Research Development International Collaboration Awards 2024-25

Supply chain risk management using AI-drive tools

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Bangdong Zhi in the Bristol Business School
  • International Collaborator: Professor George (Gangshu) Cai (Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA)
  • Dates of activity: 20-29 July (Bristol)

Paving the way for change: Charting a bold research agenda following Malaysia's abolition of the mandatory death penalty

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Nasrul Ismail in the School for Policy Studies
  • International Collaborator: Dr Thaatchaayini Kananatu (Monash University, Malaysia)
  • Dates of activity: 1 - 30 July 2025 (Bristol)

Feather inspired wings for uncrewed air vehicles

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Shane Windsor in the School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
  • International Collaborator: Assistant professor Aimy Wissa (Princeton University, USA)
  • Dates of activity: 18 - 20 June 2025 (USA)

Relational Spaces and Visual Culture in Anti-Racism Activism in Brazil

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Professor Edward King in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
  • International Collaborator: Professor Jasmin Wrobel (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany)
  • Dates of activity: 12 - 13 June 2025 (Brazil)

Past human-environment dynamics in South America: Grant and Publication preparation

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Lorena Becerra Valdivia in the Department of Anthropology and Archeology
  • International Collaborator: Dr Haidee Cadd (University of Wollongong, Australia)
  • Dates of activity: 7 - 20 June 2025 (Bristol)

Exploring the understudies links between the Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclones and extreme weather in equatorial and southern Africa

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Rachel James in the School of Geographical Sciences
  • International Collaborator: Dr Wilfried Pokam (University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon)
  • Dates of activity: 1 - 9 June 2025 (Bristol)

Cerebellum and Emotional Networks

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Professor Richard Apps in the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience
  • International Collaborator: Professor Dagmar Timman-Braun (University Hospital Essen, Germany)
  • Dates of activity: June 2025 (Bristol)

Building a Bristol-Africa Gambling Harms Network

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Professor Agnes Nairn in the Bristol Business School
  • International Collaborator: Professor Pamela Raburu (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science, Kenya)
  • Dates of activity: May 2025 (Kenya)

Strengthening climate resilience via international partnerships for drought monitoring and desertification

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Rodolfo Bezerra Nobrega in the School of Geographical Sciences
  • International Collaborator: Professor John Cunha (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
  • Dates of activity: April and July 2025 (Bristol, Brazil)

Exploring student housing: Connecting higher education to social and spatial justice

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Professor Misa Izuhara in the School for Policy Studies
  • International Collaborator: Professor Silvia Mugnano (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy)
  • Dates of activity: February 2025, May 2025 (Italy, Bristol)

Blood Amber: conflict fossils, precarious livelihoods, and research ethics

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Mark Jackson in the School of Geographical Sciences
  • International Collaborators: Dr Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo, Norway) and Dr Laur Kiik (University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Dates of activity: 5 - 7 March 2025 (Bristol)

Criminalisation of Climate Protest

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Oscar Berglund in the School for Policy Studies
  • International Collaborators: Professor Greg Martin (University of Sydney, Australia) and Dr Cesar Bazan (Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru)
  • Dates of activity: 3 - 6 February 2025 (Bristol)

Linking Shopping Data with health information for public benefit research: an international perspective

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Anya Skatova in the Bristol Medical School
  • International Collaborator: Dr Anna-Leena Vuorinen (Tampere University, Finland)
  • Dates of activity: 1 - 28 February 2025 (Finland)

Exploring Robots and Gendered Harm

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Natasha Mulvihill in the School for Policy Studies
  • International Collaborator: Dr Katie Winkle (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Due to unforeseen circumstances, Katie's visit to Bristol has been cancelled. However, Natasha and Katie will continue to work unfunded on the proposed outputs in the medium term. They would like to register their thanks to the RDICA team for their support and they welcome future queries on the theme of robots, gender and harm to:

    natasha.mulvihill@bristol.ac.uk and katie.winkle@it.uu.se

The Future of Borders: Initial Meeting and Grant Development

  • UoB Lead Collaborator: Dr Rebecca Buxton in the Department of Philosophy
  • International Collaborator: Dr Jamie Draper (Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie's original visit dates to Bristol have been cancelled. However, the team hopes to reorganise a visit for this project.