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 sixth round.
Following a joint review carried out by the two universities, the following six interdisciplinary joint research projects have been approved. The fund will provide financial support to the six 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)) |
Prof. 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) |
Prof. 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 a double PhD programme in disaster science between UCL and Tohoku University |
| Sense of Smell, Health and Social Care, Computer Science, Electrical Communication | Professor Marianna Obrist (Engineering Sciences) |
Prof. 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)) |
Prof. SUGIURA, Motoaki (Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer) |
Sustaining multilingual children's 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 Prof. KITAMURA, Miwako (International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) ) |
Significance of women's leadership for DRR: the case of northern Japan post 2011 Tsunami |
| Research Areas | EDI/DEI, Education |
|---|---|
| UCL Lead | Professor Lynn Ang (Institute of Education (IOE)) |
| Tohoku University Lead | Prof. SUEMATSU, Kazuko (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education) |
| Project | Responding to the institutional challenge of delivering research excellence within an inclusive, diverse and equitable research culture in higher education. |
| Research Areas | Brain Science, Neuroscience, Disaster Science, Machine Learning, AI, Big Data, Psychiatry, Population Health |
| UCL Lead | Professor Sven Bestmann (Brain Sciences) |
| Tohoku University Lead | Prof. TOMITA, Hiroaki (Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo)) |
| Project | A joint UCL, Tohoku University and ToMMo symposium and workshop |
| Research Areas | Disaster Science, Education |
| UCL Lead | Professor Joanna Faure Walker (Maths & Physical Sciences) |
| Tohoku University Lead | Associate Prof. SUPPASRI, Anawat (International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS)) |
| Project | Initiation of a double PhD programme in disaster science between UCL and Tohoku University |
| Research Areas | Sense of Smell, Health and Social Care, Computer Science, Electrical Communication |
| UCL Lead | Professor Marianna Obrist (Engineering Sciences) |
| Tohoku University Lead | Prof. KITAMURA Yoshifumi (Research Institute of Electrical Communication) |
| Project | A cross-cultural dialogue on the potential of the sense of smell for health and wellbeing |
| Research Areas | Language Education, Neuroscience |
| UCL Lead | Professor Kazuya Saito (Institute of Education (IOE)) |
| Tohoku University Lead | Prof. SUGIURA, Motoaki (Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer) |
| Project | Sustaining multilingual children's well-being through AI-based brain and language training: a pathway to academic and business expansion |
| Research Areas | Disaster Science, Citizen Science, Gender and Disasters, Culture and Disasters |
| UCL Lead | Associate Professor Punam Yadav (Maths & Physical Sciences) |
| Tohoku University Lead | Assistant Prof. KITAMURA, Miwako (International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) ) |
| Project | Significance of women's leadership for DRR: the case of northern Japan post 2011 Tsunami |
Contact:
Global Engagement Coordination Team, Global Engagement Division
Tel: +81 22 217 6311
Email: kokusai-c
grp.tohoku.ac.jp
