Trinity Development Research Week

1. Trinity Development Research Week Monday 7th – Friday11th November 2011 www.tcd.ie/tidi

2. Development Research Week is supported by:

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5. Session Format • 15.00-15.05: Introduction by TIDI Chair, David Taylor • 15.05-15.15: TCD’s strategy for global engagement, Jane Ohlmeyer • 15.15-15.25: TIDI: Opportunities for Engagement, David Taylor • 15.25-15.40: Development research by faculty: Gus Bell, FEMS, Sarah Glavey, FAHSS, Helen Sheridan and Martina Hennessy, FHS • 15.40-15.55: ‘EquitAble and the Equiframe Manual’ Joanne McVeigh, Centre for Global Health • 15.55-16.10: ‘The Micro-Foundations of Development: An Exploaration of Access to Resources and the Livlihoods of the Rural Poor in Vietnam’ Carol Newman, Dept. Economics/IIIS • 16.10-16.25: ‘Sustainable Groundwater Development’ Bruce Misstear, School of Engineering • 16.25-16.40: ‘Developing Cardiac Rehabilitation in Vietnam’ Juliette Hussey, Dept. Physiotherapy • 16.40-17.00: Discussion/Q&A • 17.00: Trinity Development Research Week Launch Reception

6. How can a university change the world? The importance of research in addressing international development challenges  David Taylor, Professor of Geography, School of Natural Sciences Chair, TIDI

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8. Development interests in TCD • 100+ staff members (majority researchers) with an active interest in development • 55+ research projects • 40 courses with development content at undergraduate and postgraduate levels • Development research strengths across three faculties, including Global Health, Climate Change, Globalisation, are a key component of TCD’s research and outreach ambitions, as per the Strategic Plan 2009-2013

11. World scaled according to public health spending, 2001 http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

12. World scaled according to number of infant deaths, 2001 http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

13. World scaled according to contribution to ecological damage, 2003 http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

14. Spending on tertiary education 10 years to 2001

15. Motivation for research on international development? Why would a university want to get involved in development-related research, and why would someone want to fund a university to carry out development-related research? Necessity? Isn’t development, especially when applied to Less Developed Countries, essentially a good thing, therefore we should just get on and do it? Efficiency? Wouldn’t scarce funds be better spent on development programmes and projects that target poverty alleviation directly, rather than research? Clarity? Don’t academics just muddy the waters with their theories and findings? Impact? Don’t development-related journals generally have low impact factor scores?

16. Research is important in identifying, for example The form(s) of development desired, & their delivery Appropriate technologies – including new treatments - and their effective implementation The most appropriate techniques for acquiring information upon which to make decisions The impacts of past development interventions and support Research is also important for examining more specific questions about, for example: livelihoods and governance health and the emergence of new challenges to health changing environmental and economic conditions and their implications

17. Field-based (participatory) development research is a two-way process that is potentially rewarding to all parties – and is an important tool in identifying problems (research questions) , and possible solutions TCD MSc Environment and Development students, Rwanda, 2010

18. Will we be remembered as the generation who cared more for our banks, than for the world’s poor? UK Overseas Development Assistance (2010) = £8.5 Billion (0.57% GDP) UK bank bailout = £ 850 Billion (UK NAO, December 2009)

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20. Thank you Lake Burera, Rwanda

21. Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science (FEMS) Overview of Research related to International Development

22. Natural sciences of developing countries • Infectious diseases of poverty • Biology of pathogens causing malaria, African sleeping sickness • Epidemiology of parasitic worm diseases • Genetic susceptibility to poverty-related diseases, e.g. TB • Vector-borne diseases and climate change • Tropical ecology • Plant and animal

23. Human sciences of developing countries • Geography of Africa • Livelihoods and vulnerabilities • Conflict • IT and small business development • Economic restructuring • Waste management

24. Scientific/technological solutions for developing country problems • Clean water • Water harvesting • Solar disinfection • Attenuation of pollutants • Sustainable use of wetlands for agriculture • Appropriate ICT • Mobile communications in health & education • Virtual environments in education • Interventions for diseases • Antimalarial drug design

25. Schools and People • Genetics & Microbiology • Gus Bell • Dan Bradley • Natural Sciences • Joseph Assan • Padraig Carmody • Anna Davies • Celia Holland • Mike Jones • John Parnell • Clionadh Raleigh • David Taylor Biochemistry & Immunology David Lloyd Derek Nolan Paul Voorheis Computer Science & Statistics Jane Grimson Tim Savage Engineering Laurence Gill Paul Johnston Bruce Misstear

26. Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences • Schools involved: Business, Education, Law, Psychology, Social Sciences and Philosophy, Social Work and Social Policy, ISE • Institute for International Integration Studies • Irish Aid/HEA grant ‘Doctoral Training for Development in Africa’ • Policy Coherence for Development, Advisory Board for Irish Aid (ABIA) • Centre for Post-Conflict Justice

27. Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

28. Faculty of Health Sciences • Schools involved: Dental Science, Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmacy • The School of Medicine has agreed on four grand challenges which will contribute to the college’s overall policy of ‘sustainable society’. The third grand challenge relates to global health – To generate new approaches through research in basic science and in health systems for the management of poverty related disease at a global level.

29. School of Medicine Grand Challenges • To develop new strategies for the diagnosis and management of patients with brain disease • To develop new ways to prevent and treat obesity and its’ manifestations including in particular the inflammation-cancer sequence • To generate new approaches through research in basic science and in health systems for the management of poverty related disease at a global level • To create a new generation of tuneable anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant agents.

30. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES • INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE INTO CONVENTIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA • ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USED BY THE WEST POKOT PEOPLE IN KENYA • IN ADDITION WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPLORING PLACEMENT OPTIONS FOR CLINICAL PHARMACY STUDENTS

31. Faculty of Health Sciences • Centre for Global Health • Medicine, Psychology, Nursing, Natural Sciences • Research • APODD (African Policy on Disability and Development) – Irish Aid/HRB • Evidence Aid – Cochrane Collaboration • Equitable - Enabling universal and equitable access to healthcare for vulnerable people in resource poor settings in Africa. • STEM – Support, train and empower managers – Irish Aid/European Commission

32. Faculty of Health Sciences • Teaching • Indigo – PhD in Global Health • MSc Global Health • Global Health module for third year medical students