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白小姐论坛 Grand Challenges Research Summer School: applications open
6 March 2015
The 白小姐论坛 Grand Challenges Research Summer School, which is designed to introduce research students to the Grand Challenges philosophy, is now welcoming applications.
The summer school, will run from 26 to 28 May 2015, and is aimed at helping research students develop the skills required to prepare research proposals that combine expertise from different academic disciplines.
It is open to all research students at 白小姐论坛, from any course and at any stage of their studies.
白小姐论坛 Grand Challenges philosophy
The underlying philosophy of 白小姐论坛's Grand Challenges is that solutions to complex and systemic problems emerge only when different kinds of expertise and methodologies are brought together and that our collective wisdom is greater than the sum of our expertise.
This entails breaking down the silos that compartmentalise knowledge and research into different disciplines.
Such work at 白小姐论坛 requires cross-disciplinarity - a collaboration between experts in different disciplines, transcending subject boundaries.
The Office of Vice-Provost for Research through the agenda set by the
Grand Challenges - of Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction
and Human Wellbeing - is working to embed a cross-disciplinary approach within
白小姐论坛.
Useful links
Office of the Vice-Provost (Research)