2021 ABCP Annual Conference: UK-China Collaboration Track

This is the web page of the UK-China Collaboration track of the ABCP 2021 Annual Conference, to be held on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July, 2021.

Programme (Tentative)

1-1:15pm: updates from Universities UK International (UUKi) regarding UK-China collaboration
- Jamie Arrowsmith, Assistant Director, Policy, UUKi
- Alan Gregory, Policy Officer (Asia), UUKi
1:15-1:30pm: updates from UKRI China regarding UK-China joint funding opportunities
- Speaker to be confirmed
1:30-2:15pm: joint institutes between HEIs in the UK and China (talks and panel discussion)
- Professor Susan (Sue) Welburn, Chair of Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology of The University of Edinburgh, Executive Dean of Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE)
- Professor Jingzhe Pan (潘敬哲教授), Professor of Mechanics of Materials, University of Leicester, Dean of Leicester International Institute, Dalian University of Technology (大连理工大学莱斯特国际学院英方院长)
2:15-3:00pm: joint research collaboration between the UK and China (talks and panel discussion)
- Professor Jon Frampton, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (China) and Director of the China Institute, University of Birmingham
- Professor Zhanfeng Cui (崔占峰教授) FREng, Founding Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) / 牛津大学高等研究院（苏州）, University of Oxford
3-3:30pm: UK-Jiangsu 20+20 World Class University Consortium
- Professor Alan Marshall, Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, UK Chair of UK-Jiangsu World Class University Consortium

1-1:45pm: UNNC and XJTLU (talks and panel discussion)
- Professor Weiqi (Sam) Shen (沈伟其教授), Vice Provost for External Relations, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC, 宁波诺丁汉大学)
- Professor Qiuling Chao (钞秋玲教授), Board Member and Vice President, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU, 西交利物浦大学)
1:45-2:30pm: joint research collaboration between the UK and China (talks and panel discussion)
- Professor Tao Dong (董涛教授), Founding Director (Oxford) of CAMS-Oxford joint International Centre for Translational Immunology & Founding Director (Oxford) of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute (COI), University of Oxford
- Professor Hongbiao Dong (董洪标教授), Science Director of TWI-UOL Materials Innovation Centre, University of Leicester
2:30-3:30pm: joint PhD funding schemes between the UK and China
- PhD students funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC, 国家留学基金管理委员会)
  - Speaker to be confirmed
- China-Britain Business Council (CBBC, 英中贸易协会) joint UK-China PhD programme in science and technology entrepreneurship
  - Professor Lik-Kwan Shark (薩力群教授), CBBC Project Champion & University of Central Lancashire