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Emmanuel Akpabio

Commonwealth Split-site Scholar publishes thesis

Emmanuel Akpabio (Commonwealth Split-site Scholar, PhD Environmental and Resource Management, Lancaster University, 2004-2006) has published his doctoral thesis as a textbook, titled Integrated Water Resources Management in Nigeria: Local factors and institutional challenges. Emmanuel says: I took time to work on the book – updating and enriching it to make it very attractive to wider [...]

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Career news

Dr Kanamarlapudi Venkateswarlu (Commonwealth Scholar, PhD Molecular Biology, University of Sheffield, 1993-1996) has now become Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Swansea University, UK. Valérie Price (Commonwealth Scholar, Childhood Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2007-2008) has been selected by the Recruitment of Policy Leaders programme of the Canadian Federal Government to work for the Canadian International [...]

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Commonwealth Scholar in China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge final

Shams Usmani (2009 Commonwealth Split-site Scholar, PhD Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University and Lancaster University) and his team from Lancaster University have won a place in the final of the China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge, a competition for business plans which have the potential to bridge China and the UK in terms of product design, market or [...]

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Commonwealth Scholar reaches finals of business plan competition

A business plan put together by Commonwealth Split-site Scholar Shams Usmani (PhD Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University and Lancaster University, 2009) has been shortlisted for the finals of the Rice Business Plan Competition. The business plan, regarding a modified industrial wastewater treatment bioreactor, was written by Shams and fellow students in management studies at Lancaster, including [...]

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