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Communications in advocacy work to resolve environmental conflicts The project seeks to address the socio-environmental conflicts that are a crucial feature of the development debate life in Peru today through strengthening the capacity of local radio stations (mainly Church-run) and community leaders to intervene more effectively in these debates.  It will provide these groups with better information on the environmental and social issues involved (including climate change and indigenous rights) and seek to improve their communications and advocacy techniques.

The project will operate in four of Peru’s macro-regions, North-East (based in Cajamarca), East (based in Iquitos, the Amazon), Central Highlands (based in Huancayo), Southern Andes (based in Sicuani).  CAFOD’s main contribution is likely to be via the Southern Andes, which is our priority region in Peru.
Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy Phase 2 - 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.
Pollution and Climate Smart Agriculture in China (PaCSAC) The ultimate aim of PaCSAC is to identify feasible emission reduction options and scenarios for the Chinese agricultural
sector aimed at reducing GHG and air pollutant emissions, and to quantify the impact of each scenario in terms of its ability
to reduce the adverse effects of agricultural emissions on arable crop productivity and on human health. 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.
Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy 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.
Advanced Technologies for Radio Telescopes in Mexico and the UK Capacity building programme to improve technological capabilities in areas of industrial relevance. It will develop capacity of scientific infrastructure in Mexico to address development needs, and contributes to SDGs 4,9. 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: Exoplanet Citizen Science with the Thai Robotic Telescope Network The need for innovation in Thailand's science literacy strategy at upper secondary level is underscored by disappointing placements in recent international surveys of science literacy, including the recent PISA 2018 survey that places Thailand 53/78 countries tested. We aim to use an existing UK-Thai exoplanet research network to inspire students and help improve science literacy at upper secondary level. The study of exoplanets, planets around stars beyond our Sun, is a relatively new field that is a high priority STFC research area and is known to fire the imagination of the school students and indeed the general public.   The Spectroscopy and Photometry of Exoplanet Atmospheres Research Network (Spearnet) is a UK-Thai collaboration that is using Thailand's global optical telescope network to systematically study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Many of the key principles that lie behind the detection and characterisation of exoplanets are introduced to students at upper secondary level, such as mass moments, the Doppler effect, spectroscopy and the nature of light.   We will use our active UK-Thai SPEARNET programme as a science literacy catalyst to develop a Citizen Science Exoplanet Hub that we will use to train advanced school students across Thailand in data processing and analysis techniques used for exoplanet research. The principles and techniques will have high knowledge transfer across all Science and Technology sectors that require analysis and modelling of large and complex datasets. The Exoplanet Hub will be available in both Thai and English languages and will  - showcase how we find and characterise exoplanets;  - include explainers behind the underlying principles and technologies used; - enable students to select their own exoplanet targets for observation with the Thai Robotic Telescope network; - guide students interactively through all stages of the science process, including image acquisition, data processing, and theoretical modelling and interpretation.  Students across Thailand will be able to use versions of the tools that we use to obtain and reduce scientific data that will tell us about the characteristics of exoplanet atmospheres. They will gain knowledge in how modern science is developing sophisticated automated tools to deal with ever larger data sets within the era of Big Data. 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.
Building capacity in Malaysia and South East Asian countries to improve skills for utilising large facilities. Capacity building activities to promote high tech skills for large facilities for applied research across a range of disciplines. It will help researchers in Malaysia and South East Asian countries to address development needs, contributes to SDG 9. 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.
Towards freeform optics manufacturing capabilities in Thailand for Space and Astronomical applications Training and research programme to help develop skills in big data management, advanced engineering and digital innovation. This will help researchers in Thailand to boost high tech skills, contributes to SDG4,8,9. 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.
Non-Staff Delivery Costs for CHN_147 Non-Staff Delivery Costs for CHN_147 - Lab based - RAL Space 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.
Building capacity in Thailand and South East Asian countries to improve skills for utilising large facilities. Building capacity in Thailand and South East Asian countries to improve skills for utilising large facilities. 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 Fund for capacity building in data intensive science in the Middle-East Training and skills development programme in big data and data intensive science. It will enable Jordanian researchers to apply advanced techniques to solve development challenges, addresses SDGs 3,11, benefits Middle East 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.
Nucleon decay search and cosmic rays in the DUNE experiment The Deep Underground Neutrino experiment (DUNE) will carry out accurate measurements of neutrino oscillations and search for other effects in particle physics beyond the Standard model, such as nucleon decay. The proposed research focuses on a search for nucleon decay as an exciting topic in modern physics. The project involves development of advanced methods for discriminating potential nucleon decay events from a background caused by cosmic-ray muons. We plan to improve on algorithms for event reconstruction and particle identification and apply machine learning techniques to increase the efficiency of identifying signal events and rejecting cosmic-ray background. We will be working with simulated data, as well as the data collected by prototype experiments, such as ProtoDUNE and SBND. Working in collaboration between UK (Sheffield) physicists and Malaysian scientists will allow academics and PhD students from Malaysia to be trained in the areas of particle physics, data intensive science and machine learning techniques applied to complex particle physics problems. 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 Towards TeV Energy Frontiers with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Gamma rays are the most energetic kind of radiation used by astronomers - around a million times more energetic than X-rays. We are protected by the Earth's atmosphere from this energetic radiation, but we are still able to see its effects on the ground. Each gamma-ray creates a cascade of sub-atomic particles in the atmosphere, which produces the light-speed equivalent of a sonic boom - a flash of blue light called Cherenkov radiation. This light is faint (about 1/10000th of the total starlight) and each flash lasts only a few billionths of a second, but with enough large telescopes, we can detect it and work out where this extraordinary radiation comes from (generally black holes and the remains of dead stars!).  Astronomers and engineers from 31 countries are currently in the process of designing and building a new array of telescopes to detect gamma-rays; the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Two of the countries involved in this project are the UK and Thailand. While the UK has been in the project since it started, Thailand joined in 2015, and the aim of this project is to work together to enable the astronomers and engineers in Thailand to strengthen their contribution to CTA. This, in turn, will help the project as a whole progress and enable further scientific co-operation between the UK and Thai researchers involved, to the benefit of all parties.  There are three strands to this project. The first is to combine the expertise in mirror technology at Durham University with the expertise at NARIT in Thailand, with the aim of NARIT's being able to provide a mirror facility for CTA that will oat, characterize, qualify and maintain CTA's mirrors - as there will be over 5000 of them, this is quite a challenge, which will be best met by combining our efforts. Secondly, while the Thai astronomers have a lot of experience in analyzing astronomical data, they do not have any experience in analyzing gamma-ray data. The team at Durham has the most experience of anyone in the UK in this aspect of the project, and they will help the Thai astronomers learn to analyze gamma-ray data so that they will be able to benefit scientifically from the data that CTA will bring us in a few years' time. Finally, we are planning to create material that will teach schoolchildren and the general public about CTA, particularly by translating current CTA outreach material into Thai. 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.
Pollution and Climate Smart Agriculture in China (PaCSAC) 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.
Adaptive Optics Programme for the Thai National Observatory The Earth's turbulent atmosphere blurs the images of astronomical objects. Adaptive Optics (AO) 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 AO 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 the AO and turbulence profiling instrumentation, build a domestic advanced astronomical instrumentation capability within Thailand.   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 companies overseas.  The proposed research includes using advanced techniques developed at some of the world's premier observatories to fully characterise the atmospheric turbulence at Thai National Observatory (TNO) site. This part of the project will involve UK and Thai researchers working together on the development of new atmospheric characterisation instrumentation that will be deployed at the telescope site in northern Thailand. Large datasets will need to be captured and processed in an efficient manor by the collaboration, further training Thai researchers at NARIT in AO data acquisition, handling and analysis.  To assist with the training of researchers in the use and development of AO systems, we will also run a workshop in Thailand that focuses on the use of computer modelling of AO systems. AO system simulations are complex to understand, run and modify and we will provide hands-on training in how to set up and analyse the outputs from such simulations.  The training of staff and researchers within Thailand in the techniques and technologies used within AO is funded as part of the overseas development aid budget, with the goal of increasing skills in advanced optical technologies that can support new industrial applications  within the developing Thai economy.  This project also provides Thailand with an experienced AO system users and developers through the instrumentation programme run jointly with NARIT at the Thai National Observatory. Finally, this program allows UK and Thai researchers to undertake fundamental research into the properties of atmospheric turbulence and the development of novel instrumentation that can potentially be applied to other telescopes and fields outside astronomy. 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: Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools (ThaiPASS): A STEM outreach project on Python with applications to data-driven astronomy Project ThaiPASS (Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer School) is a human-capacity building STEM outreach project proposed jointly by the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics (University of Hull, UK) and the Institute of Fundamental Study (Naresuan University, Thailand), with partnership from the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT). Each ThaiPASS is a full-board summer school aimed at Thai secondary school students age around 16-18. Students will receive training in scientific computing in Python, one of the fastest growing open-source programming languages and one of the most desirable from an employability perspective. Students will learn to use Python to handle data via the medium of astronomy, which is one of the most inspiring and high-impact STEM enablers. Over a 5-day course, 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 videos. Students will leave the summer school with a new perspective on the role of data science in modern reserach, and will be inspired to continue to learn coding beyond the scope and time-scale of the summer school. The summer school will also include 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. The UK team from Hull particularly understand the importance of high-quality STEM outreach: Hull is one of the most impoverished cities in the UK with a large proportion of under-performing schools. However, through our previous outreach work (over 150 science outreach events in the past 3 years, mostly in Hull and the Yorkshire region), we have witnessed first-hand the positive transformation STEM education can make for young people who might not have otherwise considered taking up science at University and as a career.  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, Naresuan. Chulalongkorn, Suranaree etc. Investment in the ThaiPASS project will be a small but significant 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 STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-India Training programme to establish education in big data management and analysis, advanced engineering, and upskilling local teams in gravitational wave science. It supports India’s economic development plan, 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.
Integrating advanced earth observation and environmental information for sustainable management of crop pests and diseases The project aims to bring together and produce cutting edge research to provide pest and disease monitoring and forecast information, integrating multi-source (Earth Observation (EO), meteorological and vertical looking radar) to support decision making in the sustainable management of insect pests and diseases. The project will explore the integration and fusion of new data sources from recently launched satellites with existing data products. This will overcome spatial and temporal differences to produce new data solutions and algorithms which are suitable for pest and disease monitoring and prediction, intervention efficacy forecasting and estimation of yield losses. The new data products and algorithms will be tested using two candidate systems: a fungal disease of wheat (stripe rust) and a serious insect pest (migratory locust). The corresponding efficacy of a biopesticide used to control the locust will also be explored, with the aim to investigate whether the same data inputs produced during this project can be utilised under a wide range of systems, leading to a greater impact of data assimilation in the future. Models will be validated in the laboratory and in the field to give a measure of certainty of predictions. Additionally, risk and loss estimation will be investigated using cutting edge EO techniques, and monitoring of locusts will be explored using Vertical Looking Radar, a technology which is capable of identifying the size and species of insect flying through a radar beam. In addition to building monitoring and forecasting systems with data assimilated during this project, routes to extend this information to appropriate end users will be explored to ensure maximum impact of technologies developed during the project. The project consortium will work closely with NATESC in China to ensure the system is built in a way that is compatible with existing methods of information dissemination. The project consortium is a strong multidisciplinary team with expertise in EO, vertical-looking radar technology and agricultural research and extension. 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.
Development of a new national facility for Mexican radio astronomy at Tulancingo Training programme to establish education in big data management and analysis, advanced engineering, and upskilling local teams in radio astronomy. It supports Mexico’s economic development plan, addresses SDG4 and benefits Latin American 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 STFC-NARIT: Using astronomy education as a motivator for long-term capacity building in STEM Astronomy is an area of science that interests and excites almost everyone - across all age, gender, social and cultural groups. However, this is in contrast to the science that it is part of, and the technology that drives it, which are often perceived as "boring" or "too complicated". This dislike (or even distrust) of science and technology can lead to even very young children deciding that science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are not for them, closing down exciting career options before they are even aware that they exist. In the long term, this can cause significant problems for a nation, particularly one like Thailand, which needs an ever larger high-tech workforce if it is to continue to develop its economy.  In the UK, the National Schools' Observatory (NSO) have for over two decade been using astronomy to help overcome these prejudices in younger children before they fully develop, and show them the possibilities that STEM careers can offer. In this project the NSO's experience will be shared with Thai astronomers, along with a wealth of educational resources and, most importantly, direct access to observations from the world's largest fully-robotic telescope - the Liverpool Telescope (LT) - and data from Thailands own national telescopes. This will provide a big boost for Thai education, and help Thai astronomers to share the excitement of what they do with a new, important, young audience. 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.
Knowledge exchange and transferable skills development of Malaysian students in big data analysis through Astronomy Online Labs. Capacity building project to develop high-end data analysis and computing skills through learning research technique for big data sets. It will help enhance Malaysian capability to address development needs, 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.