Visiting Researchers to China Programme

In 2009, the RSC signed a cooperation agreement with the State Administration for Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), a division of the Chinese Government. As part of a wider governmental initiative to enhance the global impact of Chinese science and China’s higher education institutions, the RSC and SAFEA are providing funding for a Visiting Researchers Programme. This encourages academics from the UK to visit Chinese universities to share best practice, advise Chinese researchers on presenting their research to an international audience and to stimulate collaboration between UK and Chinese institutions.

The pilot programme will take place in 2010-2011 and the first five researchers to visit China will be:

• Professor David Andrews, University of East Anglia
• Professor Annie Bligh, London Metropolitan University
• Dr Robert Davies, Imperial College London
• Professor Malcolm Fox, Leeds University
• Dr Stephen Skinner, Imperial College London 

The RSC and SAFEA meet regularly to discuss future opportunities for collaboration.