Our Engagement with Brazil Nosso Compromisso Com O Brasil 2 a STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Our engagement with Brazil Nosso compromisso com o Brasil 2 A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

A strategic partnership Our engagement with Brazil

The University of Birmingham and The University We continue to support development and of Nottingham first embarked on a strategic collaboration with leading universities and ‘Our landmark collaboration has already partnership in February 2011, combining key public and private sector organisations enabled us to strengthen our research and strengths in international activity to enhance in Brazil and are jointly investing £4 million in teaching, share and develop innovations, both universities’ global impact. The partnership our engagement with Brazil over three years. and diversify income streams. Our strong unites two leading, research-intensive UK We have launched a joint representative office partnership is delivering strategic universities with global reach, with a combined in Brazil, and established a joint investment advantages and enables us to collaborate annual turnover of over £1 billion; a combined fund worth £480,000 with the State of São in areas where it is mutually beneficial, annual research income in excess of £300 Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and while we continue to work closely with million; campuses in China and Malaysia and launched a visiting fellows scheme, all intended other leading institutions.’ regional offices in Delhi, Shanghai, Santa to promote collaborative research between Catarina, Nigeria, Ghana and Brussels. Brazil, Birmingham and Nottingham. Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of the University Given the notable quality and ambition of To date, we have enrolled more than 100 of Birmingham Brazilian universities and a strong and growing students through the Science without Borders economy, both universities recognised the scheme, launched in 2012, and as part of our potential to enhance research connections and scholarship agreements with funding councils, develop mutually beneficial partnerships with CAPES and CNPq, we have welcomed more the leading Brazilian institutions, including: than 25 PhD students to our campuses. Our n Long-term research collaborations successful Visiting Fellows scheme has also ‘The framework for collaboration between n Researcher mobility welcomed more than 25 fellows in its first two our two universities has focused and n Doctoral training years and we continue to attract increasing expanded some pre-existing links and n Educational collaboration and mobility numbers of postgraduate and undergraduate provided a foundation for new ones. Our of staff and students students from Brazil to our campuses. partnership has recognised each other’s n Interactions with industry in both strengths and used them to leverage and Brazil and Europe to enhance research Our joint approach offers us a unique position exploit new opportunities, whilst n Business engagement and that has been praised by UK organisations maintaining our distinct identities.’ knowledge transfer such as UKTI and the British Embassy. Our Brazilian partners are also able to link to two Professor David Greenaway, The combined strength and resource of the two leading UK universities, both in the top 75 of Vice-Chancellor of The University institutions has enabled us to make significant the QS Global University Rankings. of Nottingham progress in the space of just two years. A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 3

Uma parceria estratégica Nosso compromisso com o Brasil

A Universidade de Birmingham e a Nós continuamos a apoiar o desenvolvimento Universidade de Nottingham embarcaram e a colaboração com universidades ‘Nossa marcante colaboração já nos inicialmente em uma parceria estratégica em proeminentes e organizações importantes permitiu reforçar a pesquisa e o ensino, fevereiro de 2011, juntando forças nas dos setores público e privado no Brasil e compartilhar e desenvolver inovações e atividades internacionais para ampliar o estamos, conjuntamente, investindo £4 milhões diversificar fontes de financiamento. Nossa impacto global de ambas as instituições. A em nosso compromisso com o país ao longo forte parceria está facilitando vantagens parceria uniu duas universidades britânicas de de três anos. Abrimos um escritório de estratégicas e nos permite colaborar em liderança e de pesquisa intensiva com alcance representação no Brasil, estabelecemos áreas onde há benefício mútuo, enquanto global, movimentação anual somada de mais um fundo de investimento combinado no continuamos a trabalhar de perto com de £1bilhão, rendimento combinado em valor de £480,000 com a Fundação de outras instituições proeminentes.’ pesquisa acima de £300 milhões por ano, Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo campi na China e na Malásia e escritórios (FAPESP) e lançamos um esquema de Professor David Eastwood, regionais em Delhi, Xangai, Santa Catarina, Pesquisadores Visitantes, tudo com a intenção Reitor da Universidade de Birmingham Nigéria, Gana e Bruxelas. de promover a pesquisa colaborativa entre Brasil, Birmingham e Nottingham. Dada a qualidade notável e a ambição das universidades brasileira e a economia forte Até o momento, matriculamos mais de 100 e crescente, ambas as universidades estudantes por meio do programa Ciência reconheceram o potencial para ampliar os Sem Fronteiras, lançado em 2012, e, como ‘O sistema de colaboração entre nossas contatos em pesquisa e desenvolver parcerias parte de nosso acordo de bolsas com as duas Universidades tem focado e de benefício mútuo com as principais instituições de financiamento CAPES e CNPq, expandido alguns vínculos pré-existentes instituições brasileiras, incluindo: demos boas-vindas a mais de 25 estudantes e proporcionado uma base para outros n colaborações de longo prazo em pesquisa de doutorado em nossos campi. Nosso exitoso novos. Nossa parceria tem reconhecido n mobilidade ao pesquisador esquema de Pesquisadores Visitantes também as qualidades das duas instituições e as n treinamento de doutorado recebeu mais de 25 acadêmicos em seus dois usado para alavancar e explorar novas n colaboração em educação e mobilidade primeiros anos, e continuamos a atrair um oportunidades, enquanto mantemos de equipe e de estudantes número crescente de estudantes de graduação nossas distintas identidades.’ n interações com a indústria no Brasil e na e pós-graduação do Brasil para nossos campi. Europa para ampliação de pesquisa Professor David Greenaway, n engajamento em negócios e troca de A abordagem conjunta nos oferece uma Reitor da Universidade de Nottingham conhecimento posição única, elogiada por organizações britânicas como UKTI e Embaixada Britânica. A força e o recurso combinados das duas Nossos parceiros brasileiros também estão instituições nos permitiu fazer um progresso aptos a se ligarem a duas das principais significativo em um período de apenas universidades do Reino Unido, ambas no dois anos. top 75 dos QS Global University Rankings. 4 A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Key initiatives

Two Brazil Visiting Fellows, Samira Jalil and Flávia Rodrigues

We are working in close co-operation to PhD scholarship scheme for implement a number of new initiatives to academic excellence support enhanced research collaboration This provides 20 full-fee scholarships per ‘The Universities of Birmingham and and engagement in Brazil. These include: annum over three years with living and travel Nottingham have showed imagination costs provided by the Brazilian funding and determination in seeking to create and Academic workshops council CAPES. deepen partnerships in Brazil, keeping in A series of joint workshops on themes such as close touch with the British Embassy. The oil and gas, bio-energy, sporting mega-events Subject areas have included energy, opportunities in Brazil are considerable but and public accountancy has taken place food security, globalisation, neuroscience, not easy to translate into concrete results. with many more planned, including corpus astronomy, the digital economy, and global Birmingham and Nottingham are linguistics; biomaterials; head and infection and health care. Scholarships are developing the long-term connections neck cancer; MRI and food security. open to all disciplines. which are essential to success.’

Brazil Visiting Fellows Scheme Joint research fund with FAPESP Alan Charlton, former HM Ambassador This scheme provides 20 early-career We have established a joint investment fund to Brazil. university lecturers or post-doctoral worth £480,000 with the State of São Paulo researchers per annum the opportunity to Research Foundation (FAPESP) supporting spend three months at either the University research projects between FAPESP-funded of Birmingham or Nottingham carrying out researchers and academics from Birmingham identified research projects. and Nottingham. A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 5

Contacts Our partnership in numbers Patricia Borsa Malcolm Press n A joint operating budget close International Relations Office, Brazil, University Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and to £1 billion of Birmingham and University of Nottingham Knowledge Transfer), Academic lead n Joint research income of £300 million Email: [email protected] or for Brazil, University of Birmingham per year [email protected] Email: [email protected] n 70,000 students across our campuses, of which over 25,000 Andréa Edwards Saul Becker are non-UK nationals Director International Development, Assistant Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) n In the top 1% of universities worldwide Strategic lead for Brazil, for the Americas, The University of Nottingham n In the top 75 of the QS Global University of Birmingham Email: [email protected] University Rankings Email: [email protected] n 31% of our academic staff non-UK nationals 6 A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Our current activity

Science without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) Students throughout Brazil will have Both Birmingham and Nottingham are unprecedented access to geospatial delighted to be two of the UK institutions technology, thanks to a joint collaboration selected to participate in the Science without between the University of Nottingham, Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) scheme. Universidade Federal do Paraná and the Brazilian government funding enables students Universidade Estadual Paulista, as part of in certain subject areas to spend 12 months in the ICA-OSGeo initiative. the UK as part of their degree at a Brazilian university; undergraduates spend nine months With education aims at the heart of this studying followed by a three-month laboratory initiative, the use of free, open geospatial Science without Borders students at a placement. Funding is also available for software will enable students from all University of Birmingham event sandwich or full PhD studies in the UK. backgrounds to get the latest desktop and web applications, bringing the world of geospatial education to their fingertips. Olivier Hanotte, Professor The team will also start work on ‘Train the of Genetics and Conservation Trainer’ geographical information systems at The University of (GIS) programmes for school teachers all over the world, including Brazil. Nottingham, won funding to look into an area of The Nottingham Geospatial Institute importance for food security is a world-renowned research centre specialising in satellite navigation and Jonathan Grix (Director, Centre for Policy in Brazil. Professor Hanotte positioning systems, photogrammetry, Research in Sport) Andre Arantes and Zena remote sensing, sensor integration and GIS. will work with Brazilian Wooldridge (Director, UBSport) colleagues to examine The University of Nottingham established Birmingham is a leading UK university in the first Open Source Geospatial Lab in the the way in which cattle sport, exercise and health – ranked first for UK following an agreement with the Open can adapt to different research – making us an ideal partner for Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Brazil, one of the world’s great sporting tropical environments and nations. Birmingham is currently advising The Nottingham Geospatial Institute the fitness of hybrid cattle. and working with the Ministry of Sport on This will eventually lead to a the development of their school sports policy and Olympic legacy strategies in this area. strategy for cross-breeding programmes, with The School of Sport, Exercise and implications for farmers Rehabilitation Sciences (SportEx) and, in particular, the new Centre for Policy Research and food producers. in Sport, is in regular contact with key actors from the Ministry, recently hosting a visit from Andre Arantes, Director of Basis Sport and High Performance in September 2013. A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 7

Research as part of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation investment Academics from both universities have won funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to undertake research into priority areas spanning the sciences, social sciences and humanities. FAPESP hopes that these projects will have the potential to spawn future collaborations between researchers in both countries.

Working with academic peers from institutions Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Brazil’s rise and its implications for from across the State of São Paulo, the scope Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was world order of the joint research includes: invented at Nottingham, for which Sir Peter Dr Marco Vieira is the principal investigator Mansfield was jointly awarded the Nobel in a FAPESP/Birmingham-funded research Prize for Medicine in 2003. The Sir Peter project on Brazil’s rise and its implications Urban water quality management Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre is for world order. This project will look at As urban populations rise and rainfall a world-leading centre for the continuing the manifold dimensions of Brazil’s political patterns change, the demands and pressures development of MRI, and is the UK leadership on the world stage and how increase on fresh water supplies and the centre for ultrahigh-field MRI. MRI has it might influence and re-shape natural environment. This project aims to revolutionised diagnostic medicine, international relations. identify these future pressures and solve the with more than 26 million investigative key issues in water quality management. procedures carried out each year. Brazil Dr Vieira has solid and ongoing links with is now putting similar facilities in place and renowned higher education institutions in the teams in São Paulo, Nottingham and Brazil such as the Department of Political Birmingham will share expertise and Science at the University of Sao Paulo and develop techniques on functional brain the Institute of International Relations at the imaging to gain new insights on Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His neurodegenerative and other brain research has had a clear impact on global diseases, leading to better treatment policy and academic debates on rising for these diseases. powers’ influence, particularly through his work on south-south groupings, such as the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA). Developing quantum sensors for precision positioning and underground mapping Working with the Brazilian team, who already have world-class facilities in place for the Hanshan Dong, Professor of study of ‘ultra-cold atoms’, the combined Surface Engineering at the international expertise will develop new University of Birmingham, has applications in underground mapping, for processes such as mineral exploration. secured funding to work with Brazilian partners on a project to improve the surface

Fear memory processing and associated properties of stainless steel brain function used in the oil/gas industries The three research teams will identify how through plasma assisted chemicals in the brain affect moods, which will lead to discovering new medications to thermochemical treatment. prevent anxiety and depression. 8 A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Profiles of our representatives

The University of Nottingham

and/or the establishment and further development of spin-out companies Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor, including Azotic Technologies Ltd. He has acted as non-executive director The University of Nottingham of university spin-out companies. His close involvement in the initiation and management of major institutional research bids which have a strong Professor David Greenaway became element of knowledge transfer has led to awards totalling over £25 million. Vice-Chancellor of The University of Nottingham in October 2008. Professor Greenaway is an Dr Maeve Fitzpatrick Economist who was Chairman of the Armed Forces’ Pay Review Dr Maeve Fitzpatrick joined The University of Body (2004–2010). He was also a Member of the Senior Salaries Nottingham in March of this year in the newly Review Body (2004–2010). Other appointments have included non- created role of Research Development Manager executive positions on National Health Service Boards and advisory for the Americas. Prior to joining Nottingham, positions to various government departments. He has also acted Maeve worked for the University of Limerick where as a consultant to the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic she lectured in Operations Engineering and was responsible for research Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Commission, development for the centre for Enterprise Research. During these five the United Nations, and HM Treasury. years, while completing her PhD in Systems implementation, she was awarded 7.8 million Euro in government and EU research grants in Professor Greenaway is a member of the UK government’s Higher both Education and Innovation. Education Task Force and its Asia Task Force. He is currently leading a major independent review of UK postgraduate medical education Prior to joining the University of Limerick, Maeve worked full time for more and training. than ten years in international engineering and systems management roles for organisations including Dell Computers, Honeywell and United Professor Greenaway’s research interests are in the area of Technologies Corporation. international trade and cross-border investment. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in refereed journals and authored Dr Marcos Alcocer or edited 40 books. He has served on three Research Assessment Dr Marcos Alcocer is Brazilian, and completed his Panels (chairing two) for Economics and Econometrics; served on Pharmaceutical Sciences degree and MSc at the the Council of ESRC; and on the Council and Executive of the University of Sao Paulo, where he worked for two Royal Economic Society. years as a lecturer.

After eight years working in the food industry, Dr Alcocer moved to the Professor Saul Becker UK to complete his PhD. After working for the Food Research Institute Professor Saul Becker is Assistant Pro-Vice- and John Innes Centre, Dr Alcocer moved to Nottingham and now Chancellor (International) for the Americas at the bases his group at the School of Biosciences. University of Nottingham. He was formerly Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy Dr Alcocer has authored more than 50 peer reviewed research papers on at Nottingham; Professor of Health and Social food allergy, is editor of several scientific journals and is currently setting Care at the University of Birmingham; and Professor of Social Policy up a spin-off company on diagnostic systems for allergy. at Loughborough University, UK. He has over 500 publications and conference papers and is regarded internationally as the world’s leading Dr Hervé Morvan authority on ‘young carers’ – children who provide unpaid care to other Dr Hervé Morvan is the Director of Research for the family members, usually parents, who are ill, disabled or have other Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT) and also health and supervision needs. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy the Head of Fluids and Deputy-Director for the of Social Sciences and of the Royal Society of Arts. Rolls-Royce Transmissions UTC. He has worked across industry and academia over the years, Dr Alan Burbidge including as a specialist seconded to Rolls-Royce (full-time and on a one- Dr Alan Burbidge trained as an ecologist and day-a-week basis) and as Speedo’s Aqualab CFD advisor for the last two spent 12 years in academic research as a plant Olympics, where he is associated with the success of their LZR Racer suit. molecular geneticist. Since 2003, he has managed He has authored over 120 research papers and technical reports, and has the commercialization of life sciences technologies received over £8 million in research contracts (personal share). His wife developed at the University of Nottingham. He has a is a Paulistana. strong track record in evaluating new technologies, securing development and investment funding, culminating in the negotiation of licence deals A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 9

University of Birmingham

Andréa Edwards Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor, Andréa is Director International Development and University of Birmingham Mobility at the University of Birmingham, where she Professor David Eastwood became Vice- has responsibility for leading the University’s global Chancellor of the University of Birmingham in engagement in key regions, including the Americas, April 2009. He was previously Chief Executive with one of the largest UK higher education teams of the Higher Education Funding Council for responsible for international partnership development and student mobility. England (HEFCE) and former posts include Vice-Chancellor of She has over 18 years’ experience of working in higher education, initially the University of East Anglia and Chief Executive of the Arts and within UK and international student recruitment, before focusing on Humanities Research Board. partnerships, development and international relations more broadly.

He was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Pembroke College (1988–1995) Kate Jermey and is now an Honorary Fellow of both St Peter’s College, Oxford, Kate has worked at Birmingham for eight years from where he graduated in 1980; Keble College, Oxford, where he in an outward-facing role, to engage and encourage was a Research Fellow from 1983 to 1987; and also the University companies, primarily SMEs, to work with the of Swansea. Since 1991 Professor Eastwood has been a Fellow University. Kate employs a variety of mechanisms, of the Royal Historical Society, in the past serving as its Literary including academic consultancy, research Director and as chair of its Studies in History Board. programmes and student engagement, working with colleagues internally to promote Business Engagement activities. Kate also works with external He is currently Chair of the Russell Group, a Board Member funding bodies such as the Technology Strategy Board and with of Universities UK (UUK), a member of the Arts and Humanities intermediary organisations, such as the Manufacturing Advisory Service Research Council (AHRC), and a member of the Advisory Board (MAS), to source funding – and promote to SMEs – in order to support of the Higher Education Policy Institute. Business Engagement projects.

He is also a Board Member of Marketing Birmingham and, in Dr Paul Thompson January 2012, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the county Dr Thompson is the Director of the Centre for of West Midlands. Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are in: academic and other specialised discourses; the linguistic aspects of Professor Malcolm Press human-computer interaction; uses of educational Professor Malcolm Press was appointed as the technologies in language learning; and the exploitation of corpus University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and resources and methodologies in teaching and learning about language. Knowledge Transfer in 2013. He is a member of He is currently leading an ESRC-funded project entitled ‘Investigating the University Executive Board and leads on Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: the Case of Global Environmental research, knowledge transfer and business Change’ which is conducted in partnership with the international scientific engagement. His roles include Chair of the Research and Knowledge publisher, Elsevier. In previous projects, he was involved in the Transfer Committee, Chair of the International Board, and Director of development of two corpora of academic discourse, the British the Institute of Advanced Studies. Academic Spoken English (BASE) and British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpora. Malcolm graduated from the University of London in 1980 before going on to complete a PhD in Physiological Ecology at the University of Manchester in 1984.

He joined the University of Birmingham in 2008 as a Pro-Vice- Chancellor and inaugural Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, having previously spent six years at Sheffield as Head of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences and University Director of Research for the Environment. 10 A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Profiles of our representatives

Dr Owen Addison Professor Paul Jackson Dr Addison is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Paul is a political scientist at the University of in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Birmingham, interested in the destruction and Birmingham. He holds a prestigious National reconstruction of states, particularly in Africa. He is Institute for Health Research, Clinician Scientist an experienced aid evaluator as well as governance Award and his time is divided between specialist and conflict analyst. Much of his research focuses clinical care and research. His research is in on decentralisation, governance and state building. biomaterials and biomedical engineering and extends from the basic sciences to clinical studies. He has received in excess of £1.25 million Paul works in several overseas locations including Rwanda, Uganda, in the past three years for research into implanted biomaterials. In 2013 Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Bhutan, India, Nepal and China among he was awarded the IADR/Academy of Osseointegration prize for others. He is currently the international adviser to the Nepali Government innovation in implant sciences. Dr Addison is actively engaging with on the reintegration of the Maoist Army following ten years of civil war in Brazilian scientists with collaborative grant applications and by hosting that country and has just completed a ten-year evaluation of UK postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers. involvement in the reconstruction of Sierra Leone.

Professor Hisham Mehanna Dr Gabriela Saldanha Professor Hisham Mehanna is the Chair of Head Dr Gabriela Saldanha is a Lecturer in Translation and Neck Surgery and Director of the Institute Studies in the Department of English at the of Head and Neck Studies and Education, at University of Birmingham, where she convenes the School of Cancer Sciences, University of both the distance and on-campus programmes in Birmingham. He is also Chair of the UK’s National Translation Studies. Dr Saldanha has co-edited the Cancer Research Institute’s head and neck group. Hisham is a head second edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, and neck, and thyroid surgeon, with a keen interest in clinical and one of the most important reference works in the field of Translation translational research. Studies and has also co-authored the first reference work on research methodologies in Translation Studies, to be published in 2013. She has Hisham heads a research team of 20 researchers and holds over a strong record of publications in the field of translation stylistics. Her £9 million in research grants. The main areas of his research are Human current research explores translation flows and the reception of Papillomavirus-associated head and neck cancer, and thyroid cancer. translations in a globalised literary market. His research themes are drug development and redeployment, biomarkers of treatment response and early and late phase clinical trials. Patricia Borsa The Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham have a unique link through the joint Brazil Office in Joinville, the southern State of Santa Catarina, led by Patricia Borsa. Patricia is responsible for supporting institutional collaborations between the two universities and Brazilian partners in education, business and government.

A Brazilian national, Patricia has extensive experience of international engagement. She was appointed as the new, joint in-country officer in 2011. Prior to this role, she worked for ten years for the University of Nottingham as a recruitment officer for South America. Patricia was originally a lecturer in English and Portuguese Language before moving into product development for HSBC Bank, Brazil. A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 11

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