Impacts

In collaboration with The University of Glasgow, the project aims to develop the evidence needed to produce a transformative method for improving children’s ability across STEM subjects, independent of background or birth.

In partnership with Imperial College London, the Turner Kirk Trust Sprint Challenge was established to bring together conservation scientists and mathematicians from Imperial’s Centre for Environmental Policy, Department of Life Sciences, and Department of Mathematics.

An innovative pilot project by SolarAid to provide solar lights to every household in an off-grid village in central Malawi, aiding their mission to light up all of rural Africa by 2030.

The University of Cambridge and the Turner Kirk Trust have launched the Kirk Global Challenge, a competition designed to jump-start economic growth in the developing world.

A new student-led research programme to develop new unmanned aerial vehicles to fight back against climate change and poaching, funded by the Trust.

A visiting fellowship programme hosted at the Isaac Newton Institute to support underrepresented groups within higher mathematical research.

A research centre focusing on solving fundamental mathematical problems and the methodology for processing data.

The Trust endowed the Isaac Newton Institute to launch the Turner-Kirk Fellowship to bring some of the world’s most acclaimed mathematicians to Cambridge.

Launching SolarAid’s new innovation hub in Kenya to find new sustainable trading models to distribute solar lights across sub-Saharan Africa.