Summary
I spent 3 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, East and West China) consisted of visits to Guangzhou (where I visited Jinan and Sun Yat-Sen universities), Beijing (Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Tsinghua University), Taiyuan (Shanxi University), Xi’an (Northwestern Polytechnic University) and Nanjing (Nanjing University and Southeast University). I gave invited lectures at two conferences in Beijing and at the universities I visited I gave research seminars and had research talks with existing and potential collaborators. I also discussed undergraduate exchange programmes and answered questions about studying and carrying out research in Birmingham and the UK in general. In addition, during my visit to Beijing, I gave an Understanding Science public lecture and a lecture to high school students (Dulwich College, Beijing).
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