Africa Initiative
A list of our Africa Initiative stories
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Universities gather for celebration of first anniversary of partnership
An alliance between the University of Dundee and Malawi’s six public universities celebrates its first anniversary this year, highlighting enormous opportunities for developing the skills and solutions to address global challenges.
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Africa Celebration Day
We celebrated our Africa Doctoral Fellows, who are working on a wide range of thought-provoking research topics
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University celebrates emerging legal talent in Africa
Students from schools in Africa are recognised as excellent in the 2024 edition of the University of Dundee’s African Schools Mooting Competition.
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Making the ‘invisible’ visible
Esther Mabedi aims to transform the lives of people in her home country by improving safe access to Malawi’s ‘invisible’ resource – groundwater. A fully funded PhD from the University of Dundee is helping her do just that.
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The first cohort of the Africa Doctoral Fellowship Scheme
The University has launched a multi-million pound Doctoral Fellowship Scheme to develop capacity in partner universities and underpin sustainable long term collaborations between research teams in Dundee and Africa – here are the first group of awardees
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Recap: Africa Lecture Series - Principal in conversation with Professor Adam Habib
University leaders from Dundee and London met to discuss how universities take forward promotion of equitable partnerships in their institutional engagement with the Global South
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Supporting the development of a Drug Discovery Hub in Ghana
The University of Dundee is working with institutes in Ghana to improve existing drug discovery capacity in the region and establish a drug discovery hub
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Dundee-Lagos – breaking the borders of partnership
Leaders from the Universities of Dundee and Lagos have strengthened links between the two institutions in a new commitment to working in equitable partnership
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Meet the Malawian awardees of the University’s Africa Doctoral Fellowship scheme
The University of Dundee has launched a multi-million pound Doctoral Fellowship scheme that will bring African researchers to Dundee to complete their doctorates
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Malawi’s Education Minister commends partnerships
Malawi’s Minister of Education, Madalitso Kambauwa Wirima, has praised collaborations between the country's six public universities and the University of Dundee.
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Malawian experts to take centre stage for first anniversary of Blantyre Declaration
Leading Malawian experts will address audiences across the UK and Africa next week in the latest event in the University of Dundee’s Africa Lecture Series
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Making a difference in Africa and beyond
The University launched its Africa Initiative in November 2022, a new long-term commitment to working in equitable partnership in research, education and engagement, to enrich lives both in Scotland and Africa.
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University’s commitment to Malawi showcased at Scottish Parliament
A long-term commitment to working in equitable partnership has the capability to enrich lives both in Scotland and Africa, the Scottish Parliament has heard.
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‘Trees of Hope’ symbolises Dundee’s Africa commitment
The planting of two ‘Trees of Hope’ symbolises the University of Dundee’s commitment to equitable working with partners in Africa.
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University leaders strengthen Malawi’s relationship with Dundee
University leaders from Dundee and Malawi came together to launch an innovative partnership model with the potential to transform lives and support communities across Malawi and beyond.
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WCAIR’s Malawi mission to aid African science
The work of scientists in some of Africa’s remotest communities is about to be transformed by the University of Dundee.
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New diagnostic test for human African Sleeping Sickness
A new diagnostic test developed from research at the Universities of Dundee and Cambridge has been launched with the aim of helping eliminate the disease known as African sleeping sickness.
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Africa's lawyers of tomorrow celebrated by UK university
The debating skills of Africa’s future legal experts have been recognised as outstanding in a mooting competition hosted by a leading UK university
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Pupils plant seeds of partnership with Malawian plot
Scotland’s ties to Malawi will break new ground this week when a new garden celebrating the links between the two countries is revealed to the public
