SJTU/Warwick Global Challenge 2025
Overview
When is it?
23 June - 16 July 2025, Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 12:00 (BST)
How does it work?
Undergraduate students from across a range of subject areas at Warwick will team up virtually with students from SJTU. Academic experts from SJTU and Warwick will deliver three weeks of structured teaching and support. Students give group presentations the following week.
Who can apply?
Any Warwick undergraduate students with an interest in history, global trade, cultural studies, and sustainable development. You will need to be available to attend the full programme period to participate.
Programme Highlights
- Expert Guidance: Learn from leading academics from top-tier institutions.
- Global Experience: Work with peers from across the globe.
- Hands-On Projects: Engage in research and collaborative group projects.
- Critical Skills Development: Enhance your intercultural communication, teamwork, and presentation skills.
- Career Preparation: Boost your global career readiness in a cross-cultural academic environment.
Course Structure
- Week 1: Introduction to port cities, globalization, and cultural perspectives (Shanghai, Hong Kong).
- Week 2: Global Encounters between China and Europe, sustainable development, and group research.
- Week 3: Advanced research methods, including digital humanities and linguistic superdiversity.
- Week 4: Final group presentations and project evaluations.
Key Topics
- The historical significance and modern transformation of port cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong.
- Understanding vulnerabilities and resilience in port cities.
- Applying big data mining and digital humanities to global economic history.
- Exploring linguistic superdiversity and its role in shaping port city dynamics.
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Prof Manuel Perez-Garcia - Associate Professor, History
- Dr Flair Donglai Shi - Associate Professor, World Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies
University of Warwick
- Prof Tim Lockley - Head of History Department
- Dr Pierre Purseigle - Associate Professor, History
- Dr Jonathan Clark - Associate Professor, Global Sustainable Development
Research Assistant Team
- Dr Helena Wall - Associate Tutor, Applied Linguistics, Warwick
- Dr Ayten Alibaba - Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development, Warwick
- Enchao Yang - Teaching Assistant, Department of History, SJTU
Applications close at noon (BST) on 30 April 2025
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Academic reference
To complete your application a reference is required. You are responsible for requesting an academic reference from someone within your department, to include grade average to date (if you are in your second year of degree or higher this can be your previous year(s) average). They can complete the reference form here.Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
This must be submitted by the above deadline, along with your application - your application will not be considered without a reference
