In 2022-23, GAE awarded thirteen global research awards for LSE collaborative research in twelve countries.
The Global Research Fund (GRF) aims to support collaborative endeavours between LSE faculty and other international research partners. The scheme acts as a seed fund to enable LSE researchers to initiate and carry out collaborative research activities that facilitate joint research output and future international grant applications.
Here are some of the projects supported in 2022-23:
Prof. Leigh Gardner, Prof. Johan Fourie (from Stellenbosch University's Economics department), Prof. Eric Schneider, and Nick Fitzhenry spent time together to work on a grant proposal looking at data from South Africa. The death notices records that the team hopes to digitise and the work they plan to carry on will shed new light on how the simultaneous processes of industrialization and tightening racial discrimination impacted different segments of the South African population.
To learn more about this project, read our full page here.
In May 2023, Dr Rocco Friedel and Dr Martilord Ifeanyichi coordinated a two-day workshop in Lukasa focusing on surgical priority setting in Zambia. Participants included a wide range of stakeholders ranging from the Ministry of Health, nurse leaders, representatives of surgery and anaesthesia societies, surgeons and researchers.
For more detailed information on this collaboration, read our full page here.
In April 2023, members of the Activism, Policy and Transformation research group hosted a two-day writing retreat in London. Researchers from Chile, Armenia, South Africa and Lebanon met face to face for the first time to map the outline of a co-authored article and to agree on other research dissemination and publication activities in the near future.
Read more about this initiative here.
In April 2023, Dr Elizabeth Storer, Dr Solomon Kamurari, and Dr Nixon Niyonzima met with local researchers to work on a joint funding application for a future project on ‘Inequality and Cancer Care’. To learn more about this collaborative workshop, read our full page here.
Check our website for the next round of applications in 2024-25.