The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is a world-leading research university network, that tackles global challenges through international collaboration. 

The Research Development Fund provides grants of up to £10,000 to foster research collaborations among academic staff members at WUN partner universities.

The RDF supports research projects directed at problems that lie within the network’s principal research theme of sustainable development, and on which a diverse team of collaborating partners confers distinct advantage. These will often be problems where comparative analysis is important.