The University of Aberdeen last week launched the Centre for Sustainable International Development, an interdisciplinary hub for research and raising awareness in this increasingly important area. The University of Aberdeen is home to six Commonwealth Scholars, soon...
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Career updates and recent publications
Professor Kawuma Medi (Commonwealth Academic Fellow, Bristol Eye Hospital) has taken up the post of Assistant Deputy Vice- Chancellor (in charge of Hospital Based Academics and Services) at Ishaka Teaching Hospital, Kampala International University, Uganda. Dr Doris N...
Commonwealth Scholar one of Time’s top 100
Time magazine named alumnus Mark Carney (Commonwealth Scholar, DPhil Economics, University of Oxford), currently Governor of the Central Bank of Canada, as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in a recent spring issue. The magazine notes Carney’s continued...
Alumnus appointed to top media executive role in Canada
Edward Greenspon (Commonwealth Scholar, MSc in Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science), an eminent journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail, has been named as Vice-President, Business Development at the Toronto Star and other...
Alumnus to address international conference on leading drug research
Professor Henry Lowe (Commonwealth Scholar, MSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Manchester) will be speaking at the Eighth Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology in Beijing, China in October. The presentation will focus on work...
Former Scholar participates in Royal Society conference
Professor Abed Peerally, (Commonwealth Scholar, PhD Plan Pathology, University of Manchester), currently the Chairman of the Road Development Authority of Mauritius, was selected by the Royal Society/Nature to participate in their 'Tomorrow’s Giants' Conference, held...
Career news
Paul-Arthur Gendreau (Commonwealth Scholar, London School of Economics), formerly a judge with the Quebec Court of Appeal, has been appointed Counsel at Langlois Kronström Desjardins LLP, Canada. Smita Sadhu (Commonwealth Academic Fellow, University of Cambridge,...
Former Deputy Chair of the CSC joins LIDC
Dr Hilary Perraton, who was Deputy Chair of the CSC until 2009 , has been appointed as the first Visiting Fellow of the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The Fellowship – a joint honorary appointment at LIDC and the Institute of Education, University of...
Commonwealth scholar wins presentation prize
Mohd Golam Quader Khan (2007 Commonwealth Scholar from Bangladesh, PhD Aquaculture Genetics, University of Stirling) has won first prize in the oral presentation competition at the 2nd PhD Research Conference at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling.
Alumni publish books on agriculture in Asia, counselling
Dr C Devendra (Commonwealth Scholar, PhD and DSc in Animal Nutrition, University of Nottingham, 1966-1969), has recently published his seventeenth book, Small Farms in Asia: Revitalising Agricultural Production, Food Security and Rural Poverty. Small farms make a...
