Working together for a better future
Our Global Academies focus on collaborative action to deliver global impact on some of the greatest challenges facing us today.
Global Health Academy
The Global Health Academy works at the epicentre of global health challenges across the world. It aims to improve global health and make life better through collaborative, interdisciplinary research, education and resource development. It provides a framework for education that strengthens global health resources and knowledge.
Scholarships are available to study with the Global Health Academy
Global Health Academy
Global Justice Academy
The Global Justice Academy is an interdisciplinary network that supports research, teaching and knowledge exchange on global justice issues. It aims to build on, consolidate and expand the work of existing centres and collaborations at the University of Edinburgh.
Global Justice Academy
Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security
The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security works to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of agri-food systems - vital to tackling the challenges of global population growth, rapid urbanisation, food and environmental security, and diet and health, and central to many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security
Global Development Academy
The Global Development Academy brings together teaching, research and partnerships to make practical and intellectual contributions to international development. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they aim to transform the world through impactful research, partnership growth and training programmes.
Scholarships are available to study with the Global Development Academy
Global Development Academy
Global Environment & Society Academy
The Global Environment and Society Academy tackles global environmental challenges through teaching, research and outreach. They are a network of experts who collaborate on innovative solutions for global environmental challenges. They recognise the need for mechanisms that enable positive impact within our changing world.
Scholarships are available to study with the Global Environment and Society Academy
Global Environment & Society Academy
Global Justice Blog
The Future of Pan-Africanism
A report from The Future of Pan-Africanism event, hosted recently in Edinburgh, that received funding from the Global Justice and Global Development academies’ joint Innovative Initiative Fund.
Global Health Blog
If somebody had a crystal ball: the paradox of a self-defeating health policy – Dudzai Mureyi
Dudzai Mureyi is a first year PhD student on the Global eHealth programme at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Dr Claudia Pagliari (eHealth Research Group) and Dr Raluca Bunduchi (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group).
Global Academy of Agriculture & Food Security Blog
Agriculture workshop examines drone use to boost harvests
International agriculture experts took part in a workshop in Kenya to examine how drones and other remote sensing tools may be able to help farmers make better use of their land.
Global Development Blog
Let there be light
The large southern city of Bangalore has become a globally recognised symbol for Indian economic resurgence, and as the national centre for technological commerce it has been coined ‘the Silicon-Valley of India’.
Global Environment and Society Academy Blog
Creating space for ‘failure’ in policy development – a look at the use of evaluation in Scotland’s Energy Efficiency Programme pilots
The publication of the Scottish Government’s Draft Climate Change Plan is another stark reminder of the scale and pace of change that is needed to be in with a chance of mitigating the most dangerous effects of climate change.