博士培训,支持非洲可持续的土壤地球化学研究。

IF 3.6 3区 生物学 Q1 BIOLOGY
Interface Focus Pub Date : 2024-08-09 eCollection Date: 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1098/rsfs.2023.0058
M G Manzeke-Kangara, I S Ligowe, B Kaninga, P Nalivata, V Kabambe, E Mbewe, B H Chishala, G M Sakala, P Mapfumo, F Mtambanengwe, T Tendayi, A Murwira, A D C Chilimba, F P Phiri, E L Ander, E H Bailey, R M Lark, K Millar, M J Watts, S D Young, M R Broadley
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由于许多领域缺乏研究人员和资金不足等各种原因,非洲的科研潜力尚未得到发挥。通过在非洲高等教育机构(HEIs)开展博士生培训计划来加强研究能力,包括与国家、地区和国际研究机构开展合作,可以促进自力更生和可持续的研究,从而支持社会经济发展。2012 年,英国皇家学会和英国国际发展部(现为外交、联邦和发展办公室)启动了非洲能力建设倡议(ACBI)博士培训网络,旨在加强撒哈拉以南非洲地区的研究能力和培训。非洲能力建设倡议为 30 个核心博士奖学金项目提供了支持,这些项目均在非洲高等院校注册/接受指导,并由英国研究所提供咨询支持。我们的 "土壤地球化学为农业和卫生政策提供信息 "联合项目是 ACBI 博士培训计划网络的一部分,于 2014 年至 2020 年期间在马拉维、赞比亚和津巴布韦实施。该联合项目旨在探索土壤地球化学、农业和公共卫生之间的联系,以提高作物产量、营养和食品系统安全,并支持更广泛的土壤科学培训和研究活动。我们的合作项目重点包括(i) 就土壤、作物和人类营养之间的联系提出了新的科学证据;(ii) 确保开展新项目,将科学转化为政策和实践;(iii) 保持整个联盟的可持续合作学习。我们的联盟提供了高质量的科学成果,并从各种来源获得了新的研究和博士培训资金,以确保研究和培训活动的继续。例如,"全球挑战研究资助转化奖 "后续项目为津巴布韦 5 岁以下儿童和育龄妇女普遍缺乏营养提供了强有力的证据基础。这一新证据将有助于设计和实施一项具有全国代表性的微营养素调查,作为卫生和儿童保育部开展的津巴布韦人口与健康调查的一个组成部分。该奖项还提供了新的证据和路线图,以便通过津巴布韦高等教育委员会领导的博士培训景观活动,创建高质量的创新型博士学位。尽管我们的项目和更广泛的 ACBI 为提高该地区研究的自立性和可持续性做出了贡献,但许多挑战依然存在,需要持续投资。
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Doctoral training to support sustainable soil geochemistry research in Africa.

Africa's potential for scientific research is not yet being realized, for various reasons including a lack of researchers in many fields and insufficient funding. Strengthened research capacity through doctoral training programmes in higher education institutes (HEIs) in Africa, to include collaboration with national, regional and international research institutions, can facilitate self-reliant and sustainable research to support socio-economic development. In 2012, the Royal Society and the UK's Department for International Development (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) launched the Africa Capacity Building Initiative (ACBI) Doctoral Training Network which aimed to strengthen research capacity and training across sub-Saharan Africa. The ACBI supported 30 core PhD scholarships, all registered/supervised within African HEIs with advisory support from the UK-based institutes. Our 'Soil geochemistry to inform agriculture and health policies' consortium project, which was part of the ACBI doctoral training programme network, was implemented in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe between 2014 and 2020. The aims of our consortium were to explore linkages between soil geochemistry, agriculture and public health for increased crop productivity, nutrition and safety of food systems and support wider training and research activities in soil science. Highlights from our consortium included: (i) the generation of new scientific evidence on linkages between soils, crops and human nutrition; (ii) securing new projects to translate science into policy and practice; and (iii) maintaining sustainable collaborative learning across the consortium. Our consortium delivered high-quality science outputs and secured new research and doctoral training funding from a variety of sources to ensure the continuation of research and training activities. For example, follow-on Global Challenges Research Funded Translation Award provided a strong evidence base on the prevalence of deficiencies in children under 5 years of age and women of reproductive age in Zimbabwe. This new evidence will contribute towards the design and implementation of a nationally representative micronutrient survey as an integral part of the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys conducted by the Ministry of Health and Child Care. The award also generated new evidence and a road map for creating quality innovative doctorates through a doctoral training landscape activity led by the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education. Although our project and the wider ACBI has contributed to increasing the self-reliance and sustainability of research within the region, many challenges remain and ongoing investment is required.

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期刊介绍: Each Interface Focus themed issue is devoted to a particular subject at the interface of the physical and life sciences. Formed of high-quality articles, they aim to facilitate cross-disciplinary research across this traditional divide by acting as a forum accessible to all. Topics may be newly emerging areas of research or dynamic aspects of more established fields. Organisers of each Interface Focus are strongly encouraged to contextualise the journal within their chosen subject.
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