The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unforeseeable disruption worldwide and forced us all to find creative alternatives to our usual ways of working. We were disappointed to be unable to host our biannual symposium in Swansea this year as planned, but despite this, we were still able to have a successful conference via online platforms. We […]
SUNRISE has been selected as a case study for an OECD report on ‘Addressing societal challenges using transdisciplinary research.’ In May 2019, Dan Sparks, Policy Manager (Global Challenges Research Fund) at UKRI, recommended SUNRISE as a potential ‘good practice’ case study for an OECD Global Science Forum project focused on analysing the theory, methods, and […]
Dr Matthew Davies has been named as an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. Dr Davies has been working with the South African University since 2009, when he first visited UKZN at the end of his PhD. He has run several events both in Swansea in Durban, mainly focusing […]
Professor Satish Ogale has joined as Director of the new Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE). RISE was started by The Chatterjee Group in Kolkata as part of their ‘Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST)’ initiative, which is a not-for-profit section 25 company to promote higher education and research in India, […]
We have received a 2019 Royal Society International Collaboration Award to print photovoltaics in Mexico using their existing screen-printing infrastructure. As part of the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF), the Royal Society award enables UK research leaders to develop international collaborations with the best researchers from around the world, to work on some of the […]
We recently gathered in Bengaluru for the fifth biannual SUNRISE Symposium. This year’s meeting saw speakers and attendees travelling all the way from Mexico and Kazakhstan as well as from across India and the UK. There was lots to discuss and plans to make for a very busy upcoming year! Day 1 The first day […]
This series of articles is a partnership between SPECIFIC, SUNRISE and the Active Building Centre. Our projects work with academic, industry and community partners in the UK and the Global South to research and develop solar technologies and to drive change in the construction industry. While our projects each have distinct objectives and approaches, our shared message is simple: […]
This series of articles is a partnership between SPECIFIC, SUNRISE and the Active Building Centre. Our projects work with academic, industry and community partners in the UK and the Global South to research and develop solar technologies and to drive change in the construction industry. While our projects each have distinct objectives and approaches, our shared message is simple: […]
SUNRISE has recently passed its second birthday as a GCRF project, and in the same month we held our fourth biannual conference! The symposium was hosted this time at the University of Oxford by Professor Henry Snaith. We were joined as usual by several of our partners across India and the UK, but this time […]
A Swansea-led project which will help communities in developing countries to generate their own solar power has been awarded £800,000 by the UK government. The money will be used to construct prototype buildings and support collaboration between experts from 5 countries: India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, South Africa, and the UK. Solar energy is crucial in the […]