Hokkaido-Melbourne Joint Research Workshops Fund 2025 awardees

Hokkaido University (HU) and the University of Melbourne (UoM) established a matching fund to support joint research workshops organised by the researchers of both universities in March 2022. The 2025 Workshops Fund received 14 joint proposals, and the awardees are selected by the Joint Research Workshops Fund Selection Meeting Committee as the following:

• Specially-appointed Associate Professor Yu Ait Bamai from the Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, HU and Professor Susan Sawyer from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS), UoM for their workshop hosted at HU: Bridging Health: Integrating Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Well-being across Melbourne and Hokkaido Through Cohort Studies
• Professor Kayo Ueda from the Faculty of Medicine, HU and Professor Kathryn Bowen from MDHS, UoM for their workshop hosted at HU: Challenges and opportunities of addressing the impact of climate change on migrant health in Australia and Japan
• Professor Teruo Sone from the Research Faculty of Agriculture and the Center of Education and Research for Hokkaido Wines, HU and Professor Jacqueline Dutton from the Faculty of Arts, UoM and The Pinot Noir Project for their workshop hosted at HU: Terroir, Country and ⾵⼟ (Fu:do) – Respecting a sense of place in Pinot Noir wine regions
• Professor Yoko Aoshima from the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, HU and Dr Iryna Skubii from the Faculty of Arts, UoM for their workshop hosted at UoM: War, Migration, and Identity: Exploring New Agendas for Ukrainian Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Professor Hirofumi Kato from the Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies and the Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), HU and Dr Emily Munro-Harrison from MDHS, UoM for their workshop hosted at UoM: Crafting Indigenous art space and place: Developing gathering places to support Indigenous peoplehood through the arts

The two universities supported fifteen workshops in past three years, and the past selection showed huge potential in diverse research collaborations from Philosophy, Build Environment, Nanomaterials, Mechanopharmacology, Livestock Production, Virology, Indigenous Studies, Eurasian Research, Natural Product Discovery, Resilient Infrastructure, Digital Health, Women’s Health to Smart Materials. The five selected workshops will contribute to the universities’ coverage to be deepened.

Office for International Collaborations / Div. of Research Promotion and Planning