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International Exeter
annual report
2013/14
partnership engagement
China and Hong Kong
A delegation of twelve faculty members from the College
of Humanities – led by Professor Nick Kaye – held a forum
at Peking University’s School of Foreign Languages in
June 2014. The delegation visited Fudan in Shanghai the
following week and participated in a three day Exeter-Fudan
Colloquium with Fudan’s School of Foreign Languages
and Literatures themed “Reading across Cultures: Global
Configurations of Reception, Adaptation and Transmission.”
The Exeter delegation hosted a banquet at the Langham
hotel on the final evening of the colloquium for guests from
the British Council, Fudan University and professionals
from Shanghai’s creative industries, including the eminent
Chinese Director Gu Yi’an. The visits to Peking and Fudan
have generated extensive opportunities for collaboration,
including with Fudan’s Department of Chinese Languages
and Literatures and the Fudan National Institute of Advanced
Humanistic Studies (IAHS).
Exeter’s Department of Psychology is also collaborating
actively with counterparts at East China Normal University
(ECNU). Professor Ian McLaren, Dr Yixuan Ku and PhD
students from both universities had a joint paper published
in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in December
2013, after an Exeter PhD student spent six months
conducting research at ECNU. Up to five members of
faculty from ECNU Psychology are intending to visit
Exeter in Autumn 2014.
We are also collaborating in China with other UK
universities. In July 2014, an MOU was signed between
the University of Exeter, Imperial College London and the
China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). It is
intended that a joint laboratory will be established between
the three institutions.
2013-14 also witnessed a substantial increase in the number
of Exeter faculty members who have received financial
support from the University to develop collaborations with
counterparts in China. Our Outward Mobility Academic
Fellowships serve to facilitate collaborations, enabling Exeter
faculty to visit overseas colleagues and draw the terms of
reference for the partnership and funding bids to sustain it.
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER FACULTY MEMBERS AWARDED OUTWARD MOBILITY
ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS FOR TRAVEL TO MAINLAND CHINA
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Professor Kang Yitong, Associate Dean of PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University and Professor Robin Mason, Dean of the University of Exeter
Business School, sign an exchange agreement, Beijing, November 2013
The Pro Vice-Chancellor at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Professor Fanny Cheung, visited the University of
Exeter in May 2014. She met with faculty members from the
College of Life and Environmental Sciences with whom she
discussed the application of Exeter’s expertise in Improving
Access to Psychological Therapies to Hong Kong’s health
sector. She and Sir Steve signed a pan-institutional MOU that
underlined their commitment to broaden the relationship
between the two institutions.
We are also witnessing increased demand for articulation
agreements among our partners, enabling Chinese students
to continue their studies at Exeter. The Dean of the Business
School, Professor Robin Mason, visited Tsinghua University’s
PBC School of Finance. A School-level exchange agreement
has since been signed. Professor Mason also travelled to
Nanjing University of Finance and Economics (NUFE) and met
with the Chancellor, Professor Zhanglong Chen, and Vice-
President, Professor Chengming Xu. The Business School and
NUFE have a longstanding partnership which involves NUFE
students studying at Exeter to complete an undergraduate
degree in Accounting and Finance.
A new Progression Agreement is being developed between
Psychology Departments at East China Normal University
and Exeter, enabling ECNU Psychology students to undertake
postgraduate studies at Exeter. As a result five ECNU
students completed Exeter’s MSc Social and Organisational
Psychology programme in 2013/14. In May, the University
hosted delegations from Shanghai University of Sport and
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Shanghai
University of Sport intend to send students to the University
of Exeter’s International Summer School, while Southwestern
University of Finance and Economics proposes to develop an
articulation agreement in Economics.
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