Recipients of 2020/21 UCL-SJTU Strategic Partner Funds

16 February 2021

Congratulations to the awardees of the first joint seed funding call from UCL and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University campus in Xujiahui district, Shanghai

In the first UCL-Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) Strategic Partner Funds, aimed at supporting听the development of collaborative research and education initiatives,听eight projects were听awarded funding of up to 拢10,000 each.

Submissions were听assessed by a committee composed of members from both institutions, with UCL and SJTU contributing matching funds to support the successful proposals.

The applications focused on the mutual priorities of mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

One of this year鈥檚 recipients, Dr Jie Liu (Institute of Education), said: 鈥淚 feel very honoured to receive this funding together with my colleague at SJTU, Dr Xinghua (Kevin) Liu. Our project will pilot a telecollaboration platform where SJTU and UCL students can provide feedback on one another鈥檚 academic writings in an authentic cross-cultural rhetoric situation. We look forward to the exciting outcomes of the collaboration and the opportunity to strengthen links between the two universities.鈥�

Congratulations to all the 2020/21 recipients of the UCL-SJTU Strategic Partner Funds:

Lead UCL applicant	Faculty	Project
Dr Tracey Clarke	Maths & Physical Sciences听	Alleviating loss mechanisms in organic photovoltaics for a clean energy future
Professor Paul Ekins	The Bartlett	Implementing the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework for China and its provinces
Dr Dan Frampton	Medical Sciences听	SJTU School of Medicine and UCL COVID-19 genomics training course
Professor Andrew Hudson-Smith	The Bartlett	Remote Experiences Across Campuses & Heritage via Online University Teleportation (REACH OUT)
Dr Jie Liu	Institute of Education听	Fostering cross-cultural awareness through telecollaboration
Dr Antonio Lombardo	Maths & Physical Sciences听	Rapid on-chip COVID-19 detection using carbon-based nanomaterials field-effect transistors
Dr Parashkev Nachev	Brain Sciences听	Developing a framework for unified high-resolution oxygenation and metabolic imaging in acute stroke
Professor Nicolae-Coriolan Panoiu	Engineering Sciences	Chemical and biological sensors implemented in a topological photonics platform

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