Dates：July 5th-July 16th 2021
Theme：Post-Pandemic Everyday Life: British and Chinese Perspectives
Level: Undergraduate
Format: Virtual + Group work
Program highlights：
Well-designed theme with academic courses jointly customized by NJU & TUOS professors
Students’ interviews and group interaction throughout the courses
Rich cultural experiences with virtual & in-person activities
Certificate of summer school
Enhancing students’ comprehensive competences in academic learning, practices, cross-cultural communication and collaboration, etc.
Course Schedule
The sessions on 5th July is from 4:30-8:00pm (Beijing Time)/ 9:30am-1:00pm (London Time);
Other sessions are from 5:00-8:00pm (Beijing Time)/ 10:00am-1:00pm (London Time).
5 July | Opening ceremony Guo Wei: Mental Health and Its Social Correlates in the General Chinese Population during the COVID-19 |
6 July | Yang Yudong: Where to Go: Chinese International Students in the Post-Pandemic Era Tom Clark & Zhou Peiqin-participating in class discussion |
7 July | Andrea Baldini: Art exhibition (Findingmeaning.art) Ran Guangpei: A documentary (Assigning homework) |
8 July | Simon Rushton: The Politics of Pandemics Thomas Johnson & Zhou Peiqin-participating in class discussion |
9 July | Lin Xue: The Role of Experts in COVID-19 Response in China Zhou Peiqin：Presentation assignment and guidelines |
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12 July | Sun Wenzheng: Self-Tracking Practices and Self-Management in the Post-COVID-19 Everyday Life Tom Clark: The Impact of the COVID-19 on the “Student Experience” |
13 July | Qiu Yue: Weaving Memory: Disaster Narratives in Internet Short Videos during COVID-19 Thomas Johnson & Sun Wenzheng-participating in class discussion |
14 July | Andrea Baldini & Ran Guangpei: Students present their homework assigned on 7th July. Meeting the advisors for presentation |
15 July | Chai Xiangnan: Older Chinese Adults' Health Behaviors in the Post-COVID-19 Era Zhou Peiqin-participating in class discussion Preparing the presentation |
16 July | Student presentations (Tom Clark, Thomas Johnson, Zhou Peiqin, Sun Wenzheng, ) Closing ceremony |
Zhou Peiqin, Ph.D.
Zhou Peiqin is an associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University. Dr. Zhou’s teaching and research focuses on gender studies and media studies.
Thomas Johnson, Ph.D.
Thomas Johnson is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on Chinese politics. Specifically, he is interested in how people in China respond to pollution and in the interplay between regulation and contentious politics. His goal when teaching a course is to create an effective learning environment that encourages and empowers students to develop their own understandings of the topic.
Tom Clark, Ph.D.
Tom Clark is a lecturer in the Department of Sociological Studies at The University of Sheffield. He designs immersive digital environments to enhance the student experience of learning, and also has much experience of delivering student partnership projects. Dr. Clark is interested in all aspects of research methods and methodology, particularly with respect to learning and teaching.
Guo Wei, Ph.D.
Guo Wei is an Associate Professor in Social Policy and Demography at the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University. Dr. Guo’s primary research interests include Population, Environment, Technology, and Society (PETS), Migrants, Work, and the Welfare State (MWS), and Aging, Health and Well-Being (AHW).
Yang Yudong, Ph.D.
Yang Yudong is an associate professor of culture anthropology at Nanjing University. His research interests focus on traumatic memory, comparative study between Korean and Chinese culture, kinship and legal anthropology.
Andrea Baldini, Ph.D.
Andrea Lorenzo Baldini is Director of the NJU Center for Sino-Italian Cultural Studies and Associate Professor of Art Theory and Aesthetics at the School of Arts of Nanjing University. He holds two PhDs, one in Philosophy from Temple University in Philadelphia (USA), where he studied as a Fulbright Fellow, the other in Text Sciences from the University of Siena (IT). He is generally interested in how creativity can influence our everyday lives and practices, and in particular the nature, uses, and functions of public spaces. He is Young Ambassador of the Jiangsu Province.
Ran Guangpei, Ph.D.
Ran Guangpei is an assistant research fellow at Nanjing University. His research interests include ritual, visual and sensory anthropology and ordinary ethics. He is also an ethnographic filmmaker.
Simon Rushton, Ph.D.
Simone Rushton is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Simon is an Associate Fellow of the Centre on Global Health Security at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Health Security and Diplomacy in Ottawa. Simon’s research interests focus on the global politics of health and on participatory research methods.
Lin Xue, Ph.D.
Lin Xue is an assistant Professor in the School of Government at NJU. Her research interests focus on emergency management, public risk governance, and urban resilience.
Sun Wenzheng, Ph.D.
Sun Wenzheng is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Nanjing University. Her research interests are new media and youth culture, communication and society, and intercultural communication.
Qiu Yue, Ph.D
Qiu Yue received her Ph.D. degree from the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is now a Research Assistant at Nanjing University. Her Ph.D. thesis studies the post-disaster recovery of the relocated community in Northern Sichuan. Her research interest includes disaster anthropology, cultural heritage, and place-making.
Chai Xiangnan, Ph.D.
Chai Xiangnan is an assistant research fellow at Sociology, Nanjing University. He received his doctorate dated October, 2019, at University of Western Ontario. Dr. Chai's research focuses on aging and the life course, and health and health inequality in the contexts of China and North America.
