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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: WUN Early Career Researcher Webinar Series - Getting to grips with equitable and responsible research: An introduction to the Valuing Voices principles. Aft... In this session, we will define equitable and responsible research through five principles which have been co-developed with colleagues at the University of York and Mahidol University in Thailand. Al...

Register for the ECR webinar: ‘Getting to grips with equitable and responsible research: An introduction to the Valuing Voices principles’.

Who: WUN, ARUA, and AUN ECRs

Date & Location: 4 February 2026 via Zoom

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: WUN Early Career Researcher Webinar Series - Getting to grips with equitable and responsible research: An introduction to the Valuing Voices principles. Aft... In this session, we will define equitable and responsible research through five principles which have been co-developed with colleagues at the University of York and Mahidol University in Thailand. Al...

Join the webinar: Getting to grips with equitable and responsible research: An introduction to the Valuing Voices principles
Who: WUN, AUN, and ARUA ECRs
Date & Location: 4 February 2026 via Zoom
Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Register by 4 February 2026: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Peter Lennie at the WUN Annual General Meeting 2025

WUN thanks Professor Peter Lennie for his exemplary service as Executive Director (ED) and wishes him a happy and fulfilling retirement.

Read the full story here: wun.ac.uk/article/pete...

WUN is pleased to announce the results of the Research Development Fund (RDF) 2025 round. Thank you to all our members for making these collaborations possible. You can see the full list of successful projects: wun.ac.uk/article/wun-...

Join a webinar focused on mental health, led by a collaboration of WUN member university researchers: ‘Exploring the Social Roots of Suicide and Self-Harm'.

Date & Location: 10 December 2025 via Zoom.

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More information: wun.ac.uk/article/even...

Join WUN's ECR Webinar Series 2025

Title: Research Culture: What is it and why does it matter?
Who: WUN, AUN, and ARUA ECRs
Date & Location: 4 December 2025 via Zoom
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: WUN Early Career Researcher Webinar Series - Handling Rejection in Academia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webi... This session will help you to develop strategies to cope with rejection, reframe setbacks as learning opportunities, and maintain motivation despite challenges. You will gain practical insights into m...

There's still time for WUN, AUN, and ARUA ECRs to register for the upcoming WUN ECR webinar, titled 'Handling Rejection in Academia'.

Date & Location: 11 November 2025 via Zoom
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Register by: 10 November 2025

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Join a webinar focused on mental health, led by a collaboration of WUN member university researchers: ‘Supply-Demand Imbalance in Mental Health Services'.

Date & Location: 5 November 2025 via Zoom.

Register: universityofleeds.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

More information: wun.ac.uk/article/even...

There's still time for WUN, AUN, and ARUA ECRs to register for the upcoming WUN ECR webinar, titled 'Career Planning with Purpose'.

Date & Location: 15 October 2025 via Zoom
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Deadline to register: 14 October 2025

Join WUN's ECR Webinar Series 2025

Title: 'Career Planning with Purpose’
Who: WUN, AUN, and ARUA ECRs
Date & Location: 15 October 2025 via Zoom
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Deadline to register: 14 October 2025
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We’d like to thank and congratulate colleagues at the University of York and Maastricht University for developing and delivering such a fantastic WUN PhD Summer School, which this year focused on robotics.

You can read more about the summer school here: wun.ac.uk/article/wun-...

Join WUN's ECR Webinar Series 2025

Title: 'Get Seen: How to Create a Compelling LinkedIn Profile and Raise Your Visibility’
Who: WUN, ARUA and AUN ECRs
Date & Location: 11 September 2025 via Zoom
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Deadline to register: 10 September 2025

A WUN collaboration with the University of Leeds seeks contributors to an online research webinar series ‘Global Mental Health: Bridging Research, Innovation, and Equity’ (September 2025 to May 2026).

Read more about the call for contributors and sign up by 25 July 2025: wun.ac.uk/article/call...

There's still time to register for the upcoming ECR webinar, open to all WUN, ARUA, and AUN ECRs.

Register here: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The AGM 2025 Research Highlights session provided valuable updates and sparked opportunities for collaboration across the network. Thanks to our presenters for their showcases.

Photo credit: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thank you to the panelists and our AUN colleagues for frank and compelling conversations about leading modern research universities during our AGM 2025 Presidents Forum, titled 'Addressing the Challenges Facing Leaders of Research Universities'.

Photo credit: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

WUN Research Development Fund 2025 - WUN WUN is pleased to announce that the Research Development Fund (RDF) 2025 round is now open. In its sixteenth year, the RDF provides researchers at member universities with grants of continue reading

The Research Development Fund (RDF) 2025 round is now open, providing grants of up to £10,000. Submit applications to our online application portal by Friday 17 October 2025 at 21.00 UK time. Contact your local WUN Coordinator to apply.

Further information on the process: wun.ac.uk/article/wun-...

A Look Back at WUN AGM 2025 - WUN The WUN Annual General Meeting 2025 took place from 21-23 May in Hong Kong.  Click here for photos of the event, courtesy of our wonderful host, The Chinese University of continue reading

Thank you to CUHK for generously hosting the 2025 AGM. Marking WUN's 25th anniversary, the program included compelling and challenging discussions within our Presidents Forum, and showcasing the exciting research taking place across the network.

Photo gallery here: wun.ac.uk/article/a-lo...

WUN ECR Webinar Series 2025 - WUN Register for the upcoming webinars in WUN’s Early Career Researchers series, facilitated by the Researcher Development and Research Culture team at the University of Leeds. Who can join: All early car...

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📙 Webinar 2: What is Your Research Vision? With Dr Jim Baxter
🗓️ 9 July 2025 |⏰3–5pm | 🌏 Zoom
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Join WUN's ECR Webinar Series 2025

Title: 'Research Impact: Do we all mean the same thing?’
Who: WUN and ARUA ECRs
Date & Location: 9 July 2025 via Zoom
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Deadline to register: 8 July 2025
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The University of Queensland joins WUN - WUN The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is pleased to announce that The University of Queensland (UQ) has joined the network.   WUN warmly welcomes President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Ter...

WUN is delighted to welcome the University of Queensland to the network. The university brings distinctive strengths and enlarges opportunities for collaboration on the major global challenges that WUN is well-placed to address.

Full story here: wun.ac.uk/article/the-...

There's still time to register for the Robotics Doctoral Summer School.

Registration deadline extended to 1 June 2025. Follow this link for more information and to apply: www.york.ac.uk/maastricht/r...

Join WUN's ECR Webinar Series 2025

Title: 'Research Impact: Do we all mean the same thing?’
Who: WUN and ARUA ECRs
Date & Location: 10 June 2025 via Zoom
Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Register: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Deadline to register: 9 June 2025
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An Augmented Reality Storybook Helps Autistic Children with Social Functioning - WUN WUN-supported research has resulted in the development of a storybook that uses augmented reality to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) navigate social interactions. Some people diagnos...

WUN researchers have developed an augmented reality storybook to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) regulate their emotions and navigate social interactions. Read more here: wun.ac.uk/article/an-a...

Robotics Doctoral Summer School Shape the Future of Robotics: Ethics, Safety and Innovation.

@york.ac.uk and @maastrichtu.bsky.social are partnering to host a northern hemisphere summer school at the University of York for WUN robotics doctoral researchers in August 2025.

Follow this link for more information and to apply by 25 May 2025: www.york.ac.uk/maastricht/r...

International Research Collaboration for a Greener Planet - WUN As countries seek cleaner energy solutions, green hydrogen has emerged as a key factor in the transition to a sustainable future. Recognising the need for effective policies to support this continue r...

WUN researchers are bringing together perspectives from four continents on policies that will guide the development of the green hydrogen economy, a key factor in the transition to a sustainable future.

Read more here: wun.ac.uk/article/inte...

How Climate Change Impacts Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health: Researchers Map Evidence Gaps - WUN Researchers from WUN member universities[1] and partners studying the impact of climate change on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) have developed new tools to gui...

WUN researchers investigating the impact of climate change on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health have developed new tools to guide future funding and research policies.

Read more here: wun.ac.uk/article/how-...

Building Resilient Health Systems for Extreme Weather Emergencies - WUN Rising temperatures are leading to an increasing loss of life. Many deaths are preventable, but communities are generally unprepared to deal with extreme heat events. What are the most impactful conti...

What are the most impactful strategies a community can adopt to save lives during a heatwave?

WUN researchers at 7 member universities are working to identify and address gaps in healthcare preparedness for heat emergencies. Read more here: wun.ac.uk/article/buil...

Magnetically-Controlled Tentacle Robots for Transcatheter Structural Heart Intervention - WUN

Jon Woolfrey brings together expertise from three leading research institutes across the globe with this @wunetwork.bsky.social project; addressing the challenge of minimally-invasive cardiovascular intervention using magnetically-controlled tentacle robots 🤖 🦾.

Read more: wun.ac.uk/wun/research...