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A convening platform to promote and support the College's sustainable development research, education and innovation 

Global Development Hub Newsletter

Compiles information on:

  • Upcoming Events and Community Building
  • Research and Impact
  • Education, Training and Capacity Building
  • Global Engagement

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Imperial College London has considerable convening power as one of the world’s leading universities of science, technology, engineering and medicine with students, staff and alumni from across 192 countries.

The Global Development Hub is an academic strategy flagship project that brings together Imperial’s community to develop, amplify and support research and education impact in Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

The Hub supports Imperial's contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Agenda 2030, and our work more broadly with some of the most vulnerable and marginalised in societies where multiple global challenges are acutely concentrated. 

Research
The Hub supports the building of equitable partnerships to support research impact in a global development context. We offer a community-building network to support new multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research partnerships focused on global development challenges, bringing together academia, government/policymakers, NGOs, civil society and industry.

Education
The Hub develops and pilots coordinated education activities for global development, that will be co-created with partners in Lower Middle Income Countries.  Programmes will seek to develop solutions for locally formulated challenges and embed research and innovation skills with global relevance. We offer a platform to support education and student experience at Imperial, linking to and developing programmes that instil in students a passion for sustainable development and the skills and thinking needed to rise the challenge of the UN SDGs and the legacy beyond them.

Innovation
The Hub seeks to co-design and co-deliver a series of Enterprise Lab affiliate programmes in Lower Middle Income Countries, with a specific initial focus on partners in Africa.  We offer a series of SDG-focused access points to the research and innovation ecosystem at Imperial, covering dozens of research centres of excellence and profiling the mission-driven start-ups, SMEs and industry research centres constantly emerging from our labs, hackspaces and incubators.

The Hub's strategy and activity is guided by an Academic Advisory Group made up of colleagues from across all sections of the College and led by two Academic Chairs.  The Hub is supported and co-ordinated by the College's International Relations Office.