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GCRF & Newton funding updated October 2019BRAZIL-UK Healthy Urban Mobility (HUM)
Principal Investigator Tim Jones, School of the Built Environment, Faculty of TDE, partnering with colleagues from Federal University of Santa Catarina and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UK share £336,241 from Newton ESRC; Brazil share R$ 1,440,292.44) 2016-2019

Structure - Function Relationships in Protozoan Parasites Utilising High Resolution 3D Bioimaging
Principal Investigator Sue Vaughan, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of HLS, partnering with colleagues from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UK share from Newton MRC £160,569; Brazil share from the MRC £169,411 held in UK for the partner to draw upon) 2016-2019

Global engagement event in Colombia
Principal Investigator Clare Martin, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of TDE, GCRF RCUK travel grant 2017

Gene Therapy Applications for Human Organ and Cell Transplantation: recovery of organs using new-generation, recombinant gene-delivery vectors and machine perfusion preservation
Principal Investigators Robert Possee & Linda King, Department of Biological & Medical Sciences, Faculty of HLS, with colleagues from National Medical Centre "20 de Noviembre" in Mexico (UK share from Newton Academy of Medical Sciences £30,196; Mexico share £111,000) 2018-2021

From education to employment? Trajectories in protracted displacement for young people in Lebanon
Principal Investigator Cathrine Brun, CENDEP, Faculty of TDE, with colleagues from Lebanon and refugees from Syria and Palestine. (UK share from the GCRF ESRC £368,117) 2018-2021

Extracellular vesicles and non-cellular RNA: roles in health and neglected tropical diseases
Principal Investigator Dave Carter, Department of Biological & Medical Sciences, Faculty of HLS, with colleagues in Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand and Turkey (UK share from Newton British Council £31,971) Workshops 2015-2018

Histories of publishing under apartheid in South Africa
Principal Investigator Caroline Davis, Faculty of TDE, with colleagues in South Africa 2018-2020 Newton British Academy Fellowship

The social and economic integration of refugees to the host societies
Principal Investigator Levent Altinay, Oxford Brookes Business School, with colleagues in Turkey (UK share from Newton British Academy £23,277) 2018-2020

Criticality analysis of energetic control in diabetic gait (CARDIGAN)
Principal Investigators Arantza Aldea, Faculty of TDE (UK share of Newton British Council £77,507) and Helen Dawes, MOReS, Faculty of HLS (UK share of £19,774) with colleagues in Mexico, 2019-2020

TsetseNET: developing scientific capacity through an interdisciplinary international network for tsetse fly research
Principal Investigator, Sue Vaughan, Department of Biological & Medical Sciences, Faculty of HLS, with colleagues in Ghana (UK share of GCRF Academy of Medical Sciences £23,600) 2019-2020

Cloud-based tools for diabetes management and research in Columbia
Principal Investigator Clare Martin, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of TDE with colleagues in Columbia (UK share of GCRF Academy of Medical Sciences £4,900) 2019-2020

Residential building energy demand reduction in India (RESIDE)
Principal Investigator Rajat Gupta, School of Built Environment, Faculty of TDE, with colleagues in India (UK share of Newton EPSRC £605,487) 2017-2021

Rewriting prehistory in Jordan
Principal Investigator Bill Finlayson, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of HSS, with colleagues in Jordan (UK share of Newton AHRC £202,377) 2019-2022

Learning building performance evaluation for improved design and engineering (Learn-BPE)
Principal Investigator Rajat Gupta, School of Architecture, Faculty of TDE, with colleagues in India (UK share of Newton Royal Academy of Engineering £24,950) 2017-2019

Self-recovery housing for development scaling up, crisis preparedness and humanitarian shelter response
Principal Investigator Cathrine Brun, CENDEP, Faculty of TDE, with colleagues across many DAC countries (UK share of GCRF EPSRC Translation Funding £690,143) 2019-2021

Scaling up effective language interventions in inner city schools in Brazil
Principal Investigator Dianne Newbury. Faculty of HLS with colleagues from the University of Oxford and the Universidade Federal De Sao Paulo (OBU share of British academy funding £82,294)