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Bristol academics discuss university and society at China conference

l-r: Professor Dave Gordon, Ann Singleton, Dr Ryerson Christie, Dr Susan Jim, Dr Guoxing Yu, Dr Lisa Lucas, Professor Xu Xiaozhou, Ian Wei, Professor Sally Thomas

l-r: Professor Dave Gordon, Ann Singleton, Dr Ryerson Christie, Dr Susan Jim, Dr Guoxing Yu, Dr Lisa Lucas, Professor Xu Xiaozhou, Ian Wei, Professor Sally Thomas

9 November 2012

Academics from Bristol were in Hangzhou, Eastern China, last week to attend the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Ideas and Universities Conference 2012, jointly organized by the WUN and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.

Academics from Bristol were in Hangzhou, Eastern China, last week to attend the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Ideas and Universities Conference 2012, jointly organized by the WUN and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.

Around 150 representatives from countries including the USA, Canada, South Africa, Israel and China took part in the Conference, whose theme was ‘The changing roles of universities in social and economic development’. Ian Wei, Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History at Bristol, co-convened the three-day event with Professor Xu Xiaozhou from Zhejiang University and Professor Adam Nelson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nine delegates from Bristol attended, comprising academics from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, the Academic Registrar and the WUN Development Manager.

Further information

The Worldwide Universities Network is a global partnership of 18 research-intensive universities spanning six continents committed to working together to support research and education in areas of global significance. The current global challenges or collaborative research programmes that are being fostered by WUN are: Adapting to Climate Change; Global Higher Education and Research; Global Public Health and Non-Communicable Disease, and Understanding Cultures. For more information on WUN activities, please email susan.jim@bristol.ac.uk.
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