Tsunami Reseach Project
Posted
02-02-2010 5:24 PM
by
Mike Simmons
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It is
just over 5 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit
countries around the Indian Ocean. As a commemoration of this event,
the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the University of
Wales, Newport, has received funding from the Higher Education Academy to
develop an international community of University students, both
undergraduate and postgraduate from any discipline, who are studying or
undertaking research into the Indian Ocean tsunami and, for example, its
social, economic, cultural, and physical impacts.
If you are
already studying or researching the event, or are planning to do a
dissertation or project on it next year, please be among the first to join
and contribute to the online community at http://tsunami2004.ning.com/,
which was launched this week.
Newport
has been partnered with Osmania University in India and students there are also
being invited to join with a view to developing collaborative research links,
holding video conference seminars, and arranging possible study
visits. The CELT Project intends to publish a book of collected student
research papers on the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2011.
If you are
interested, please join the project at http://tsunami2004.ning.com/.