Warwick Boston Partnership
The Boston Warwick Partnership was established in 2008, with the goal of maximising the productivity and impact of both institutions through research collaborations in new and emerging disciplines. Since 2008 collaborations have broadened across a range of disciplines and now encompass all four Warwick faculties; Science, Medicine, Social Science and Arts & Humanities. The latest opportunity, resulting from this partnership, is the launch of the Boston-Warwick Strategic Funding Initiative 2010 to support joint research and educational collaborations between BU and Warwick. Professor Nigel Thrift, the Vice-Chancellor at Warwick, believes that the two universities can together achieve results that neither institution could deliver alone. "What this relationship is about," he remarked, "is deep, lasting and meaningful collaboration across the Atlantic that allows each of our universities to leverage on the strengths of the other to achieve even greater impact from its research endeavours." Warwick Boston Partnership Podcasts are a series of recordings that the digital team are capturing when academics from Boston University are visiting the Warwick campus as part of a organised partnership trip or as IAS visiting fellows. So far the recordings have covered collaborations within the politics, international studies and medicine fields with many more to follow in the future. As well as some lectures presented on campus the podcasts include conversations between academics from both universities highlighting the ways in which the partnership benefits joint research and future opportunities to work together.
The Warwick Boston Partnership - an introduction
15:42 Mon 16 Aug 2010
Professor Mark Smith, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research at Warwick, and Professor Andrei Ruckenstien, Vice President Research at Boston, discuss the partnership between the two universities.
DownloadSmarts Grids and Sustainable Energy
15:41 Mon 16 Aug 2010
At a recent complexity science workshop, Warwick and Boston University academics looked at the problems and potential of smart grids in responding to the challenge of sustainable energy supply.
DownloadContinuity in health care
16:45 Mon 16 Aug 2010
At a recent complexity science workshop, Warwick and Boston university academics discussed the issues around ensuring continuity in health care and the lessons that could be learned from research on both sides of the Atlantic.
DownloadBoston's Professor Vivien Schmidt speaks to Warwick PAIS PhD students Andrew Hammond and Ben Jacoby.
16:45 Mon 16 Aug 2010
Warwick PhD students Andrew Hammond and Ben Jacoby from the Department of Politics and International Studies interview IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Vivien Schmidt about her research in political theory.
DownloadBoston's Professor Vivien Schmidt speaks at the Warwick RIPE debate.
16:45 Mon 16 Aug 2010
The Department of Politics and International Studies hosted the third annual Warwick RIPE Debate. The main speaker at the 2010 debate was Professor Vivien Schmidt of Boston University.
DownloadBoston Prof Cathie Jo Martin talks to Warwick's Prof Wyn Grant
15:33 Mon 16 Aug 2010
IAS Visiting Fellow Prof Cathie Jo Martin, Professor of Political Science at Boston University and chair of the Council for European Studies talks to the University of Warwick's Professor Wyn Grant.
DownloadBoston Wyn Grant & Graham Wilson.mp3
15:31 Mon 16 Aug 2010
Warwick's Professor Wyn Grant and Boston University's Professor Graham Wilson discuss Politics and the Financial Crisis along with the research collaboration and partnership between the two institutions.
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