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The LDTRC, in collaboration with other departments at Middlesex University, has secured a British Council ISPF early career fellowships grant to support three fellows from Vietnam in project TECHLEAD – Empowering Future Innovators: Advancing Early Career Researchers through Digital Technologies Leadership.”

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Grants under the British Council ISPF fellowships programme allows fellows to collaborate internationally, and gain access to new research environments, facilities, knowledge, and expertise, to enhance the quality of their research environments and enable them to translate research and innovation into economic and societal benefit.

The Early Career Fellowship Programme focuses on the Tomorrow’s Talent ISPF theme and has the following objectives: 1) Provide the selected early career researchers with a foundation to launch their careers in research and innovation; 2) To widen participation by increasing the number of opportunities for researchers including those whose backgrounds are underrepresented in their research field, and who have not yet held a permanent research-related post or academic post with a research specific element; 3) The scheme has a focus on inclusivity: to provide up and coming researchers with a foundation to launch their careers, creating lasting benefits to the fellow and both the UK and the international partner country research communities through sustainable collaboration; and 4) Establish collaboration between hosting and sending institutions on one of the ISPF themes.

Research Areas: (but not limited to)

a) Digital twinning for: crisis and resilience, decarbonisation in transport, Net-Zero, environment, healthcare (particularly stroke care), built environments, smart manufacturing, telecommunications, energy grid, and green hydrogen.

b) Next-gen telecommunication networks: Beyond 5G and 6G, and IoT smart solutions.

c) AI and computer vision: AI in telemedicine, AI-powered nature disaster prevention, AI-enabled colour-enhanced systems for early cancer/disease detection management, AI for stroke care, and AI for infectious diseases

d) Quantum computing and cybersecurityfor digital twinning, for 5G and 6G

e) Digital technologies for governance, modelling the damage reducing effects of flood warnings, climate change, water hazards, resilience and wellbeing of communities and key livelihood systems, geomorphological response to flooding

f) Digital technologies and AI to support environmental biotechnology, microorganisms in sustainability, bioengineering, e-waste and household waste treatment and management, circular economy, wastewater surveillance, urban pollutants

g) Robotics and automation

h) Digital twin and AI to support optimisation of cognitive load humans

For more details, please see the project weblink.