pharmacists in Improving Primary Healthcare
Supporting Patients to Make Best Use of Their Medicines
Sustainable Care: Connecting People and Systems
Understanding Non-communicable/Communicable Disease Syndemics in Transitional Societies
Web Observatory Project

Responding to Climate Change

Adopting REDD+ for Conservation, Sustainable Community Livelihood and Climate Change Mitigation
Ancient Soils and Modern Land Use - A Challenge for Critical Zone Science
Building Sustainable Mountain Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing the Linkages Between Communities, Ecosystem Services, Environment and Health
Changing Coasts, Climate Change and Other Drivers
Climate Change: Understanding Systemic Shocks in Integrated Infrastructures
Critical Zones Observatories
CROP-FS - Climate-Resilient Open Partnership for Food Security
Developing Compatible Energy and Climate Strategies
Enhancing Food Security Through Urban Agriculture
Global Farm Platforms for Optimisation of Grazing Livestock Production Systems
Global Patterns of Climate Adaption in Kelps
Health Promoting Responses to Climate Change
Healthy Polis - Developing Urban Lifecourse Approaches in response to Climate Change
Himalayan Climate Change: Debris Covered Glacier Response, Water Availability, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Response
Impact of Climate Change on the Socio-Ecology of Animals: Effects on Epidemic Disease Spread and Species Invasion
Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Marine Fish Production
Impacts of Future Climate and Land Use Changes on Public Health and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
Impacts of Grain Legume Research & Development in Developing Countries
Indian Ocean Archaeology Network
Legumes: The Hub of Diversification & Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture
Managing the Globalization of Water Services in a World Affected by Climate Change: Regulatory and Economic Challenges
New insights into the transmission of Angiostrongylus lungworms by gastropods under climate change: a comparative approach
Non-market valuation of loss and damage under climate change
Ocean Eddies in a Changing Climate: Understanding the Impact on Coastal Climates and Worldwide Fisheries Production
Resilient Pasts and Sustainable Futures? Designing Socially Significant Scenarios
Spatial Framework for Assessing Environmental Livelihood Security
Stomata: Sensors of Climate Change
The trans-nationalisation of indigenous movements: The role of digital technologies
Transcultural Understanding of Designing with Climate Change: A Joint Design Research Studio Approach
Web Observatory Project
Wind or Solar? The Political Economy of Fuel Competition between Renewables

Understanding Cultures

An Intersectional Exploration of Religion and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of Accra in Global Context
Addressing Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity – Beyond “Management ” of Migration to an Integrated Rights-Based Approach
CARMEN (Co-operative for Advancement of Research through Medieval European Network)
China’s Growth Transition: Challenges and Global Adjustments
Data Diplomacy: Political & Social Dimensions of Data Collection & Sharing
Global Initiative Promoting Meaningful Engagement of People with Advanced Dementia Ageing in Supported Living Environments
Global Social Initiative on Ageing
Health Education Literacy and Mobility for Musicians: a global approach
Hidden Voices: Exploring the health experiences of children who migrate
In-Herit: The Role of Heritage in Ontological Security during Migration and Displacement
Indian Ocean Archaeology Network
Indigenous Research Network
Labor Market Outcomes Among Highly-Skilled Immigrants and Return Migrants: The Role of Place of Education
Migration Policy, Welfare Boundary, Social Integration & Health-related Quality of Life of Children from Immigrant Families
Migration With and Without Children: Causes and Economic, Social, and Psychological Consequences
Migration, Development and Global Transformations (MDGT)
Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Negotiating Transition to a ‘Grown Up World’: the Journey to Sexual and Reproductive Health for Unaccompanied Adolescent Asylum Seekers
Networking Young Citizens
Non-market valuation of loss and damage under climate change
Older Workers and Caregiving
Open WUN
Pedestrian Pathways in the Healthy City
Resilient Peace: Exploring resilient peacebuilding actors, cultures and policy transfer in West Africa
Romantic China: Cultural Relations between China and the West in the Later Qing Period, 1793-1850
Structural Reinforcement of Inequality
Sustainable Care: Connecting People and Systems
The trans-nationalisation of indigenous movements: The role of digital technologies
Transcultural Understanding of Designing with Climate Change: A Joint Design Research Studio Approach
Transformative Justice Network
Understanding Globalisation - Margins and Peripheries
Web Observatory Project

Other Research

Characterising the Transient Radio Sky with SKA Precursors
Spintronics Consortium

Special Interest Groups

Global Africa Group
Global China Group