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Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy Phase 2 Training programme to establish education in big data management and analysis and advanced engineering to upskill local teams in radio astronomy. It supports South Africa’s economic development plan, and contributes to SDG4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Space-enabled Crop disEase maNagement sErvice via Crop sprAying Drones (SCENE-CAD) Research programme in remote sensing technologies to enable large scale monitoring of agricultural and environmental conditions. It will strengthen China's ability to address agricultural challenges, contributes to SDGs 13,15. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-India Training programme to establish education in big data management and analysis and advanced engineering to upskill local teams in radio astronomy. It supports India’s economic development plan, and addresses SDG4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton STFC-NARIT Capacity Building for Thai Radio Astronomy Phase 2 Thailand is planning a major investment in radio astronomy, with the development of a new world-class radio telescope (the Thai National Radio Telescope). This facility is a strategic priority for Thai research as radio astronomy incorporates many key skills of value to a developing knowledge economy (engineering, electronics, information technology, computational and communications technology). However the project comes with significant human capacity and skills development challenges in that currently Thailand has few radio astronomers or engineers who can design, construct and operate the telescope. Our project is designed to address these challenges using the UK's long heritage and highly developed skills in radio astronomy. The UK has a leadership role in the world's next generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, and so places a high strategic priority on the global development of radio astronomy and the training of future generations of radio astronomers who will exploit this long-term project.  We will partner with the Thai astronomical and technical community to transfer specific technical knowledge of radio astronomy instrumentation and to also bolster the Thai astronomical skill base. We will carry out a joint programme programme of training, outreach, and bilateral exchanges to strengthen the Thai radio astronomy community and develop skilled human capital via training in radio astronomy, required computer skills and instrumentation. Our programme will not only help to develop the skills that Thailand needs for the Thai National Radio Telescope but will also have impact on the wider economy through the increased uptake of graduates in Science Technology Engineering and Medicine (STEM), and upskilling of current graduates and postgraduates in electronics, information & communications technology and advanced data processing. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton STFC-Narit: Using astronomy surveys to train Thai researchers in handling Big Data The most effective way of reducing levels of poverty in developing countries is through their continued economic development, which leads to increased levels of income per person. To remain competitive, however, a developing economy needs access to a workforce with increasingly sophisticated skills. For Thailand today, this means skills that enable innovation, allowing it to successfully compete against other developing and developed economies. With more and more sectors collecting data on their customers, production lines, distribution networks, stock prices, etc.,  one of the most crucially needed "high-level" skills is the ability to handle large amounts of digital data. However, Thai data scientists and students typically lack ready access to very large datasets, which presents a barrier to their training in this area. Similarly, other scientists - including astronomers - typically lack the necessary data handling skills to efficiently store and analyse the large amounts of data they collect. Our project addresses both these problems by combining UK and Thai astronomers' access to and understanding of very large datasets with Thai data scientists' skills in databasing and machine learning to train Thai students in advanced data handling techniques.  Working under the supervision of the Thai and UK partners, the graduate students involved in the project will establish a data centre at NARIT to store and automatically analyse the hundreds of gigabytes of data generated each night by the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observatory (GOTO) - a major new survey telescope of which NARIT is a contributing member. In the process, the students will gain vital experience of database management and automated, machine learning-based data analyses. The resulting data centre will be an important research asset for NARIT astronomers and a key training resource for the broader Thai scientific community. Indeed, we will ourselves use the data centre as a training aid in teaching data handling skills to up to 60 other researchers and students during two 5-day practical workshops (one held each year of the grant with space for up to 30 trainees each). Through three graduate research projects, our team will develop the data centre into an automated storage and analysis system with the ultimate goal of outputting a prioritised list of targets for follow-up observations with NARIT's other observing facilities. In doing so, the Thai data centre will be a testbed for machine learning-based analyses, remaining at the forefront of all GOTO data centres in terms of data handling research. On completion of the project, the skills acquired by the Thai students will be readily transferrable to a diverse range of economic sectors such as information technology, medicine, finance, security, etc., thereby helping the further economic development of Thailand. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
AMAZING- Advancing MAiZe INformation for Ghana Research programme in remote sensing technologies to enable large scale monitoring of agricultural and environmental conditions. It will strengthen China's ability to address agricultural challenges, contributes to SDGs 13,15. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Radio Astronomy for Development in Africa - A Newton Fund Project Training programme to establish education in big data management and analysis and advanced engineering to upskill local teams in radio astronomy. It supports South Africa’s economic development plan,addresses SDG4 and benefits many African countries. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton RCUK-SEA -- Capacity Building in STEM to ensure a sustainable community development and a successful astronomical observatory in Timor Training and education programme to develop educational materials and support, and project training in energy, water and waste management challenges. It will help Indonesia develop capacities to address needs, contributes to SDG4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
DARA Big Data: Colombia Training and skills building programme to establish education in big data management and analysis and advanced engineering to upskill local teams in radio astronomy. It supports Colombia’s economic development plan, and addresses SDG 4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton STFC-NARIT: Adaptive Optics Programme for the Thai National Observatory The Earth's turbulent atmosphere blurs the images of astronomical objects. Adaptive Optics can be used to counteract the detrimental effects of the Earth's atmosphere and restore sharp images. It is only by developing advanced optical instrumentation, such as Adaptive Optics systems, that we can enable the next generation of astronomical discoveries. Here, we propose a collaborative project between Durham University, UK, and the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. This proposal not only aims to strengthen links between Thai and UK instrumentation communities, but also through the joint development of an AO system testbench build a domestic advanced astronomical instrumentation capability within Thailand. This not only has benefits directly to astronomy, but will form the core of an instrumentation training faciilty that can be used to provide students and engineers with experience of developing and operating automated opto-mechanical instrumentation. AO system development provides experience within a huge range of fields, including optical metrology, machine-vision, computer automation and high-speed computing. Such skills are in high demand within many sectors of Thai economy where much of the advanced technical knowledge and instrumentation is currently licensed or purchased from overseas.  The proposed research includes using advanced techniques developed at some of the worlds premier observatories to fully characterise the Thai National Observatory (TNO) site. This part of the project will involve UK and Thai researchers working together with dedicated atmospheric characterisation instrumentation as well as analysing weather forecasts to develop dynamic models of the atmosphere above the observatory. Once the model has been validated with on-site measurements, archived weather forecast data will be used to make a statistical analysis of the site quality. Large datasets will need to be processed in an efficient manor by the collaboration, further training Thai researchers in data acquisition, handling and analysis.  The TNO site will then be evaluated to determine the most effective type of Adaptive Optics system based on expected atmoshperic conditions. This phase will involve configuring and running computer simulations of various instruments to see which will ultimately deliver the science that best aligns with the research interests of NARIT. We will finally jointly develop an instrument prototype which is capable of correcting for the Earth's turbulence. This prototype will be used to undertake experimentation regarding adaptive optics control techniques and will be designed such that it will also be compatible with the interface to the TNO 2.4m telescope for on-sky demonstration. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
DARA Big Data: 2019 Extension Training and skills programme to establish education in big data management and analysis and advanced engineering to upskill local teams in radio astronomy. It supports South Africa’s economic development plan, and addresses SDG4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton RCUK-CONACYT MUSCAT - a new technology large-format camera for the Large Millimeter Telescope Research programme to develop technology and expertise in new technology large-format camera for astronomy. It supports Mexico’s development needs with potential use of technology and expertise in a range of applications, and contributes to SDG 4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Training Indonesian scientists on the design, running and analysis of experiments at UK facility to explore novel catalytic processes of biofuel production from palm oil waste. Training activities for studying novel catalytic processes of biofuel production. This will help Indonesian scientists to use UK facility to design, run and analyse experiments to turn palm oil waste into biofuels, and addresses SDG 7. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Exploiting synchrotrons for industrial and societal needs in Thailand and South East Asian countries. Training activities to develop high tech skills in synchrotrons and to enhance industrial research. It will help researchers in industry and academia in Thailand and other South East Asian countries to address development needs, contributes to SDG4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Project ThaiPASS: Thailand-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools 2020 and 2021. Project ThaiPASS (Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer School) is a human-capacity building STEM-outreach project involving 3 UK universities (Warwick, Hull, UCLan) and 2 Thai partners (Naresuan and NARIT).  The core activity of ThaiPASS is a 5-day workshop aimed at Thai secondary school students age around 16-18. Students will receive hands-on training in scientific computing in Python, one of the world's fastest growing open-source programming languages and one of the most desirable from an employability perspective. Students will learn to use Python to mine, analyse and visualise data. This will be done via the medium of astronomy, which is one of the most inspiring and high-impact STEM enablers. Professional astronomers from the UK will guide students through a series of lectures and hands-on tasks involving handling astronomical data and producing visual output such as astronomical images and graphs. Students will leave the summer school with a new perspective on the role of data science in modern scientific research, and will be inspired to continue to learn coding beyond the scope and time-scale of the summer school. Each summer school concludes with a "university and career" day to inform students on how STEM subjects can be taken further at university level and as a career.  The ThaiPASS project will address many of the challenges in science and ICT education in Thailand, which has fallen far behind other countries emerging out of the middle-income trap. At ThaiPASS, we will bring STFC-funded science to new audiences who may not have the opportunity to access such training otherwise. The skills developed at ThaiPASS are current, relevant and easily transferable to a wide range of industrial and academic applications.   Our experience with delivering ThaiPASS in 2018 and 2019 has informed us that our workshop is unique from other locally organised "summer camps" which are geared towards Olympiad-style training. Feedback over the past 2 years have been overwhelmingly positive, with many previous participants going on to higher education in various STEM areas. For the 20/21 schools, we will deliver bigger events (doubling the number of participants), cover more topics in astronomy, and provide separate teacher-training sessions.  In recent years, Thailand has established itself as an emerging player in astrophysics research thanks to a new generation of internationally recognised researchers at NARIT, Chiang Mai, Naresuan. Chulalongkorn, Suranaree etc. Investment in the ThaiPASS project will be an important step towards forging a strong and lasting Thai-UK synergy, which can easily spin off into future collaborations in astrophysics research and further outreach activities. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton RCUK-CONACYT Cost-efficient and radiation-tolerant pixel detectors for ionising radiation based on thin-film technology Research and capacity building programme to explore novel uses of thin-film technology for imaging. It will build capabilities of Mexican researchers to address development needs, and contributes to SDG 4. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Upskilling Malaysian researchers in advanced physics skills via research into Shock-Boundary Layer Interaction Control in Hypersonic Flow using Hybrid Micro-Vortex Generators Capactiy building for Malaysia. Shock-wave turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWTBLI) interaction is a complex phenomenon that adversely affects the performance of supersonic flight vehicles. The micro-ramp is a recently developed novel passive flow control device that is a part of the micro-vortex generator (MVG) family. Although MVGs have shown potential in minimising the adverse effects of SWTBLI to a certain extent, previous studies indicate great scope for further improvement. In this investigation, the use of micro-ramps (passive flow control) will be paired with jet blowing (an active flow control mechanism).  SWTBLI involves complex physics and is challenging for investigation using experimental techniques and numerical simulations. In this project, we propose to study hybrid MVG's as the flow control device experimentally using the hypersonic wind tunnel facility at the University of Manchester, and numerically using large eddy simulation (LES) by STFC to obtain a better understanding of the flow physics. The primary aim of this activity is capacity building for Malaysia and Malaysian scientists, and as such the primary benefits are to Malaysia. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton STFC-NARIT : Towards freeform optics manufacturing capabilities in Thailand for Space and Astronomical applications Thailand is quickly building its astronomical instrumentation development capacity. In the past decade, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) has actively grown its workforce on two fronts: astronomical instrumentation for the Thai National Observatory (TNO) and space instrumentation and satellite development through the Thailand Satellite Consortium (TSC; NARIT, the Siam Photon Laboratory and the Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency). TSC is currently building its first "made in Thailand" satellites - a major national milestone. However, one limitation restricts independent advancement on these fronts: to access innovative technologies, Thailand must rely on developed countries for hardware and associated support, and this is particularly true for optical design and manufacture, which depend heavily on heritage, expertise and specialised equipment.     NARIT desires to remove this barrier and invest in a future Thailand optical manufacturing capability, which will help to drive Thailand's economy and industries in line with the Thailand 4.0 economic model. This project proposes a programme that provides both knowledge exchange and a joint Thai-UK research project, to upskill Thai academics and engineers in conventional and additive optical manufacturing methods, to enable internal capability and impact within wider disciplines.  The project will enable the transfer of 2 key technologies to Thailand:   - Freeform optics are identified as a NARIT research priority; they are novel, versatile optical elements with no axis of rotation or symmetry. Increasingly, they are used in pioneering optical designs offering abundant new opportunities for optical designers. The emergence of these new types of surfaces has been very much in pace with the development of Single Point Diamond Turning (SPDT). - Metal additive manufacturing (MAM), which has significant potential when applied to optical manufacturing and freeform optics in particular. MAM is the process of building a component layer-upon-layer in metal and it is commonly used low count bespoke parts. MAM prints a near-net shape without material removal, formers, or shape manipulation, which define conventional manufacture  Combining Metal Additive Manufacturing with optical freeform manufacturing has, therefore, a lot of potential for the production of pioneering astronomical and space instrumentation.  SPDT and MAM have also a strong potential to be spun out into business ventures to stimulate the local economy. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Newton Agritech Data Integration and Application The STFC Newton Agritech Programme uses space based remote sensing technologies, data and modelling capabilities to aid farming practices in China. To date the programme has focused on the two of the three pillars that underpin the Newton Programme – Fundamental research and the Translation of the research to application and innovation. Through this RAL Space - STFC has funded 26 research programmes that have brought together 38 academic and industrial partners in the UK with 36 partners in China. These projects have been based around themes where STFC science can have a significant impact on agricultural productivity and research. These are: Sustainable Intensification, Climate Smart Agriculture, Precision Agriculture, Monitoring Pests and Diseases and Fundamental Technology. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Capacity building in South Africa to develop laser techniques for low cost disease diagnosis, investigation of water treatment techniques and sanitation systems, and characterisation of antibiotics for human health. Project to develop imaging and spectroscopy capabilities for characterising antibiotics, optimising drug delivery and investigating water treatment and sanitation systems. It builds South African capacity in addressing development needs, SDG 3, 6. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
BioSpace: Using space-enabled remote sensing to deliver long term sustainable growth of biopesticide use Research programme in remote sensing technologies to enable large scale monitoring of agricultural and environmental conditions. It will strengthen China's ability to address agricultural challenges, contributes to SDGs 13,15. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.