Podcasts by UCL-China Research Festival - Video
Over 320 people attended the UCL–China Research Festival, a showcase of the variety and volume of the university’s research collaborations with Chinese institutions held at UCL on 13 June 2008.
Academics, students, businesspeople and members of the public were treated to a total of nearly 30 presentations and poster displays on architecture and urban planning; biomaterials; archaeology and traditional medicine; medicine; psychology and social science; mapping; the environment; and chemistry and space.
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Climate change in northwest China over the past millennium from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Around half of the world’s population lives under the influence of the Asian monsoons. The sustainability of water resources, which is intimately tied up with future monsoon variability, is a criti...
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Lake sediment evidence for long-range air pollution on the Tibetan Plateau from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recent decades have seen the emergence of sign linguistics as a sub-discipline of linguistic research, accumulating a body of knowledge that has enlightened linguists about the complex grammatical ...
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The impact of Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment on the language development of deaf and hearing children in Hong Kong: A whole school case study from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recent decades have seen the emergence of sign linguistics as a sub-discipline of linguistic research, accumulating a body of knowledge that has enlightened linguists about the complex grammatical ...
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Differences in the neural basis of Chinese and English reading from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Introduction: Previous functional imaging studies comparing Chinese and English reading have reported that a left middle frontal region is more activated by Chinese reading and the left superior te...
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City history and multi-scale spatial master-planning from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The UK and Chinese Governments have agreed at the highest level to collaborate through the China-UK Sustainable Development Dialogue on research and knowledge exchange to help ensure that the way w...
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The Bases Of Rice Domestication In Lower Yangzte, China: Fifth Millennium BC Evidence For Early Cultivation And The Transition From Hunting & Gathering from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A complete revision to dating of early agriculture in the Lower Yangzte region of China is now underway as new methods for archaeobotanical analyses are being applied to trace the gradual evolution...
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Public Archaeology in China Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2006 Peter Ucko and Wang Tao visited more than ten universities in mainland China, in order to meet staff and students in each Department of Archaeology. We interviewed staff and students to fin...
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Early and traditional copper metallurgy in western China from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Copper underpins the technology and economy of most societies of the last four thousand years, and ancient China is no exception. It relies heavily on copper for the production of bronze objects, s...
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Modernism in China: Architectural Visions and Revolutions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
China’s development and speculation about its future impact on the world are stimulating considerable attention in design-related disciplines internationally. This process has already encouraged va...
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Sustainable Urban Systems to Transfer Achievable Implementation Network (SUSTAIN) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The main aim of SUSTAIN is to develop collaborative research proposals to investigate how to improve the development of sustainable cities. This will be achieved by convening a series of 4 workshop...
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Guangming Smart-city: A New Chinese City from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
By 2010 it is anticipated that half of China’s population will have moved from the countryside to the cities. The Chinese Government has recently presented Dongtan, near Shanghai, as their ecologic...
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Introduction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Opening of Festival by President and Provost Malcolm Grant
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Introduction from 2009-07-02T11:21:36
Opening of Festival by President and Provost Malcolm Grant
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Introduction from 2009-07-02T11:21:36
Opening of Festival by President and Provost Malcolm Grant
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