Cambridge-Africa Day 2014
| Created: | 2014-11-11 15:06 |
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| Institution: | Department of Pathology |
| Description: | The first Cambridge-Africa Day took place on 30th October 2014 at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and was introduced by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge - Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. The day featured a wide range of short and very interesting presentations about Cambridge's involvement in research capacity building in African institutions, and the many mutually-beneficial collaborative research and development projects that Cambridge and African researchers and students are involved in. |
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a) Dame Fiona Reynolds (Master of Emmanuel College)
Welcome remarks
Collection: Cambridge-Africa Day 2014
Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Tue 11 Nov 2014
b) Dr Jennifer Barnes (Pro-Vice Chancellor for International Strategy, University of Cambridge)
Brief word
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Institution: Department of Pathology
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c) Professor David Dunne (Director of the Cambridge-Africa Programme)
Introduction to the Cambridge-Africa Programme
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Institution: Department of Pathology
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d) Professor Sheila Bird OBE (Experience of Mentoring a Ugandan THRiVE Fellow)
Brief introduction and overview of mentoring for THRiVE
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Institution: Department of Pathology
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e) Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge)
Keynote Address
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Tue 11 Nov 2014
f) Dr Jack Lang (Computer Laboratory and Judge Business School, Cambridge; Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge;...
Raspberry Pi in Africa
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Tue 11 Nov 2014
g) Professor Paul Alexander (Department of Physics, Cambridge)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in South Africa
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Institution: Department of Pathology
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h) Mr Patrick Hoffman (Co-founder of the Cambridge Development Initiative)
Student volunteering with a difference, in Tanzania
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Tue 11 Nov 2014
i) Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Director - Centre for Governance and Human Rights, Cambridge)
Africa’s Voices project
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Tue 11 Nov 2014
j) Professor Sir Brian Heap (Director of the Biosciences for Farming in Africa Programme; Advisor, ‘Smart Villages’...
Biosciences for Farming in Africa; Smart Villages Entrepreneurship
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Tue 11 Nov 2014
k) Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, KCMG, OBE (Founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET; alumnus of...
Brief word
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
l) Dr Theresa Manful (University of Ghana, Legon – CAPREx Fellow) and Professor Mark Carrington (Department of...
Collaborating on research into 'the epidemiology of lifetime infections with trypanosomes in individual cattle in Ghana'
Collection: Cambridge-Africa Day 2014
Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
m) Dr Kennedy Amone-P’Olak (THRiVE alumnus from Gulu University, Uganda; now at the University of Botswana).
Researching ‘The mental health consequences of a protracted and violent armed conflict on the youth in Northern Uganda’ and was mentored by Professor Peter Jones (Head, Department...
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
n) Dr Helen Nkabala Nambalirwa (Makerere University CAPREx Fellow) collaborating with Cambridge researchers Dr Emma...
Contesting scripture: re-reading violoent biblical texts with returning Lord's Resistance Army combatants in Acholi-Land
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
o) Professor Gordon Dougan (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Co-PI for the Wellcome Trust Cambridge-Centre for Global...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Africa
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
p) Dr Richard Osei-Amponsah (University of Ghana, Legon – CAPREx Fellow) and Dr Carole Sargent (Department of...
Collaborating on researching the ‘genetic diversity and genomic selection of the Ashanti dwarf pig of Ghana'
Collection: Cambridge-Africa Day 2014
Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
q) Professor Sir David Baulcombe, FRS (Head, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)
Engineering resistance to maize lethal necrosis: an emerging threat to food security in Africa
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014
r) Dr Pauline Essah (Coordinator of the Cambridge-Africa Programme and the WT-CCGHR, University of Cambridge)
Concluding Remarks
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Institution: Department of Pathology
Created: Thu 13 Nov 2014