Rethinking the healthy city in the post-COVID19 era

Call for early career researchers to participate in a UK-China Newton Researchers Link Workshop

How can we make a city safe, resilient and equal, in response to public health disasters? Answering this question is a global challenge for development of healthy cities post-COVID19.

This workshop aims to create opportunities for 40 participants from UK and China to critically, creatively and constructively discuss the theories, methods, and techniques associated with geographical exposure, urban mobility and inequality, using multi-disciplinary and comparative perspectives.

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), we will be holding a virtual workshop on the above theme online 1-5 November 2021, with two-hour sessions each day.

The workshop is being coordinated by Dr Jianquan Cheng at Manchester Met and Prof Suhong Zhou at Sun Yat-sen University, and will have inspiring contributions from the following leading scholars in the role of mentor or invited speaker including:

• Prof Jamie Pearce, University of Edinburgh
• Prof Sarah Lindley, University of Manchester
• Prof Maged N Kamel Boulos, Sun Yat-sen University
• Prof Lan Wang, Tongji University
• Prof Qingming Zhan, Wuhan University
• Prof Mei-Po Kwan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Prof Bo Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Prof Yanwei Chai, Peking University
• Prof Jon Bannister, Manchester Met
• Prof Ye Liu, Sun Yat-sen University
• Dr Jianxi Feng, Nanjing University
• Prof Lin Liu, Guangzhou University and University of Cincinnati
• Prof Zhilin Liu, Tsinghua University
• Dr Zhixin Feng, Sun Yat-sen University

We are now inviting early career researchers from the UK to apply to attend.

All relevant expenses will be covered by the Newton Fund Researcher Links programme.

You must apply before 30 October 2021.