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Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professorships Showcase 

10-13 May 2021 (online) 

The International Research Partnerships team organised a series of talks showcasing some of our Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professors and their University of Bristol hosts. A wide range of scholarly fields were represented and researchers beamed in from different corners of the world to give their presentations.

Former BBMDVPs and their hosts presented their research projects and discussed their ongoing collaborations and the impacts that have been achieved, as well as their experience of the scheme and their stay in Bristol.

This Showcase was part of the virtual Festival of International Research and Partnerships which took place from 19 April – 19 May 2021.

Below you can find recordings and information about the events that took place:

Downloadable table version of BBMDVP Showcase events

To access the recordings, please click on the event's name

• Welcome and Introduction to the BBMDVP Showcase

  • Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost Professor Judith Squires and the International Research Partnerships (IRP) team (Dr. Lauren Winch, IRP Manager and Samantha Barlow, IRP Officer)
    
    
• Manufacturing processes for sustainable composite materials of the future
  • Dr Arthur Levy, Université de Nantes, France
  • Dr James Kratz, Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol (host)
    
    

• Women and Leadership in Fifteenth-Century English Prose Romance

  • Dr Jan Shaw, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Helen Fulton, English, University of Bristol (host)
    
    
• Using maths, physics, and chemistry to save our planet
  • Professor Kieron Burke, University of California Irvine, USA
  • Professor Robert Evans, Physics, University of Bristol (host)
    
    
• Migrant Dramaturgies - Trajectories of Collaboration
  • Dr Szabolcs Musca, University of Lisbon, Portugal 
  • Dr Katja Krebs, Theatre, University of Bristol (host)
    
    
• Earth, metals and our future
  • Dr John F H Thompson, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Cornell University, USA
  • Dr Alison Rust, Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (host)
    
    
• Sex differences in cardiovascular regulation – vive la difference!
  • Professor Nina Japundzic-Zigon, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Professor David Murphy, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol (host)
    
    
• What do immigration controls have to do with Empire?
  • Professor Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai’i Manoa, Hawaii
  • Professor Bridget Anderson, Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol (host)
    
    

• As part of the Bristol Poverty Institute's Conference 'Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: From the Local to the Global'  

• Dr Tebeje Molla, a future BBMDVP visitor from Deakin Univeristy, Australia, took part in the Education Session: 'Education and Human Development: Analytical Reflections'.
  
  Presentation slides
  
  We also welcome you to read a blog post coordinated by Dr Tebeje Molla (Deakin University, Australia) and Dr Tigist Grieve (University of Bristol, UK), with contributions from Prof Leon Tikly (University of Bristol, UK), Dr Emily (Markovich) Morris (American University, Washington D.C., USA),  Dr Arif Naveed (University of Bath, UK), and Mr Simon Ingram-Hill (former Country Director for the British Council in Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Hungary, Mauritius). The blog post extendes the discussion on 'Critical perspectives on Education and Poverty'.

• Former BBMDVP Luis Beccaria, University of General Sarmiento and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, took part in the closing session Building Back Fairer: Concluding Session with 'Facing poverty in post-pandemic Latin America.'
  
  Presentation slides