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Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment – Legal Duties on Employers UK Health and Safety legislation (the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (“The Regulations”)) requires that a...
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Research Capacity Strengthening
This executive summary and full paper provide a synthesis of the discussions at a workshop held by the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) on research capacity...
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Risk and Safety in developing countries
The following links may also be of use to research organisations that wish to improve risk assessments or the ability of their staff to improve their own safety awareness: The...
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Capacity resources
This section provides some information on various schemes aimed at improving research and innovation capacity in low and middle income countries. These pages are not...
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How impact is assessed under the 2014 REF
The 2014 REF replaces earlier Research Assessment Exercises (“RAE”) to enable the higher education funding bodies to allocate research grants between Higher Education...
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The shape of things to come
UN photo Having a long term view of where science for development should be going is no easy task. Much has been said about what the world might look like in the future...
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International Development: the blogging landscape
As I’m currently interning with the UKCDS Secretariat, I decided to take a look at the current landscape of development blogging, looking at what blogs are out there –...
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The UK Agri-Food Science Directory
The audience for this publication is primarily intended to be individuals and organisations outside of the UK looking to find specific skills, expertise and knowhow within the...
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One decade, one African village
Image: Ian Thornton, UKCDS Last week I was in Uganda for a Wellcome Trust-led meeting near the capital, Kampala. I also took the opportunity to go back to the village...
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Evaluating the impact of research programmes
THE CHALLENGE In the 1980s the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada supported research in fishery economics in South East Asia. By 1996, when this funding...