York showcases international partnerships and research collaborations

Posted on Friday 6 June 2025

Professor Charlie Jeffery, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of York, joined colleagues from across the world for the event, which was hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Jeffery participated in a panel session on financial sustainability, while the gathering also heard from University of York academics, including Professor Paul Revill, from the Centre for Health Economics who is leading the Thanzi Programme, involving fellow WUN member Makerere University, Uganda.

The programme aims to improve the quality and impact of health-allocation research for populations in lower-income countries. 

Research culture

Professor Jeffery also presented the Valuing Voices for Equitable and Responsible Research project which aims to support best practice in research and research culture. 

The WUN is comprised of 24 universities, of which the University of York is a founding member and has engaged in impactful collaborations through the network for over 20 years.

The organisation is committed to international partnership and collaboration, bringing together academics from diverse geographic and cultural contexts through an annual call for seed funding awards called the Research Development Fund (RDF).  

York researchers

For 2024/25, University of York researchers were active in 21 project teams, four as principal investigator and catalysed over £460,000 in research funding.

These include a project led by Professor Andy Dougill, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, which focuses on technologies for African food system transformations.

A project led by Dr Saba Joshi, Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) seeks to investigate the everyday politics of climate change via a comparative study of environmental activism among rural women and men in the Global South.

Tomorrow's leaders

Professor Charlie Jeffery, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of York, said: “International collaboration is invaluable in today’s interconnected and uncertain world and we share a common objective with fellow WUN members to share knowledge and teach tomorrow’s future leaders so that together we can address pressing and emerging global challenges”.