On April 22, 2021, the Globalisation andDevelopment (GAD) Programme invited Dr. Zhi Liu (PhD, Harvard University), SeniorResearch Fellow and China Program Director at the Lincoln Institute of LandPolicy, and Director of Peking University-Lincoln Institute for UrbanDevelopment and Land Policy (PLC), to share with students and staff keyreflections on China’s housing market trends.Lincoln In...

UIC  has a solid reputation for using English as the medium of instruction,  and hence why many UIC graduates are accepted to overseas universities.  However, having strong bilingual skills is also desired by higher  institutions in mainland China. Li Zhaoquan, a 2012 graduate of the  Government and International Relations (GIR) programme, entered his  third year of a doctoral programme in Law ...

Dr Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), a leading China-based organisation at the forefront of biodiversity conservation, environmental protection and sustainable development, visited UIC and offered a lecture as a Guest Speaker at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) High Table Dinner on 30 March....

On March 31, UIC’s Scholarship Presentation Ceremony for the 2019-2020 academic year was held at the University Performance Theatre. Overall, 20 GAD and GIR students were awarded at the event. In particular, GIR Year 4 student Mr. William ZHANG Zhen was one of only seven students across the whole college to be awarded the prestigious National Scholarship.Mr. Steven SHI Zhouming won the Ching-F...

   On March 9, the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme invited Dr. Wang Zhihe (王治河博士), Director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, in Claremont, USA, to share with students and staff his insights on Constructive Postmodernism, often referred to as “Ecological Postmodernism”, and Daoist-oriented development in China and across the world.Dr. Wang is a prominent...

The student-based Academic Society of the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme has recently established a "Sustainable Development Research Group" (GADAS-SDRG). The initiative reflects the growing interest that topics of sustainable development and its multiple, interconnected dimensions - economy, society, environment and governance - have been igniting within the GAD community and be...

The year 2020 has indeed been unlike any other, full of challenges and unexpected circumstances. However, even in the midst of a pandemic, the GIR/GAD programme has managed to summon current and prospective students as well as alumni working or studying at home and abroad to an online Zoom Alumni Gathering on November 18, 2020.This year, seven outstanding alumni were invited to share their expe...

On November 11, the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme invited Ms. Wang, director of the Chinese branch of the international nonprofit organization “Business for Social Responsibility” (BSR), to share with students and staff the overall mission of BSR and, in particular, the achievements of “HERproject”, a compelling, transnational effort that promotes women’s empowerment and in...