In return, up to six academics from UCT will be visiting Bristol as part of the collaboration programme.
Bristol has awarded four Fellowships and two Professorships focused on research themes including climate change impacts and opportunities for health, equitable and sustainable health outcomes (with underpinning themes of social justice, data and digitalisation) and environmental and social sustainability.
The Fellowships are due to run for two years (six months of which will be based at UCT) while the Professorships are due to run for three years (12 months of which will be based at UCT), and the first visits to UCT are already underway.
The participating Professors and Fellows are expected to co-publish papers and submit joint grant applications to continue building the partnership between UCT and Bristol. They will also develop a programme of engagement with the host university and wider community, which will include giving lectures/talks to relevant audiences during their visits and contributing to the wider research culture of the university.
The Bristol award holders are:
Dr Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, Research Associate, School of Policy Studies, Perivoli Africa Research Centre
A comparative study on the multiple layers of power imbalances in scientific knowledge production: the case of public health in Ethiopia and South Africa
UCT host: Associate Professor Divine Fuh, Institute for Humanities in Africa
Dr Francesca Bartoli-Leonard, Senior Research Associate, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Novel markers to risk-stratify paediatric patients with congenital heart disease
UCT host: Professor Tim Pennel, Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr Ailish Craig, Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences
Climate resilient decision making in the health sector in southern African cities: Characterising and communicating climate information for climate resilient decision making in the health sector in southern African cities
UCT host: Alice McClure, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences
Dr James Duminy, Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Life-course cities: planning for long-term human health and wellbeing in the Anthropocene
UCT host: Associate Professor Andrew Tucker, African Centre for Cities
Professor Susan Parnell, Professor in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Mobilising sustainable global alternatives through African cities
UCT host: Professor Edgar Pieterse, African Centre for Cities, and Professor Frank Eckardt, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences
Professor Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and UNESCO Chair in Inclusive and Quality Education for All, School of Education
Transforming knowledge and research for just and sustainable futures in Africa
UCT host: Professor Azeem Badroodien, School of Education
The UCT award holders are:
Dr Shanaaz Hoosain, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Social Development, Humanities
Co-creating knowledge with communities who have a hidden history of slavery
Bristol host: Dr Saima Nasar, Department of History, School of Humanities
Professor Mark New, Director and AXA Research Chair, African Climate and Development Initiative, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science
Operational climate impacts attribution
Bristol host: Professor Guy Howard, Cabot Institute for the Environment and School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Four further awards will be granted in the second round of the call run at UCT and will be announced once available.
Professor Agnes Nairn, Pro Vice Chancellor (Global Engagement) said: “These Professorships and Fellowships mark an important and exciting moment in our deep strategic research-led partnership with University of Cape Town. It is one of our most important institutional international relationships. These new research collaborations also represent a milestone for our work with the continent of Africa – transforming the balance of research relationships between the global North and South. For the next three years Bristol and Cape Town will be supporting vital cross-fertilisation of ideas, evidence and impact.”