The Imperial Turner Kirk Trust Challenge
The Turner Kirk Trust Challenge Fund has been established thanks to a generous donation from the Turner Kirk Trust to bring together conservation scientists and mathematicians from Imperial’s Centre for Environmental Policy, Department of Life Sciences and Department of Mathematics to develop transformative and tangible solutions to some of the most difficult conservation problems facing us today.
The Turner Kirk Trust (TKT)
Founded by Dr Ewan Kirk and Dr Patricia Turner in 2007 to solve specific challenges through effective, evidence-based philanthropy, the Turner Kirk Trust is a family foundation with a specific focus on science, technology, engineering, mathematics, conservation, biodiversity and early childhood development.
Since its establishment in 2007, the Trust has disbursed over £7 million to charitable causes across the UK and developing world.
Our mission
We are at a critical moment in our planet’s biodiversity. A multidisciplinary approach is imperative to tackling global conservation and biodiversity challenges.
To this end, the TKT Challenge Fund mission is to identify and boost breakthrough topics critical for global biodiversity conservation that are particularly amenable to mathematical analysis. Of particular interest are high risk/high gain ideas, to develop innovative and novel mathematical approaches to biodiversity conservation that are previously untried and untested.
