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£1m for Edinburgh Global Academies


Some of the biggest challenges facing mankind will be investigated in a study by the University of Edinburgh’s four Global Academies. The £1m Leverhulme


Trust doctoral scholarship grant entitled 'Perfect Storm – Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training' will train four cohorts of doctoral researchers, to examine major problems around the world. Food insecurity, climate


change, access to energy, religious unrest and the increasing risk of zoonotic diseases that affl ict both humans and animals represent research topics that students will tackle. The money will help fund


research into these various threats and analyse how they disrupt and destabilise the lives of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. The term “the perfect


storm” was coined in 2009 by the UK Government’s then Chief Scientifi c Advisor Professor Sir John Beddington to describe the creation of conditions necessary for disruptive global events.


Global Academies Established to encourage students and staff to break down traditional subject barriers, the Global Academies bring together academics from a wide range of disciplines, encouraging them to pool knowledge and approach challenges from a range of positions. The Global Health Academy,


the Global Environment and Society Academy, the Global Justice Academy and the Global Development Academy have together played a key role in supporting the work of University Schools in creating more than 20 postgraduate programmes, which are delivered both as on-campus courses and as distance learning. The Academies have


also already secured in excess of £6m in grants for the academic year 2014/15 and have established and strengthened links with Yale University, the Clinton Foundation, Columbia Earth Institute, and Makerere University.


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