Features

How we can be better research partners with developing countries
We need to overcome barriers to multi-disciplinary and collaborative research if we have any chance of avoiding the impending 'perfect storm', writes Dr Andrée Carter.

Managing Research for Impact
Research management in Africa is improving but there is still a way to go — that was one of the messages emerging from the third conference of the International Organisation for Research Management Societies (INORMS) held in Cape Town in April 2010.

Science, Technology and Society across the Commonwealth
From animal health projects to combating climate change, UKCDS members are working across developing Commonwealth countries to help tackle poverty and improve people's livelihoods.

 Bangladesh and UK scientists team-up to tackle climate change
UKCDS is building links between UK and Bangladeshi climate change scientists interested in the land, food and water interface and exchange visits are underway.

Changing the course of EU-Africa science cooperation
Scientific cooperation between Europe and Africa should be based on mutual strengths instead of the donor-recipient relationships that prevailed in the past, agreed policy-makers and scientists at the Coordination and Advancement of sub-Saharan Africa-EU Science & Technology Cooperation (CAAST-Net) conference in December 2009.

 Development: What's next and what are we going to do about it?
We are now at a turning point in development thinking and practice, says Charles Gore, Special Coordinator for Cross-sectoral Issues at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.