In 2024, Tohoku University and University College London (UCL) will support six collaborative research projects through their matching fund.
The matching fund was established by UCL and Tohoku University following the conclusion of an agreement between the two universities to promote and encourage joint research. The first call for projects to be supported by the fund was made in June 2019.
There were 12 applications for funding in the 6th round. Following a joint review carried out by the two universities, the following 6 interdisciplinary joint research projects have been approved.
The fund will provide financial support to the 6 projects for up to one academic year beginning in April 2024.
| Research Areas | UCL Lead | Tohoku University Lead | Project |
| EDI/DEI, Education | Professor
Lynn Ang (Institute of Education (IOE)) |
Professor
SUEMATSU, Kazuko ( Institute for Excellence in Higher Education) |
Responding to the institutional challenge of delivering research excellence within an inclusive, diverse and equitable research culture in higher education. |
| Brain Science, Neuroscience, Disaster Science, Machine Learning, AI, Big Data, Psychiatry,
Population Health |
Professor
Sven Bestmann (Brain Sciences) |
Professor
TOMITA, Hiroaki (Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo)) |
A joint UCL, Tohoku University and ToMMo symposium and workshop |
| Disaster Science, Education | Professor
Joanna Faure Walker (Maths & Physical Sciences) |
Associate Prof.
SUPPASRI, Anawat ( International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) ) |
Initiation of Double PhD Programme between UCL and Tohuku University in
Disaster Science |
| Sense of Smell, Health and Social Care, Computer Science, Electrical Communication | Professor
Marianna Obrist (Engineering Sciences) |
Professor
KITAMURA Yoshifumi (Research Institute of Electrical Communication) |
A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Potential of the Sense of Smell for Health
and Wellbeing |
| Language Education, Neuroscience | Professor
Kazuya Saito (Institute of Education (IOE)) |
Professor
SUGIURA, Motoaki (Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer) |
Sustaining Multilingual Children’ Well-Being Through AI-Based Brain and Language Training: A Pathway to Academic and Business Expansion |
| Disaster Science, Citizen Science, Gender and Disasters, Culture and Disasters | Associate Professor
Punam Yadav (Maths & Physical Sciences) |
Assistant Professor
KITAMURA, Miwako (International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) ) |
Significance of Women’s Leadership for DRR: a case of Northern Japan post 2011 Tsunami |
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