By Professor Stuart Taberner
Professor Stuart Taberner
The biggest problems facing the world today will not be solved by
researchers from a single discipline, a single university, or even a single
continent.
The key is collaboration, where researchers can come
together and share ideas about how to resolve those intractable issues that
shorten lives, hold back economic development and impact on wellbeing: climate change, food security, disease and rebuilding
communities ravaged by conflict.
If we as academics want to make a real change, we need to
forge links with colleagues outside of our own disciplines and across borders.
That’s why I will be in Ghana in just under two weeks’ time
– to meet academics from the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) to
discuss future research partnerships.
