1) Be nurturing and encouraging. Chinese students tend to be very reserved, but they respond well to positive reinforcement and become more proactive once they feel they are in a safe environment where they won’t be judged or criticized. Chinese students often perceive the simple act of asking a question or making a comment as…>
Lecturer Of Italian Language At Peking University
Giulia Falato is a Chinese language teacher and PhD student at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She first visited China in 2004 as an exchange student in Shanghai where foreign students were uncommon and scholarships even rarer. Her past experience includes, but is not limited to: a three-month internship in Guangzhou and participation in…>
Chinese Government Initiatives for Recruiting Academic Staff and Developing the HE System
In the last two decades the Chinese government has introduced a number of initiatives aimed at building world class universities. These include the 211 project and the 985 project which were targeted at developing the research capacity of the Chinese higher education system. In addition, the government introduced the Changjiang Scholar and 1000 talents programmes…>
Associate Professor of English at Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
Francesca de Lucia is a Swiss and Italian double national. She grew up in Naples, Italy and holds a PhD in American literature from the University of Oxford, UK.
Associate Professor of English at Shandong University, China
Jiang Li works as an Associate Professor of English at Shandong University, China since 2004. She completed her doctoral research at Berne University, Switzerland in March, 2014.
Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham’s China Campus, Ningbo
Alex Newman is presently a Senior Lecturer in Management at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He teaches and has published extensively in the area of business management, with a specific focus on leadership, organizational behaviour and entrepreneurship.
Understanding your role as a Lecturer
There was a time, not so long ago, when academic contracts contained no formal job descriptions, other than a vague injunction to ‘perform the wishes of the Head of Department’. This may no longer be the case, but reading a job description, or ticking a few boxes at annual performance review is not the same…>
Lecturer at the University of Cardiff
A career in academia may not be straightforward. One report suggests that people change job up to 11 times in their lifetime. Even for those with a strong academic background, opportunities and changing circumstances can lead to jobs that might not have been expected. Choosing your career Dr. Sheila Dargan is a Lecturer at the…>
Deputy Editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge
Ruth Docherty Managing Editor of the British Dental Journal based at Nature Publishing Group in London It’s not easy to find a job that utilizes your specialist knowledge as a PhD holder yet also provides a progressive career path. Many are looking outside the academic world for a rewarding career. Ruth Doherty, Deputy Editor…>