The Strathclyde China Institute (SCI) collaborated with the Confucius Institute for Scotland's Schools (CISS), the Business School and HaSS in holding a joint celebration of Chinese New Year and Burns Night on February 13.
The event at the Barony was a great success. It involved elements of both cultures throughout the evening, with Chinese lanterns, red envelopes with Burns poetry inside, and fortune cookies all featuring, while Fiona Fisher gave an excellent 'Address to the Haggis'; Li Hong Yu did a fantastic 'Selkirk Grace'; Mark Poustie delivered a Toast to the Lassies and Lorna Dougall replied to the laddies while Jude McKeerecher, from CISS, perfected "The Immortal Memory."
Consul General, Mr Pan Xinchun, expressed his New Year wishes to all the guests and also brought greetings from home to our Chinese students.
The Strathclyde China Institute aims to promote the development of institutional partnerships and collaboration in research and education with leading Chinese institutions in the fields of Business, Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a joint initiative between the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Strathclyde Business School.
During the last year and a half, through the efforts of the Strathclyde China Institute and the hard work of Strathclyde colleagues, there are now 60 Chinese students in HaSS and SBS.
The bi-lingual staff at SCI work with colleagues across the University and from Chinese universities to:
Professor Ian Cooper from London Business School was a guest speaker at the weekly research seminar series of the Accounting and Finance department.
His presentation was on February 4 to an audience of faculty and postgraduate research students, and he presented his working paper titled: "Is equity home bias different from foreign bias?"
Jacques Hefti, a PhD student in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, won best poster at the 3rd International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance held in Auckland on February 12 and 13 for a poster on his PhD topic "Entrepreneurial Growth: An empirical approach towards the scalability of business models". Jacques is a senior lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Science.