'Projects end but networks persist'

"When you are working together as part of a network there is a shared sense of accountability, and in time you will be able to set agendas between countries."- Prof Mercury Shitindo, University of Zaragoza #EquitablePartnerships

Professor Leon Tickly (FBA) shares a case study of a research-intensive Northern University in one of our morning workshops.

"Research collaborations must actively redress the multiple underlying layers of power imbalances in the production of scientific knowledge."

Prof Mercury Shitindo, Executive Director of the Africa Bioethics Network (ABN), advocates for a model of ethics as shared ownership, with African institutions leading ethical governance rather than just implementing external protocols.

What would happen if global south universities were the agenda setters? We discussed how getting to this point would mean a system redesign in Prof Emmanual Ojo's workshop. (University of the Witwatersrand)
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"Equitable partnerships are a systems-design challenge, not a relationship problem. We need to design across agenda equity, governance equity, and benefit equity." - Prof Emmanual Ojo, Deputy Head of the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand. #EquitablePartnerships

In the '(Re)centering indigenous knowledge for equitable partnerships' workshop, Prof Justine Mukhwana Sikuku shares how engaging with indigenous material culture and their custodians offers a powerful movement away from ‘research on’ to ‘research with’ indigenous peoples. #EquitablePartnerships

Prof Ricardo Oliveira, Professor of the International Politics of Africa, outlines pathways to navigate different funding and governance mechanisms in a Brazil-UK partnership.
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As we are building equitable partnerships, you need to optimise strengths of each partner.
"The objectives of partnerships should be to create a product that is the total summation of all the good things that come out of a research exercise.” - Professor Tshilidzi Marwala #EquitablePartnerships

"Equitability in partnerships starts before the research begins!" - Prof Vilma Irazola, Director of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) and the South American Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular Health., Argentina. #EquitablePartnerships

Professor Safiatou Doumbo explains how researchers are helping to improve community health and nutrition for thousands of children and mothers through collaboration and capacity building in rural Mali. #EquitablePartnerships

Science is often funded based on the novelty of an idea, but doing this in isolation can miss out on the importance of the context in which the research will be conducted...leading to limited local ownership, leadership and often reduced impact; we need an integrated approach. #EquitablePartnerships

In the Plenary Keynote talk 'Equitable Partnerships in Global Research: From Principles to Practice', Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim FRS speaks on the five global challenges of our time and that we must tackle these as a global community. #EquitablePartnerships

'Travel as research practice'

Prof Jude Robinson shares how unless we invest in hard software and good connectivity for all participants, research partnerships cannot be equitable. #EquitablePartnerships

"The question we should be asking ourselves is not whether partnerships are equitable, but whether the system they operate in make equity possible." - Prof Similo Ngwenya #EquitablePartnerships

“We cannot assume, that when researchers from the global north and global south are working together, that there is equity. No - we must be purposeful.” - Professor Shadreck Chirikure (FBA) #EquitablePartnerships

"It's important to know how we strengthen science diplomacy, how we protect academic freedom, how we engage all regions in knowledge pursuit.... For humanity to progress, science must be truly global and benefit everyone." - Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim FRS
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We’re live from Pretoria for the Second Equitable Partnerships Conference: https://bit.ly/4rmYoAk

Over the next two mornings, we’ll be sharing insights from across workshops exploring what equitable international research collaboration looks like in practice.

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