For the afternoon of May 8, 2024, the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences invited Dr. Linda Matar, Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, SUN Yat-sen University, to deliver a lecture on “Development Challenges in the Arab Region”. The lecture was hosted by Dr. Selçuk Çolakoğlu, Associate Professor of the Globlisation and Develop...

On the morning of March 29, 2024, the Department of Social Sciences and the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences invited Dr. Hongmou Zhang, assistant professor at the School of Government, Peking University, to deliver a lecture on the theme of "Smart Cities and Sociological Imagination". The lecture was moderated by Dr. Shuang Wu, assistant profe...

From November 1 to November 3, students enrolled in the course “International Trade, Globalization and China’s Belt and Road Initiative” participated in a three-day field trip to visit local enterprises in Gaolangang, Shunde, Guangzhou and Zhaoqiang, to explore smart manufacturing, international trade and financial services in the Greater Bay Area.Led by Associate Dean of the Faculty of Huma...

On October 11, the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme invited a group of enthusiastic alumni to share their recent study and career experience, as well as to show their achievements in multiple areas from business to academia, and in the fields such as development studies, political sciences, or anthropology.Mr. Chen Chaofan, a research postgraduate at Chinese University of Hong Kong...

Dr. Wu Shuang, Assistant Professor at the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme, was awarded 2023 National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project Fund for her research about lives, labor processes and spatiotemporal mechanisms of women involved in social reproduction through their participation in platform economyIn recent years, more and more people in China participate in platform e...

On October 9, 2023, the Department of Social Sciences (DSS) had the honor of hosting Dr. Yu Le, Associate Professor of Land Systems Science at Tsinghua University who delivered a lecture on land system change and sustainable development.Land system constitutes a link between human activity and environment. Dr. Yu’s research uses geographic information technology to map global land-use change, ...

On May 17, 2023 the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) held FHSS Exhibition of Student Achievements 2023: Best FYPs and Award-Winning Projects. Seven senior GAD students who excelled in their respective FYP projects presented their posters and received awards: Ms. Yu Kyung JEON, Ms. Deng Ziwen, Ms. Lu Wanlin, Ms. Chen Jingyu, Mr. Zhang Qifan, Mr. Chen Chaofan, and Mr. Chen Jiawei....

Calvin is a fresh graduate of Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme at the Department of Social Sciences. He recently got admission to study Master of Arts in East Asian Studies at the Yale University.When Calvin came to the UIC, it was English as a medium of instruction and cultural diversity in the background that attracted him. And quite naturally he went to choose Globalisation and ...