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 Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Register by 3 December 2025: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi... wun.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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 Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Register: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Register by: 10 November 2025

🌐UOL colleagues: Register for the #WUN #EarlyCareerResearchers Webinar Series! 📙Webinar 5 ‘Handling Rejection in Academia’ with @heleddhaf.bsky.social. 🗓️11 November 2025 |⏰9:00-11:00am |🌏Zoom ⬇️Register now! buff.ly/qicbC2Y @wunetwork.bsky.social @unileedsodpl.bsky.social @unileedsglobal.bsky.social

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 Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Register: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 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 Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Register: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Deadline to register: 14 October 2025 wun.ac.uk/article/wun-...

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 Local time: lnkd.in/e5Kpdg6s Register: lnkd.in/ebMjFrzy 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.

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-...

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...

🌐 UOL colleagues: Register for the #WUN #EarlyCareerResearchers Webinar Series! 📙 Webinar 2: What is Your Research Vision? With Dr Jim Baxter 🗓️ 9 July 2025 |⏰3–5pm | 🌏 Zoom ⬇️ Register now! wun.ac.uk/article/even... @wunetwork.bsky.social @unileedsodpl.bsky.social #ResearcherDevelopment

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 Local time: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Register: wun.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Deadline to register: 8 July 2025 wun.ac.uk/article/wun-...

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 wun.ac.uk/article/wun-...

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...

@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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

The International Conference on Mindfulness-Asia Pacific (ICM-AP) 2025 will be held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 27 to 29 June 2025. For more information, to submit an abstract by 31 March 2025, and to register, please visit the ICM-AP 2025 website: icmap2025.hk

🏥Dr Sharib Ali brings together experts from universities across the @wunetwork.bsky.social to build clinical expertise & capacity in Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection; using AI for surgical training and early intervention in cancer treatment: lnkd.in/erZvHjFx @exeter.ac.uk @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social

The AGM 2025 website is now live: agm.wun.ac.uk. AGM 2025 has a compelling overall program, including our Presidents Forum, organised with the ASEAN University Network (AUN). We thank CUHK Vice-Chancellor Dennis Lo and colleagues at the university for their generosity in hosting AGM 2025.

We invite you to read our latest newsletter, which highlights examples of WUN’s distinctive international research collaborations from 2024 and looks ahead to 2025, WUN’s 25th anniversary. You can read the full newsletter here: mailchi.mp/wun/newslett...

WUN is pleased to announce the results of the Research Development Fund (RDF) 2024 round. You can see the full list of awarded projects here: wun.ac.uk/article/resu...

Earlier this year, a WUN sponsored symposium on new research directions in mental health at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social brought together 75 researchers from 14 countries. You can read more about the symposium here: wun.ac.uk/article/symp...

The final regional Symposium on Upstream Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in Nursing Practice will take place on Friday 13 December. Local times: tinyurl.com/nycwfedc Register for the event: tinyurl.com/4hpp4zx4 You can read more about the event here: tinyurl.com/46jc6ebr

How do blast waves interact with the #urban environment? A WUN-supported project aims to improve building design, #urban planning and risk assessments, and inform on-the-ground responders about how to prioritise medical resources to different parts of a blast site: youtu.be/arDvEEjJvbY?...

See how a WUN-funded international research team investigating water quality in Thailand’s Mae Klong river basin has shown how citizen engagement can enable agencies to collect better information about the quality of water: youtu.be/ZisVwTb3bSo?...

How can #mathematics education relate to #global issues? See how a WUN-funded international research team has investigated how to develop contextually relevant, quality #mathematics education for Higher Education: youtu.be/DSnOB4Nht-8?...

How can #undergraduate palliative care nursing education be improved? This WUN-funded project identified areas for reciprocal learning and education/shared learning priorities in South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, New Zealand, Canada and the UK. Find out more: wun.ac.uk/article/impr...

Could Southeast Asia’s enormous tourism industry be more #sustainable and #inclusive in a post-Covid era? Find out how the roundtable funded by WUN and hosted by Mahidol University discussed policy and strategies around tourism for people and planet: wun.ac.uk/article/sout...

What would it take to establish the recharging infrastructure for #electric vehicles? Find out more about how a research team from Tecnológico de Monterrey, the University of Sheffield and external partners are developing low-cost, high-efficiency battery charger: wun.ac.uk/article/plug...