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VIRTUAL EVENT: Navigating your academic trajectory: Mainland China and Japan
23 July 2021, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
In this webinar, Dr Zhou Zhong and Dr Jing Liu will share their experiences working in education in Mainland China and Japan.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Cassie Zhang
This activity is a researcher-led initiative that has been funded by UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme: UCL researcher-led initiatives.
In this webinar, Dr Zhong will share her experience in working across the boundaries in education, research, and service in China and overseas. She will also share about the creative tensions she experienced as a comparatist in education.
In this webinar, Dr Jing Liu will share his experience as a teacher and researcher in Japan’s higher education. He will introduce opportunities and barriers as he is actively promoting internationalisation and teaching and learning for promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in: higher education, PhD students and international postgraduate research (PGR) students.
For UCL-students, log your research training point in UCL Inkpath. Use the Single Sign-On option and select University College London from the list.
CHES and CERA Summer Webinar Series
This Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) and Chinese Educational Research Association (CERA) Summer Webinar Series is a practical webinar series for international Postgraduate Research (PGR) students on navigating their academic trajectory in east Asia.
The aim of this series is to identify the dilemma faced by international PGR students (particularly female students), and explore possible corresponding strategies in developing a successful academic career.
Links
- CHES research events
- Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES)
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Abby Chung via Pexels
About the Speakers
Dr Zhou Zhong
Associate Professor at Department of Education, Tsinghua
Zhou served as the Associate Dean of the Office of International Affairs, Tsinghua University, in 2016-2018.
She has a background in English Language and Literature (BA, Peking) and Comparative and International Education (MSc, DPhil, Oxon). Her research is about comparative, international, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural studies of the university and higher education.
Her recent research projects are about internationalisation, global strategy, and global competence education.
More about Dr Zhou ZhongDr Jing Liu
Associate Professor at Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University
Prior to the current position, Jing served as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan, from 2013 to 2017.
Then, he worked as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo between 2017 and 2019. His research areas include sociology of education, international comparative education and development, and education for sustainability.
More about Dr Jing Liu