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Activities between the University of British Columbia and Exeter include a joint research symposium focused on Community, Culture, Creativity, and Wellbeing held at Exeter in May 2018 and a faculty-led, co-funded initiatives in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Climate Change and Digital Humanities.

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University of South Florida and Exeter have entered into a 5 year student exchange between the two Universities. They launched the University of Exeter / University of South Florida Research Catalyst Fund to provide grants to support joint research initiatives between the two institutions.

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The University of Exeter and Tsinghua University have launched a jointly-awarded PhD degree programme in climate and environmental sciences which supports six students to be co-supervised between Tsinghua's Department of Earth System Science and Colleges at Exeter that conduct research on earth systems and environmental sciences. Read more.

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A partnership between Exeter and HKUST will enable students embarking on Engineering or Computer Science undergraduate degrees at HKUST to finish their degree at Exeter, before spending a fifth year at Exeter's Law School, completing either an LLM (Master of Laws) or a Juris Doctor (JD). Read more.

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To celebrate, and further extend, the strong relationship of staff within the University of Exeter and the University of Geneva, the two universities have launched a new seed fund to support developing research links.

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The University of Exeter and The University of Queensland have partnered to establish the QUEX Institute, a new multi-million pound partnership designed to bolster their joint global research impact. Read more.

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Tipping points

Meet our researchers

Professor Frank van Veen

Professor of Ecology and Conservation

Professor Richard Cochrane

Associate Professor of Renewable Energy

Dr Tom Powell

A.G. Leventis Foundation Global Systems Institute Impact Fellow

Dr Mi Tian

Lecturer in Low Carbon Engineering

Professor Zhongdong Wang

Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean for College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
Professor in Electrical Power Engineering

Professor Tim Lenton

Director, Global Systems Institute

Professor Toby Pennington

Professor of Tropical Plant Diversity and Biogeography

Dr Jean-Francois Mercure

Senior Lecturer in Global Systems

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