Category: Capacity Building

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

CERA Annual Conference 2021 ‘call for abstracts’ is open. The conference this year will be held online from 30th June to 3th July 2021. 

Education for Sustainable Development and Social Wellbeing 

The conference theme this year is ‘Education for sustainable development and social wellbeing’.  The conference theme this year seeks to explore the role of education for sustainable development and social wellbeing. At the global level, it responds to the UN-led Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in which social wellbeing is given a key position. At the national level, it considers the global Covid-19 pandemic as a microcosm invoking a range of social issues, concerns and actions. We, therefore, welcome participants to reflect on their thoughts on the role of education within broader social and environmental concerns, to show examples of local activities that promote sustainable thinking and practice, and to share their visions on future research and practice for building an inclusive and resilient society.

Please click here for detailed information regarding the conference theme, abstraction submission, and fees.

The deadline for abstract submission is  26 April 2021. Please click here to submit your abstract. 

We would be grateful if you could circulate this CALL FOR ABSTRACTS amongst your colleagues or friends who might be interested.

If you are interested in being a volunteer to help organize the conference, please feel free to contact us. Your participation is most welcome!

If you are interested in becoming a member of CERA or if you have joined the membership but have not registered with us, please follow this link for membership registration: http://www.cerauk.org/new-member/

Best regards,

CERA-UK Annual Conference 2021 Committee

ceraannualconference@gmail.com

www.cerauk.org

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London, 31 August – 3 September 2021

CFP: The Bordering Process of Transnational Migrants in Urban Spaces with/without the pandemic of COVID-19

Co-Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group, the Urban Geography Research Group and the Postgraduate Forum

Session Conveners: Yunting QI (Royal Holloway University of London)and Tat-in TAM (Royal Holloway University of London)

Theorising borders and bordering process has been pivotal to understand contemporary human mobility and related socio-spatial changes (Rumford, 2006). As a representation of the dichotomy of inside/outside, border could provide both constraints and opportunities for human mobilities (Sohn, 2016). (Un)skilled transnational migrants move across the nation-state borders as well as the municipal borders for personal or familial interests; meanwhile, they also establish various (in)visible borders through their everyday practices (Saint-Blancat & Cancellieri, 2014; Sidaway, 2011; Wang & Shen, 2009). Urban spaces could actively engage into the bordering process of transnational migrants through landscapes, urban infrastructures and urban governance (Smith & Guarnizo, 2009). The borders experienced by transnational migrants in urban space could be in multiple (in)tangible forms and imply distinct cultural meanings for different individuals (Qian, 2014; Rumford, 2012). Also, the borders are embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts and various capitals of transnational migrants (Egbert, 2006). This session hopes to highlight the latest theoretical/practical trend of borders/bordering related to transnational migrants in urban spaces.

This session eagerly welcomes thoughts and researches on how the pandemic of COVID-19 engages into the bordering processes in urban spaces. For example, many cities have established quarantine areas (e.g., hotels or hospitals) for transnational migrants who just finished a journey from a high risk nation. The quarantine border is not only in tangible forms of walls and gates, but also in intangible forms constituted by other urban residents’ fear and estrangement. We look forward to more insightful voices about the bordering process and the pandemic.

This session welcomes papers from, but not limited to, the following themes:

• The shifting nature of borders in urban spaces
• Everyday practices of transnational migrants in the city
• Territorialisation of ethnic enclave in cities
• Transnational migrants’ right to city
• Empowering and disempowering of transnational migrants in the city
• New research approaches and methodologies

The session will be in fully virtual form. We are looking for about 5 papers in this session. Each presenter will give 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Please send your paper title, abstract (250 words max.), email address and affiliation to Yunting Qi (Yunting.Qi.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk) and Tat-in Tam (Dennis.Tam.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk) by 1 March 2021.

Call for participation:

招募研究参与者：

International Students’ Experiences of UK Universities during Covid-19

新冠疫情下英国大学国际留学生线上学习经历调查研究

Hello, we are two researchers: Cristina and Huaping. We are currently recruiting 2^nd/3^rd/4^th year non-EU international undergraduate students studying at a UK university to explore their experiences of transitioning studies from on-campus to on-line during Covid-19.

大家好，我们是两位研究者：Cristina 和李华平！我们目前正在招募以下研究参与者：在英国大学留学的本科二、三、四年级的、中国学生及其他非欧盟国家学生。

If you meet the requirements and would like to participate in and/or find out more about the study, please get in touch with us (please see contact details below).

假如你们符合以上条件，并感兴趣参与或者想了解更多有关我们的研究项目的话，请记得联系我们（联系方式请看下面）。

Your participation in the study will be invaluable in that it will allow us to understand how we can better support you in moments like the one we are currently facing.

你们的参与将对我们来说意义非凡，因为你们的参与将会帮助我们了解当前疫情下国际留学生的线上学习现状，并为你们提供更好的支持。

Participation in the study consists of reflective diary entries (2 entries a month for a period of 3 months) about your experiences of university during Covid-19. Prompts will be provided to you to guide your reflection. Upon completion of the diaries, you will be rewarded a £30 voucher in appreciation for your contribution.

参与此研究的第一阶段主要是三个月的反思日记，每月两次，每次记录一点新冠疫情下线上学习经历的感想。请不用担心，我们将会为你们提供一些有助于思考的问题；你也可以用你喜欢的语言写。为答谢你们，每一位参与者在日记反思阶段结束后将获得30镑购物券。

Participants willing to participate further in the project may be invited at a later date to partake in a 1-2-1 interview or focus group. A £10 thank-you voucher for each will be gifted.

参与此研究的第二阶段是：我们将邀请有时间且愿意继续参与此研究的参与者参与一对一的访谈或小组访谈。

If you are interested in participating in our project, please get in touch with us via email:

假如你们感兴趣参与我们的研究，请联系我们：

Cristina Costa: cristina.costa@durham.ac.uk, or

Huaping Li: huaping_li@shnu.edu.cn （请记得名和姓之间的下划线）

Call for Nominations: CIES East Asia SIG Awards

Nominations are due December 15, 2020

The CIES East Asia SIG is pleased to announce two new awards that will begin this year – the Best Paper Award and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award. The purpose of these awards is to recognize, support, and advance outstanding research on East Asian education. While authors do not have to be East Asia SIG members at the time of submission, if awarded, they should register as members by the time of the East Asia SIG business meeting of the CIES 2021
Annual Conference, where winners will be recognized.

Please send all submissions and inquiries to: Yoonjeon Kim, Chair East Asia SIG Awards Committee at yoonjeon@berkeley.edu by December 15th, 2020. In the email subject line, please identify the submission/inquiry and the particular award.

Best Paper
Submissions for the 2021 best paper award should be a journal article or contributed chapter published in 2019 or 2020 on any topic related to East Asian education. The paper can be published as “online first” or in print but may be considered for the award only once. A pdf version of the published paper should be accompanied with a short letter (max 2 pages) highlighting the relevance and importance of the paper in relation to East Asian education, broadly defined. Self-submission is welcome.

Best Graduate Student Paper
Submissions for the best graduate student paper can be either a recently published (2019 or 2020) or unpublished (e.g., presented at a conference, under review for publication) paper on any topic related to East Asian education written by a graduate student at the time of submission. The paper can be solo-authored or co-authored as long as the first author is a graduate student at the time of submission. Unpublished papers should not exceed 10,000 words, including the abstract, endnotes, and references. A pdf version of the paper should be accompanied with a short letter (max 2 pages) highlighting the relevance and importance of the paper in relation to East Asian education, broadly defined. Self-submission is welcome. The graduate student winner will receive a $200 stipend to offset travel costs to attend the CIES 2021 Annual Conference.

Jennifer Adams, East Asia SIG Chair

Min Yu, East Asia SIG Vice-Chair

Yoonjeon Kim, East Asia SIG Treasurer/Secretary and Awards Committee Chair