In 2009, the Royal Society of Chemistry signed a cooperation agreement with the State Administration for Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), a division of the Chinese Government. As part of a wider governmental initiative to enhance the global impact of Chinese science and China’s higher education institutions, the RSC and SAFEA provide funding for a Visiting Researchers Programme. This encourages academics from the UK to visit Chinese universities to share best practice, advise Chinese researchers on presenting their research to an international audience and to stimulate collaboration between UK and Chinese institutions.
 
This blog provides a space for participants to share their experiences and for the RSC to highlight the opportunities that stem from the SAFEA programme.

*The map is reproduced from the United Nations Statistics Division
 

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Professor Richard Walton (University of Warwick) took part in the 2014 SAFEA-RSC Visiting Researchers Programme, visiting China on the 17-25 September. He spent time at Yangzhou University in Jiangsu province and at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Although Richard had been to China a few times previously for conferences, this trip was a chance to visit new places and allowed time for more informal research discussions with various research groups and interaction with some students. In Yangzhou he gave a set of lectures, ranging from research seminars to graduate classes and a paper-writing workshop in addition to visiting the beautiful Slender West Lake and the Bonsai museum. In Beijing he gave a seminar to physicists on some new materials prepared by chemical methods and enjoyed the traditional Beijing hot-pot.


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Posted by Kathleen Too on Oct 14, 2014 2:27 PM BST
In September 2014, Dr Zoe Schnepp (University of Birmingham) visited  Southeast University in China, courtesy of the RSC-SAFEA visiting researcher programme. Below is her trip diary where she recounts her experience in Shanghai and Nanjing. Highlights of her trip includes a potential memorandum of understanding between SouthEast University and the University of Birmingham, historical Nanjing, and excellent chinese food.


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Posted by Kathleen Too on Oct 3, 2014 4:17 PM BST
I spent couple weeks in China, funded through the joint Royal Society of Chemistry / (Chinese) State Administration for Foreign Experts Affairs [RSC-SAFEA] programme. My trip (covering North, South and East China) consisted of visits to Beijing (International Symposium on Environment and Health (ISEH) at Peking University), Xiamen (where I visited Xiamen University) and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, ZAAS). During the visit, I gave research seminars at the two visiting institutions (Xiamen University and ZAAS) and presented one poster in the conference (ISEH). Also I had research talks with existing and potential collaborators. We discussed about some joint PhD student programmes, proposals for joint research projects (e.g. joint research funding from Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC) etc.) and joint papers published. Actually, in August 2014, I was told that my Overseas Scholars Joint Grant with Xiamen University was successfully awarded by NNSFC.  I also took the opportunity for some holidays with my family and friends in China.
 


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Posted by Kathleen Too on Oct 3, 2014 3:28 PM BST