During a current go to, Professor Clive Roberts, Executive Dean (Science), met with Japanese companions to develop analysis collaborations in clear vitality, quantum physics, good grids and bioengineering.
As a part of Durham’s longstanding connections with Japan, Professor Roberts visited Kyushu University, the Institute of Science Toky
o and Waseda University to establish additional for brand spanking new analysis collaborations. Professor Roberts was in Japan to participate within the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum in Kyoto.
Durham analysis excellence
Professor Roberts shared key areas of our analysis excellence with Japanese counterparts. As a part of his discussions, Professor Roberts shared our experiences of main a brand new £21m UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub, to decarbonise the UK maritime sector in addition to endeavor new analysis into decarbonising heating and cooling utilizing hydrogen; co-leading a £11.5m EPSRC Communications Hub for Empowering Distributed Cloud Computing Applications and Research (CHEDDAR) hub devoted to advancing future communications. Durham can be a part of two of 5 new nationwide hubs, supported by a £160million funding, to harness the ability of quantum physics.
Working intently with Japan
Durham has a longstanding reference to Japan and has many analysis and partnerships throughout the nation.
Over the final 5 years, researchers throughout all 4 of our schools collaborated with colleagues at some 200 establishments in Japan to supply over 600 joint publications. Collaborations span a breadth of disciplines to deal with international challenges together with local weather change and vitality, well being, rising applied sciences and area and satellite tv for pc applied sciences.
We’ve collaborated on work across the rising deep-sea mining business and the Health Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions (HIVE) mission, which goals to tell higher well being interventions in humanitarian crises by researching the effectiveness of respiratory safety worn by individuals throughout volcanic eruptions.
Durham-Japan collaborations have performed cutting-edge analysis to enhance lives internationally, in fields comparable to rising applied sciences, catastrophe prevention, sea-level change, and fertility science. Professor Chris Done (Physics) is without doubt one of the scientists main the XRISM mission, a collaboration between the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) and NASA, with important participation from the European Space Agency. We even have scholar change agreements with eleven Japanese universities.
We had been just lately visited by Mr. Jun Nakazawa, Economic Counsellor on the Japanese Embassy in London. We mentioned our college partnerships in Japan in addition to Durham researchers actively participating with business companions, together with Japanese multinationals based mostly within the North East of England.
RENKEI: selling worldwide collaboration
In 2021 we joined RENKEI, the Japan-UK Research and Education Network for Knowledge Economy Initiatives. This consortium comprising ten UK and Japanese universities has been on the forefront of strengthening UK-Japanese analysis collaborations. RENKEI helps our researchers in forging new connections to deal with urgent international subject. Professor Roberts’s go to to Japan coincides with the beginning of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global) Professor Claire O’Malley’s tenure as the RENKEI UK co-Chair.