Major grants strengthen links with China in palaeobiology
The University of Bristol has secured substantial funding in all three large grants recently awarded under an initiative to strengthen ties between the UK and China.

The University of Bristol has secured substantial funding in all three large grants recently awarded under an initiative to strengthen ties between the UK and China.

Last year marked the 17th year of the partnership between Bristol and Guangzhou (formerly Canton) in southern China and at a public talk later this month, the curator of the University of Bristol Botanic Garden will talk about his recent trip to China.

Students and staff from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) travelled to China recently to attend a conference in Beijing and two symposiums at the universities of Tsinghua and Jilin.

The ceremonial centrepiece of Bristol University has been recreated in China, with over 200 students from across the Asian country celebrating their graduation in style.

Professor Sally Thomas and her team at the Graduate School of Education have been awarded ESRC funding for a project entitled ‘Improving teacher development and quality in China’.

Academics from Bristol were in Hangzhou, Eastern China, last week to attend the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Ideas and Universities Conference 2012, jointly organized by the WUN and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.

The UK’s understanding of China will be greatly enhanced thanks to a £5 million award to a group of universities. Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the British Interuniversity China Centre (BICC) will become the premier teaching and research facility on China in the UK.

Are you planning a holiday or business trip to China? Did you know that there are more than seven language groups in China or that the number four should be avoided? Bristol University's Centre for East Asian Studies is offering members of the public a unique opportunity to find out more about this fascinating country at a day school taking place next month [Saturday, 4 June].

The Centre for East Asian Studies has been hosting the ‘China in the World’ Postgraduate Research Summer School, a week-long, EU-funded event.

A team of four University of Bristol graduates will take 3D printing to a new level having gained backing from one of the world’s leading hardware accelerators, Hax, in Shenzhen, China.