Get involved: frameworks for agricultural innovation research project
24th August 2020
“Frameworks for agricultural innovation” is a new research project, undertaken by The CONNECTED Virus Network. It analyses what steps are most effective at turning scientific discoveries in the lab into real changes that have a positive impact on farmers’ working lives in sub-Saharan…
‘Springboard to Impact’ Virtual Conference
1st August 2020
Mon 21 September – Friday 2 October 2020 A virtual conference of presentations, workshops and networking, offering delegates two weeks of Consolidation Collaboration, and Continuation The CONNECTED Network has been planning alternative delivery of what was originally due to be an in-person conference.…
Huge demand for innovative communications coaching
23rd July 2020
More than 100 researchers from 27 countries were able to take part in a series of innovative science communication coaching sessions delivered by The CONNECTED Network. Three different coaching sessions, delivered by Zoom video-conference, were run by the network, each on three separate…
Laboratory learning visit funded by CONNECTED
15th June 2020
This blog is written by Anthony Mabele, a part-time Tutorial Fellow, part-time Senior Technician and PhD Student in Crop Protection (Molecular Plant Virology) at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya. He successfully applied for a CONNECTED Training Voucher for a…
A new era for food and climate: Driving transformative actions
11th June 2020
A global event to spark action to transform food systems to avert a food and climate crisis in the time of COVID-19 A new era for food and climate: Driving transformative actions is a full-day, around-the-world virtual relay event that starts in Australia…
Student animators tell the story behind new plant health film
4th June 2020
Julia Vaccina Makar and Kye Ottley are second year BA (Hons) Animation students at The University of The West of England (UWE). As part of the course, students have the opportunity to become involved in a ‘live brief’ – working with actual clients…
New animated film marks International Year of Plant Health 2020
21st May 2020
Diseases that devastate African communities are the focus of a brand new short animated film launched by The CONNECTED Virus Network, based at The Universities of Bristol and Newcastle, UK. The network’s focus is bringing together world-class researchers to find ways of tackling…
Reflections on a bioinformatics training course funded by CONNECTED
14th May 2020
Rose Tafadzwa Masekesa is a CONNECTED network member who wrote this blog having successfully applied for CONNECTED funding to attend a bioinformatics course which began in January 2020 at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. As an avid molecular virologist, my passions lie…
Innovative science communication coaching by video conference
16th March 2020
19 early career researcher network members in 10 countries have taken part in, or been awarded places to, innovative science communication coaching sessions delivered by video-conference. The CONNECTED Network piloted the sessions in January 2020 and, following positive feedback from participants (see below),…
Network members funded to attend bioinformatics training
27th February 2020
Meet two of our network members who successfully applied for CONNECTED funding to attend a leading bioinformatics course at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala: • Rose Tafadzwa Masekesa from The University of Zimbabwe, and• Leke Walter Nkeabeng from The Institute of Agricultural Research…