Development Impact Stories

Forging connections and collaboration across the Commonwealth: A Review of the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship Programme

Forging connections and collaboration across the Commonwealth: A Review of the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship Programme

by | Jan 27, 2022 |

As well as offering Scholarships for postgraduate and doctoral study, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission has funded almost 2,500 Academic Fellowships since 1969, providing early and mid-career academics from across the Commonwealth with the opportunity to work and undertake research at UK universities. The CSC Evaluation Team recently undertook a review of the programme using data gathered from the 2015-2017 cohorts. The aim was to identify the outcomes, impact, and the scope of the potential short and long-term benefits of the Academic Fellowships on the Fellows’ Host institutions in the UK and their employing institutions in their home countries, as well as on the Fellows themselves.

Quarantining COVID-19

Quarantining COVID-19

by | Feb 8, 2021 |

Miraj Kobad Chowdhury explains the air-liquid culture (ALI) techniques he is practising in order to investigate exactly how respiratory viruses, such as the one responsible for COVID-19, infect human lung cells and define specific cell sensitivities to the infection.

From epidemics to a pandemic

From epidemics to a pandemic

by | Feb 8, 2021 |

Alpha Forna explains how inclusive research is making a difference in dealing with epidemics and pandemics, focusing on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and more recently COVID-19.