Strengthening Birmingham in Hong Kong

Strengthening Birmingham in Hong Kong

Tuesday 31 May
18:15 - 19:30 HKT | 11:15 - 12:30 BST

Online via Zoom

The Board of Directors of the University of Birmingham Hong Kong Foundation invites you to celebrate the international partnership between Hong Kong, the University of Birmingham and the Foundation.

This online webinar will be an opportunity to celebrate the Foundation's first funding awards. We are looking forward to hearing from our speakers about how much-needed funds from the Foundation, generously donated by our Founding Donors, will make a difference to their work here in Hong Kong.

Please register to attend by email. 

Our speakers are:

Geoffrey Ma Law Prizes
Professor Lisa Webley, Chair in Legal Education and Research; Head of Birmingham Law School
Hear how these prizes are already allowing the best and the brightest students from Hong Kong to follow in your footsteps to Birmingham. Hear how scholarship holders were selected and future plans for the Geoffrey Ma Scholarship programme.

Changing Childhoods in a Changing World
Professor Deborah Youdell, Head of the School of Education; Professor of Sociology of Education
In partnership with the Educational University of Hong Kong, this ground-breaking research aims to understand how children (four to five years old) learn how to learn, bringing together classroom observations with measurements of their biochemistry. It will give insight into how learning activities stimulate biological responses related to emotional wellbeing and cognitive learning.

Mapping Microplastics and Types in Hong Kong Rivers and the Pearl River Delta
Iseult Lynch, Professor of Environmental Nanosciences and Stefan Krause, Professor of Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
In collaboration with HKU, this project aims to sample microplastics gathered from the six major rivers of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (a major source of plastic pollution worldwide). This will be the most comprehensive mapping ever undertaken, with data then used to model the environmental impact and how it can be averted.

We do hope that you can join us to celebrate the vital links between Hong Kong and the University of Birmingham. Please register to attend by email.