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Ireland-Japan Seminar: Caring Communities in Japan and Ireland: collaboration, engagement and intergeneration relations for realising Ageing in Place
Date and Time: 10:00-16:00 Tuesday 28th October 2025
Venue: Quinn School of Business – Belfield Campus, University College Dublin
This seminar is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme.
The aims of this event are to bring together academics, practitioners and early-career researchers in the two countries, and to discuss the current policy and practice in this area where life sciences (public health nursing) and social sciences (public policy and social work) intersect.
Building on our long-term commitment and strong track record of successful partnership, this cross-disciplinary initiative will cement the two countries’ research communities in this area. It is also designed to create a learning platform for addressing common challenges and opportunities surrounding community-based initiatives, by and for older people internationally.
For further information, please contact the event host below.
Dr Naonori Kodate
https://people.ucd.ie/naonori.kodate
Posted on 28 October 2025
UK-Japan Seminar: Chalcogenide nanoelectronics and photonics: a vehicle for collaboration and exchanges between Birmingham and Japan
Date and Time: 9:00-17:45 Tuesday 30th September 2025
Venue: Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham Campus
This seminar is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme.
The aim of this event is to foster collaborative research between Birmingham and Japan in the field of chalcogenide nanoelectronics and photonics.
By bringing together leading experts and complimentary skillsets from the UK and Japan we will discuss ways to jointly further develop active chalcogenide materials for applications in data storage, optical routing, computing, displays, photovoltaics, and infrared detectors.
For further information, please contact the event host below.
Dr Robert E Simpson
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/eese/simpson-robert
Posted on 30 September 2025
UK-Japan Seminar: Interactive theorem prover + Generative AI in maths seminar 2025
Date and Time: 13:00-17:00 17 September 2025
Venue: Room Laver 320 University of Exeter
This seminar is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme.
The purpose of this seminar is to investigate ways in which the Interactive Theorem Prover & generative AI can effectively support mathematicians' practice and mathematics education.
Interactive theorem prover + Generative AI in maths seminar 2025
For further information, please contact the event host.
Posted on 04 September 2025
UK-Japan Seminar:Integrating Biological Sciences and AI for Next-Generation Immunotherapy
9:00AM -6:30PM, Tuesday 22nd July 2025
(Door open:8:30AM-)
Venue: Imperial College London – Flowers Building, G47A, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ
This seminar is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme.
The seminar event, “Integrating Biological Sciences and AI for Next- Generation Immunotherapy,” is scheduled for 22nd July 2025 at Imperial College London, ranked 9th globally. It brings together leading researchers from the UK and Japan across multiple disciplines—Immunology, Molecular Biology, Virology, and Computational Science/AI—to drive innovations in immunotherapy.
Immunotherapy has emerged as a major breakthrough in cancer treatment, recognised by the 2018 Nobel Prize. Historically, Japan has made significant contributions to immunology research, including key discoveries that paved the way for modern immunotherapy. Yet, there is a growing need for more integrated, cross-disciplinary collaborations to tackle the complexity of the immune system. This seminar aims to spark new bilateral dialogues between the UK and Japan, uniting scientific strengths and resources to foster novel therapeutic strategies and approaches.
Posted on 04 July 2025
JSPS London Pre Departure Seminar and Evening Reception
12:30-19:00, Wednesday 23rd April 2025, JSPS London (by invitation only).
Presentations from this event:
A History of the JSPS Alumni Association for the UK and Republic of Ireland
Professor Naoto Kobayashi, Director, JSPS London
Preparing for your Research Trip
Dr Yumiko Myoken, Deputy Director, JSPS London
JSPS Programmes and After your Fellowship
Mr Yusuke Nishida, International Programme Associate, JSPS London
Experiences as a JSPS Summer Research Fellow
Ms Narin Aker (University College London)
Research Environment in Japanese Institutions
Dr Stephen Lyth (University of Strathclyde)
Latest Activities of the UK and Ireland JSPS Alumni Association
Professor Alessandra Devoto (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Funding opportunities from other Japanese organisations:
The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation's Funding Programmes for Research in Japan
Ms Susan Meehan, Scholarship and Grants Officer
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation's Funding Programmes for Research in Japan
Ms Miwako Hayashi Bitmead, Programmes Executive
Posted on 30 April 2025
UK-Japan Seminar: Robotics, Religion and Ethics
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Friday 28th February 2025
Room: Engineering B_2B.025 M&T, Oxford Road Campus, University of Manchester
This multidisciplinary seminar is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme. The event’s aim is to bring together experts in robotics, machine learning, AI, ethics and religion and who are based in the UK, EU and Japan, to address timely questions and larger debates over the ethical implications of AI and human-robot interactions. This will include discussion on the state of the art current applications of social robots and human-robot interaction in care and religion, and discussion and application of ethics principles and guidelines for future research on ethical AI and robotics systems.
For more information about this seminar including event programme and registration, please visit the following link:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofmanchester5/1489400
Posted on 09 December 2024
JSPS- Academy of Medical Sciences Joint Workshop
JSPS London co-organised the workshop with the UK Academy of Medical Sciences on 16-17 October 2024, focusing on how to improve the resilience of health and public health systems in light of climate and environmental change. The workshop was attended by more than 40 researchers based in UK and Japan as well as related policy-makers.
The aims of the workshop were to:
・Bring together multisectoral expertise across the fields of climate and health, public health systems resilience, health inequalities, and planetary health
・Comprehensively identify and share country-specific initiative successes and challenges, knowledge, and expertise relating to this to learn from these and how they can be applied in Japan and the UK
・Understand where knowledge and research gaps lie and identify opportunities to address these in both countries
・Provide an opportunity for networking and a platform to share experiences between experts from Japan, the UK and internationally, and to identify the added benefit of international collaboration for this topic
Posted on 01 November 2024
JSPS London 30th Anniversary Event
4th September 2024, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Presentations from the Pre Departure Seminar:
Preparing for your Research Trip
Dr Yumiko Myoken, Deputy Director, JSPS London
JSPS Programmes and after your Fellowship
Ms Asuka Nishida, International Programme Associate, JSPS Tokyo
Experiences as a JSPS Research Fellow
Dr Chris Pearson, RAL Space, Oxford
Presentations from the Anniversary Event:
Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of JSPS London
Professor Naoto Kobayashi, Director, JSPS London
Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the UK and RoI JSPS Alumni Association
Professor Andrew Quantock, Chair, Alumni Association of UK and ROI, (Cardiff University)
UK-Japan Collaboration for a New Frontier in Plasma Physics
Professor Peter Norreys, JSPS Alumnus (University of Oxford)
UK-Japan Collaboration in Digital Sociology
Professor Ekaterina Hertog, JSPS Alumna (University of Oxford)
Dr Clare Pollard, Curator of the Japan Collection
Posted on 05 September 2024
JSPS London Pre Departure Seminar and Evening Reception
13:00-19:00, Friday 26th April 2024, JSPS London (by invitation only).
Presentations from this event:
Preparing for your Research Trip
Dr Yumiko Myoken, Deputy Director, JSPS London
JSPS Programmes and After your Fellowship
Ms Yui Miyaura, International Programme Associate, JSPS London
JSPS Summer Programme Experience
Mr Henrik Wong (University of Manchester)
Doing Research in Japan and Building Networks
Dr Henrik Stotz (University of Hertfordshire)
Latest Activities of the UK and Ireland JSPS Alumni Association
Professor Alessandra Devoto, Co Chair of the UK and Ireland JSPS Alumni Association (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Funding opportunities from other Japanese organisations:
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation's Funding Programmes for Research in Japan
Ms Susan Meehan, Scholarships and Grants Officer
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation's Funding Programmes for Research in Japan
Ms Jenny White, Chief Executive
Posted on 01 May 2024
UK-Japan Symposium on Structural Biology
18th-19th June 2024
Life Sciences Building, University of Liverpool
This symposium is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme and the objective is to bring together the UK and Japanese scientists who are engaged in developing and utilizing the frontier methods of structural biology. All major structural biology approaches (cryoEM, XFEL, Synchrotron and neutrons) will be covered and latest developments and future plans for UK-Japan partnership will be discussed.
Information on the symposium programme is available here
For any enquiries about this event including registration, please contact Professor Samar Hasnain: ssh98@liverpool.ac.uk
Posted on 23 April 2024
