{"id":82,"date":"2018-07-04T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/?p=82"},"modified":"2018-08-29T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:52:07","slug":"kent-hosts-major-international-development-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/2018\/07\/04\/kent-hosts-major-international-development-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent hosts major international development conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/07\/nigel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/07\/nigel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/07\/nigel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/07\/nigel-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/07\/nigel.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking place at the University\u2019s Canterbury campus, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/research\/global-challenges-research-fund\/\">Global Challenges Research Fund<\/a>\u00a0(GCRF) conference will\u00a0<strong>bring together researchers from different international institutions and organisations\u00a0<\/strong>to discuss new projects that may be suitable for possible funding.<\/p>\n<p>GCRF forms part of the UK\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/dac\/stats\/officialdevelopmentassistancedefinitionandcoverage.htm\">Official Development Assistance<\/a>\u00a0(ODA) commitment, which aims to promote\u00a0<strong>sustainable economies and societies, human rights, good governance and social justice as well as equitable access to sustainable development across the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kent currently has a number of researchers receiving GCRF funding. These include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/c_robinson.html\">Professor Colin Robinson\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/smales.html\">Professor Mark Smales<\/a>, of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/index.html\">School of Biosciences<\/a>, who are\u00a0<strong>researching ways to help Thailand and neighbouring South East Asian countries develop their own biopharmaceuticals and animal vaccines<\/strong>; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/korosteleva.html\">Professor Elena Korosteleva<\/a>, of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/index.html\">School of Politics and International Relations<\/a>, who has a project to\u00a0<strong>build new research partnerships among higher education institutions in eastern Europe and central Asia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, which will be opened by Kent Vice-Chancellor and President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ovc\/people\/karen_cox.html\">Professor Karen Cox<\/a>, will feature a\u00a0<strong>keynote address<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/biographies\/lords\/baroness-suttie\/4298\">Baroness Suttie<\/a>, Liberal Democrat Lords spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking place at the University\u2019s Canterbury campus, the\u00a0Global Challenges Research Fund\u00a0(GCRF) conference will\u00a0bring together researchers from different international institutions and organisations\u00a0to discuss new projects that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/2018\/07\/04\/kent-hosts-major-international-development-conference\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}