UCL-Peking University Strategic Partner Funds 2021/22 recipients

31 March 2022

The fifth annual seed funding call from UCL and Peking University (PKU) awarded seven joint projects up to £10,000 each

Following the fifth joint seed funding call from UCL and Peking University (PKU), seven collaborative projects led by academics from both institutions are set to launch.

Each of the projects received up to £10,000, with funds equally contributed by UCL and PKU.

The projects will strengthen links between UCL and PKU, who last year awarded four projects funding under the same call. In addition, five UCL students were awarded Yenching Academy of PKU scholarships last year.

One of this year's funding recipients, Dr Quichen Lu, said: "It is my great honor to receive the UCL-PKU Strategic Partner Fund. This project aims at starting a new collaboration between UCL and Peking University (PKU) in the area of sustainable cities. Specifically, we propose a pilot study to investigate scenarios of mobility and anthropogenic emissions to enable more sustainable cities in the post-pandemic era. Thanks to this funding opportunity, our research group has great opportunities to work with PKU and develop the city-level research jointly."

Congratulations to all the UCL-PKU Strategic Partner Funds 2021/22 funding recipients:

Lead UCL applicant	Faculty	Project
Dr Quichen Lu	Bartlett	Enabling a sustainable new normal by learning from experiences in UK and Chinese cities
Professor Ulrich Tiedau	Arts & Humanities	Consolidating and further expanding the digital humanities collaboration between UCL and PKU through two collaborative workshops
Dr Jie Gao	IOE	Children’s perspectives in understanding the changing Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practices in post-pandemic times and the implications on children’s wellbeing
Professor Lasana Harris	Brain Sciences	Investigation into how human beings respond to threat and reminders of their mortality in order to highlight alternative regulatory approaches to deal with the fear of death
Dr Feng Ryan Wang	Engineering Sciences	UCL-PKU symposium on post pandemic research in energy, environment and sustainability
Professor Samuel Solomon	Brain Sciences	Virtual UCL-PKU Summer School in Experimental Design in Psychology
Dr Yun Fu	Engineering Sciences	Expansion of the UCL Industry Exchange Network (UCL IXN) to incorporate the strong influences and capabilities of PKU

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