Our Research
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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- The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of academics and students around the world
- WUN Health Humanities initiative: towards the development of the patient-centred and compassionate Health Professional through education
- Addressing the impact of heatwaves and drought on food security
- Big Data
- Challenges of Access and Equity: The Higher Education Curriculum Answers Back
- Community of Learning for African PhD Fellows (COLA)
- The WUN Data Science Network (WUN-DSN)
- !Gâ re – Rangatiratanga – Dadirri : Decolonizing the 'capture of knowledge'
- Developing and Researching the Economics and Mathematics of Selection (DREAMS): Global Perspectives
- Feasibility Study of Recommender Systems in Academia
- Global Regionalisms, Governance and Higher Education
- Health Literacy and Health Education Mobility for Musicians: a global approach
- Ideas and Universities
- Informing health resource allocation decisions: models of interdisciplinary research emphasising local engagement and policy impact
- Innovating the mathematics curriculum in times of change: towards local and global relevance
- Labor Market Outcomes Among Highly-Skilled Immigrants and Return Migrants: The Role of Place of Education
- Laboratory Trove
- Language Assessment Research Network
- Open WUN
- Pedestrian Pathways in the Healthy City
- Researching diversity, inclusion and student success: Towards a global campus climate framework
- A study of the role of governing boards in African higher education institutions
- Web Observatory Project
- 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
- The Worldwide Challenge of English
- A global platform to harmonize and share thigh-worn accelerometer data: Towards the next generation of sedentary behaviour, physical activity, and sleep guidelines
- Capability wellbeing and COVID-19: general population surveys in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands
- Climate-Induced Migration: Global Scope, Regional Impacts and National Policy Frameworks
- Memorials to people who have died and to those missing during migration: a global project
- Mental Health Impact and Access to Health and Social Care Services for Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
- Migrants’ Decision-Making in the Context of Shifting Migration Regimes: Highly Skilled Healthcare Professionals
- WUN Health Humanities initiative: towards the development of the patient-centred and compassionate Health Professional through education
- African Child and Youth Wellbeing in the Context of Migration and Displacement
- Air Sensors Everywhere
- Analyzing the Role of Urban Forms in Making Sustainable, Healthy Cities
- Big Data
- 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
- The WUN Data Science Network (WUN-DSN)
- Dementia Prevalence and Impact in Low Income Areas in South Africa
- Development of a Modified ddPCR Assay for Highly Accurate & Sensitive Detection of SARS-Cov-2 RNA for Screening of Infected Individuals & Environmental Monitoring
- 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
- Exploring the role of Helminths in the Global Allergy Epidemic
- Global Initiative Promoting Meaningful Engagement of People with Advanced Dementia Ageing in Supported Living Environments
- Global Research Network on the Economic Empowerment of Women (ReNEW)
- Health Literacy and Health Education Mobility for Musicians: a global approach
- Health Literacy Network
- Health Promoting Responses to Climate Change
- Healthy Kitchens: Healthy Cities
- 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
- Informing health resource allocation decisions: models of interdisciplinary research emphasising local engagement and policy impact
- Integrating Health & Social Care Services to Tackle Asia’s Ageing Population & Rise in Chronic & Multi- Morbidity: Global Developments & Lessons
- inVIVO Planetary Health (formerly in-FLAME - International Inflammation Network)
- Isolation-Care Tele-Robotic System and its Efficient Utilization for the Prevention of Nosocomial Infection of the COVID-19
- Laboratory Trove
- Lessons for Life: Innovating and Evaluating School Age Health Education Interventions for the Prevention and Control of NCDs
- Low-Carbon Transport, Individual Wellbeing & Planetary Health in the Era of Smart Cities & New Mobilities
- The intersection between migration and health in later life in a cross-border context: a comparative study in Taiwan, England and oceanic countries.
- 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
- New insights into the transmission of Angiostrongylus lungworms by gastropods under climate change: a comparative approach
- On the Search for Potential Trypanocidal Compounds: Synthesis and Evaluation of new Drug Candidates
- OPERA - Optimal Pregnancy Environment Risk Assessment
- Oral Health Science Network
- 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
- (Re)negotiating power to enhance resilience to climate change
- A Cross-National Study of Urban Solid Waste Management: Learnings and Way Forward
- Climate-Induced Migration: Global Scope, Regional Impacts and National Policy Frameworks
- Smallholder Dairy Cooperatives in Addressing Sustainable Development Goals in ODA Countries
- Addressing the impact of heatwaves and drought on food security
- Adopting REDD+ for Conservation, Sustainable Community Livelihood and Climate Change Mitigation
- Ancient Soils and Modern Land Use - A Challenge for Critical Zone Science
- Big Data
- 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
- Climate Resilient African Landscapes
- Critical Zones Observatories
- CROP-FS - Climate-Resilient Open Partnership for Food Security
- The WUN Data Science Network (WUN-DSN)
- Developing Compatible Energy and Climate Strategies
- Enhancing Food Security Through Urban Agriculture
- Environmental and social consequences of decommissioning offshore infrastructure
- Establishing the Low Carbon Energy Transition in a Changing Climate Network
- 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
- Legal Cultures and New Regional Policies towards Forced Migrants
- Legumes: The Hub of Diversification & Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture
- Low-Carbon Transport, Individual Wellbeing & Planetary Health in the Era of Smart Cities & New Mobilities
- Modelling Microplastic Waste Transport in Rivers and the Coastal Oceans
- 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
- Pedestrian Pathways in the Healthy City
- Resilient Pasts and Sustainable Futures? Designing Socially Significant Scenarios
- Spatial Framework for Assessing Environmental Livelihood Security
- Stomata: Sensors of Climate Change
- Sustainability and Electricity Access in Developing Countries
- 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
- (Re)negotiating power to enhance resilience to climate change
- A Cross-National Study of Urban Solid Waste Management: Learnings and Way Forward
- An Intersectional Exploration of Religion and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of Accra in Global Context
- Climate-Induced Migration: Global Scope, Regional Impacts and National Policy Frameworks
- Memorials to people who have died and to those missing during migration: a global project
- Mental Health Impact and Access to Health and Social Care Services for Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
- Migrants’ Decision-Making in the Context of Shifting Migration Regimes: Highly Skilled Healthcare Professionals
- Understanding Evidence pathways and government decision-making in response to Covid-19: a multi-country comparative analysis
- WUN Health Humanities initiative: towards the development of the patient-centred and compassionate Health Professional through education
- Addressing Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity – Beyond “Management ” of Migration to an Integrated Rights-Based Approach
- African Child and Youth Wellbeing in the Context of Migration and Displacement
- Big Data
- CARMEN (Co-operative for Advancement of Research through Medieval European Network)
- China’s Growth Transition: Challenges and Global Adjustments
- COVID-19 and Migration Systems in Transition
- Data Diplomacy: Political & Social Dimensions of Data Collection & Sharing
- The WUN Data Science Network (WUN-DSN)
- !Gâ re – Rangatiratanga – Dadirri : Decolonizing the 'capture of knowledge'
- Environmental and social consequences of decommissioning offshore infrastructure
- Establishing the Low Carbon Energy Transition in a Changing Climate Network
- Gendering Migration: Women and Girls Experiences of Gender-based discrimination, abuse and violence across migratory stages
- Global Initiative Promoting Meaningful Engagement of People with Advanced Dementia Ageing in Supported Living Environments
- Global Regionalisms, Governance and Higher Education
- Global Social Initiative on Ageing
- Health Literacy and Health Education Mobility for Musicians: a global approach
- Hidden Voices: Exploring the health experiences of children who migrate
- Impacts of Future Climate and Land Use Changes on Public Health and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
- In-Herit: The Role of Heritage in Ontological Security during Migration and Displacement
- Indian Ocean Archaeology Network
- Indigenous Research Network
- Intercultural Communication in Interaction: multimodal approaches
- Labor Market Outcomes Among Highly-Skilled Immigrants and Return Migrants: The Role of Place of Education
- Language Assessment Research Network
- Legal Cultures and New Regional Policies towards Forced Migrants
- Marriage Migrants in Asia
- Migration, Development and Global Transformations (MDGT)
- Migration Policy, Welfare Boundary, Social Integration & Health-related Quality of Life of Children from Immigrant Families
- 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
- Resilience in Youth and Service Providers
- Resilient Peace: Exploring resilient peacebuilding actors, cultures and policy transfer in West Africa
- 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
- Women’s Mobility: Negotiating Work and Family Spheres in Asia