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SMU’s School of Social Sciences established a joint research centre with The State Innovative Institute for Public Management and Policy Studies, Fudan University in April 2013. This is SMU’s first joint research centre with an institution in China.
Fudan University, a C-9 university (China’s equivalent to the Ivy League), is considered one of the nation’s leading universities in social science research, among other fields. The joint research centre will focus on issues related to social development in China, including rural reform, land policy, migration, aging and other urgent issues. The centre will undertake a range of activities such as collaborative cutting-edge research on development policy in the Asia-Pacific; scholarly exchange; joint educational programmes for students at both graduate and undergraduate levels; and the organisation of international workshops and conferences on these issues. SMU’s Associate Professor of Sociology, Q. Forrest Zhang, will spend a six-month sabbatical at the centre to work closely with our counterparts at Fudan University.
The agreement was signed by Professor James T.H. Tang, Dean, School of Social Sciences, SMU and Professor Pang Xizhe, Director, The State Innovative Institute for Public Management and Policy Studies, Fudan University. This agreement was one of the six agreements signed on the same day at a ceremony attended by Professor Arnoud De Meyer, President, SMU and Professor Yang Yuliang, President, Fudan University. SMU has a longstanding relationship with Fudan University including an undergraduate student exchange programme.
