Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)

Research: WUN research at UCT

Research groups	Academic Lead	UCT Academic
Arts & Humanities
Development Impacts of Climate Narratives	Asuncion Lera St Clair University of Bergen	Dr Gina Ziervogel Environmental and Geographical Science Department
Geographies of Power: Justice, Revolution, and the Cultural Imagination	Professor Sophia McClennen Pennsylvania State University	Professor Shamil Jeppie Institute for Humanities in Africa
Engineering
Cognitive Communications Consortium	Professor David Grace University of York	Dr Antione Bagula Department of Computer Science
Medicine, Dentistry, & Health
Early Life Opportunities for the prevention of NCD in Developing Countries	Professor Mark Hanson University of Southampton	Dr William Horsnell Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
Immune Responses Underlying COPD pathology	Dr William Horsnell Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
WUN International Inflammation Network (in-FLAME)	Prof. Susan Prescott The University of Western Australia	Dr Michael Levin Department of Allergy & Asthma
SCIENCE
Characterising the transient radio sky with SKA precursors	Associate Professor Patrick Woudt Department of Astronomy
Global patterns of climate adaption in kelps	Dr Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia	Professor John Bolton Department of Botany
Limits to Adaptation	Dr Petra Tschakert Pennsylvania State University
Social SCIENCE
Global regionalism, Governance, and Higher Education	Dr Susan Robertson University of Bristol	Professor Crain Soudien Deputy Vice Chancellor
Globalising Geographies of Research	Professor Wendy Larner University of Bristol
Indian Ocean Archaeology Network	Prof. Alistair Paterson The University of Western Australia	Dr Shadreck Chirikure Department of Archaeology
Skilled Migration and Global English	Professor Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah Penn State University	Dr Ellen Hurst Dr Jonathan Marks Dept of Construction Economics & Management
Transformative Justice Networks	Professor Gordon Crawford University of Leeds	Dr Fiona Ross Dept of Social Anthropology
The Global Social Initiative on Ageing	Dr Norah Keating UUniversity of Alberta	Dr Sebastiana Kalula The Walter & Albertina Sisulu Institute of Ageing
White Spaces Networks	Dr Shona Hunter University of Leeds

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