Events

Through innovative strategic cooperation, the LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy is committed to benefit China, the UK and the world.

Getting schools to work better: insights and reflections from China and India

Thursday 21 March 2024

6.30pm-8.00pm GMT

This event launches the book Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China by Yifei Yan

Getting schools to work better is a challenge just about everywhere. Many policy experts prescribe measures for strengthening school accountability either by government command and control or through alternative market and societal actors. In challenging this conventional wisdom, Yifei Yan's book examines how China and India are tackling the challenge of getting schools to work better, with a specific focus on supporting teachers, along with traditional accountability-strengthening measures. The book draws implications from its case studies for how education systems can be designed to enhance student learning towards the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal 4.

This book will appeal to a wide spectrum of scholars and practitioners in the fields of comparative education, public administration, public policy, and development studies, among others. It will be especially interesting to those from the developing world facing similar accountability challenges described.

More about our speaker and chair

Discussant: Mobarak Hossain is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy, LSE.

Speaker: Yifei Yan is Assistant Professor in Public Administration and Public Policy at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton. Her research on comparative public policy and administration has won international awards from the Indian Public Policy Network and European Group for Public Administration, among others.

Chair: Shuang Chen is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the Department of Social Policy, LSE.

Venue: MAR. 1.08, Marshall Building, LSE

More information about the event and how to register can be found here.

Fast-tracked city unbound? Speed, scale, and risk in China’s overseas investment

Thursday 14 March 2024

12.30pm-2.00pm GMT

Fast urbanism has been one of the key aspirational characteristics of contemporary China. Speedy construction and economy of scale have enabled the rapid process of urbanisation in China. In recent years, real estate developers, who facilitated urban accumulation, have also attempted to advance into overseas markets, including London, which is the main case study for this paper. How do the experiences of speedy and large-scale urban development in China translate to overseas destinations? What risk aversion strategies do they adopt? What does this tell us about the nature and agents of capital? To address these questions, this talk engages with an in-depth empirical study of an urban redevelopment project in East London that involved a Chinese developer. By evaluating the business practices of the Chinese developer in London and tracing such practices back to China, this talk aims to shed light on the nature of urban manifestations of global China and the meaning of ‘ethnic capital’.

Speaker: Professor Hyun Bang Shin (Department of Geography and Environment, LSE)

Chair: Dr Timothy Hildebrandt (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Venue: CBG.1.05 (1st floor), Centre Building, LSE

Lunch and refreshments will be served before the seminar.

This seminar is open to LSE staff and students only.

Visualising China’s Story in Museum Exhibitions: Insights from the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Wednesday 28 February 2024

17.00pm-18.30pm GMT

This seminar is organized by LSE Global China working group. It is for PhD researhcers and early career scholars at LSE and beyond working on China and global south related studies. It is a forum for discussions and questions on China in development contexts. Researchers from all theoretical backgrounds and methodological traditions are welcome.

Speaker: Giulia Sciorati (LSE Fellow, Department of International Relations)

This seminar will be hosted in hybrid format, via Zoom and in-person at LSE Connaught House 7.05, LSE

If you would like to join the working group, attend the seminar, and/or present in the future, please email Yuezhou Yang (y.yang91@lse.ac.uk)

New Thinking on Rural Development in China

Tuesday 13 February 2024

12.30pm-2.00pm GMT

The talk will present China’s ongoing rural revitalisation program through different cases. The speaker has been working on rural development programs in Yunnan, China since 2015. Faced with challenges of rural-urban disparity and rural decline, it is critical to explore new development approach by adopting rural-urban parallel rather than sequential transformation. Rural revitalisation program is not simply increasing investment but focusing on regenerating new rural economy appropriate for small-holder farmers’ development. The speaker argues that in the past two decades, the development process from poverty reduction to rural revitalisation in rural China has produced a new development narrative. But it has been largely ignored by the development community.

Speaker: Professor Xiaoyun Li (China Agricultural University).

Chair: Professor James Putzel (Department of International Development).

Venue: CKK.1.07 (1st floor), Cheng Kin Ku Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE

Lunch and refreshments will be served before the seminar.

This seminar is open to LSE staff and students only.

Watch the seminar here. Listen to the podcast here.

‘A Tale of Two Chinas in Africa’: Multistakeholder perspectives on Chinese involvement in mining for critical raw materials in Namibia

Wednesday 31 January 2024

17.00pm-18.30pm GMT

Speaker: M. Adil Sait (PhD Candidate in Economic Geography, LSE)

This seminar will be hosted in hybrid format, via Zoom and in-person at LSE Connaught House 7.05, LSE

If you would like to join the working group, attend the seminar, and/or present in the future, please email Yuezhou Yang (y.yang91@lse.ac.uk)

Workshop: China and the World: A Critical Discussion on State Capacity in the Developing Countries

Monday 29 January 2024

10.00am-4.00pm GMT

The rise of China and the Global South has put the conventional narrative of weak state capacity of developing countries under scrutiny. This workshop brings together scholars working on contemporary issues in developing countries from a state capacity perspective.

Participants are urged to present their work in progress or unpublished articles, as the workshop is designed in a manner to share on-going work and receive feedback.

We leave it to the discretion of the participants on what they wish to present and receive feedback (e.g. research question, framework, methodology, applications).

Programme can be viewed here.

Chairs: Dr Yuezhou Yang (Research Fellow, LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub) and Dr Tanvi Deshpande (Research Fellow, LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub).

Venue: Connaught House 7.05, LSE

China and the World Seminar Series:The Evolution of China's Development Cooperation

Thursday 25 January 2024

12.30pm-2.00pm GMT

The talk will review three changes that drives the transition of China’s international development cooperation system: narrative change, institutional change, and strategic change. It will then analyze the recent trends of development finance between China and OECD DAC countries. It argues that, despite some conceptual and structural differences, China and DAC countries demonstrate similar patterns of development finance in aligning development and foreign policy goals.

Speaker: Professor Yu Zheng (Fudan University).

Chair: Professor Bingchun Meng (Director of the LSE-Fudan Global Policy Hub).

Venue: CBG.1.05 (1st floor), Centre Building, LSE

Lunch and refreshments will be served before the seminar.

This seminar is open to LSE staff and students only.

Watch the seminar here. Listen to the podcast here.

China and the World Seminar Series:The Role of Institutions in Urban Climate Governance: Learnings From the Global South

Wednesday 6 December 2023

1:00pm-2.00pm GMT (online, please note the event has been moved online due to rail strikes)

Within the ecosystem of urban climate governance, Dr Deshpande seeks to understand the role of local institutions in pursuing urban climate policy or action in the Global South. Countries in the Global South are experiencing rapid urbanization and the city or municipal governments, operating under weak or under-developed governance structures, are struggling to meet the needs of a growing urban population. Under such circumstances it seems unlikely that these local institutions would possess the capacity to pursue urban climate action or policy. The aim of Dr Deshpande's research is to unpack urban climate policymaking and understand the role of local institutions in this process.

Speaker: Dr Tanvi Deshpande (Research Fellow, LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub).

Chair: Professor Bingchun Meng (Co-Director of the LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy and the LSE-Fudan Global Policy Hub).

Watch the seminar here. Listen to the podcast here.

LSE-Fudan Annual Conference 2023 - Public Policy Priorities and Challenges for China and the World

21 - 22 November 2023

LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy/ Global Public Policy Hub will hold its Annual Conference 2023 at the LSE devoted to public policy challenges and priorities for China and other countries.

For more information, please see conference page.

Global China as Method? Excellent Idea! But How? — A Reflection on My 8-Year Ground-Based Research on Chinese Outward FDI in Africa and Europe

Wednesday 15 November 2023

17.00pm-18.30pm GMT

This seminar is organized by LSE Global China working group. It is for PhD researhcers and early career scholars at LSE and beyond working on China and global south related studies. It is a forum for discussions and questions on China in development contexts. Researchers from all theoretical backgrounds and methodological traditions are welcome.

Speaker: Weiwei Chen (Research Associate at Open University).

This seminar will be hosted in hybrid format, via Zoom and in-person at LSE Connaught House 7.04, LSE

If you would like to join the working group, attend the seminar, and/or present in the future, please email Yuezhou Yang (y.yang91@lse.ac.uk)

The Development Dilemma: Geopolitical Contestation and its Impact on African Nations

Wednesday 8 November 2023

17.00pm-18.30pm GMT

Speaker: Obert Hodzi (Senior Lecturer at University of Liverpool).

This seminar will be hosted in hybrid format, via Zoom and in-person at LSE Connaught House 7.04, LSE

If you would like to join the working group, attend the seminar, and/or present in the future, please email Yuezhou Yang (y.yang91@lse.ac.uk)

China and the World Seminar Series: Property Institutions and State Capacity: Comparative Analysis of Chinese Agricultural Projects in Zambia

Thursday 26 October 2023

12.30pm-2.00pm GMT

A long-standing literature argues that African states have weak capacity, especially in regulating its land. Increasingly, scholarly work on foreign land acquisition in developing countries recognizes the ‘active state’ explanations that the African states and subnational actors have played an important and diverse role in (re)structuring access and control over land and natural resources. In this talk Dr Yang will contribute to this scholarship by focusing on the role of African property institutions and propose a theory of how land tenure regimes structure the processes of investment, including land acquisition and continued control over land after acquired.

Speaker: Dr Yuezhou Yang (Research Fellow, LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub).

Chair: Professor Bingchun Meng (LSE-Fudan Hub Council Member).

Venue: The Sumeet Valrani theatre, Centre Building, LSE

Lunch and refreshments will be served before the seminar.

This seminar is open to LSE staff and students only.

Expropriating Land for Rail: Contested Land Governance and Citizenship Along China-Led Rail Development in Kenya

Wednesday 18 October 2023

17.00pm-18.30pm GMT

Speaker: Dr Yuezhou Yang (Research Fellow, LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub).

This seminar will be hosted in hybrid format, via Zoom and in-person at LSE Connaught House 7.04, LSE

If you would like to join the working group, attend the seminar, and/or present in the future, please email Yuezhou Yang (y.yang91@lse.ac.uk)

AT 2023 seminars are funded by LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub

Civilizational Public Administration: An Imagination or A Necessity?

Friday, 24 March 2023

This is Lecture 36 of the Fudan-LSE Lecture Series. Chair: Professor Yijia Jing (IGPP, Fudan University). Speaker: Professor Lihua Yang (School of Government, Peking University)

More information available here.

Inaugural Annual Conference 2022

Global Public Policy: Challenges and Prospects

On 17 November LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Centre and Hub held the inagural Annual Conference 2022.

The conference summaries are available here.

The full programme of the conference is available here.

Pension Policy and Governmentality in China: Manufacturing public compliance

Monday, 7 November LSE-Fudan Hub together with LSE Press held a book launch event for Dr. Yang Wang and her newly published book on pension policy and governmentality in China. The event was chaired by Head of LSE Press, Professor Patrick Dunleavy. Speakers also included Professor Noam Yuchtman (Department of Management) and Dr. Carrie Friese (Depatment of Sociology).

Video of the event is available here.

The LSE - Fudan Two Day Lecture Series

A two-day lecture series was held on 27 and 28 June 2022 aimed potential students wishing to enrol in the double degree programmes of the two universities. Currently, students wishing to study on the double degree programme can chooce between Global Political Economy, Social Policy, International Development and Media and Communications.

Launch Event

China and the World in the Post-COVID Era: a new agenda of public policy

Celebrating the launch of the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub, the online public event "China and the World in the Post-COVID Era: a new agenda of public policy" will take place on Monday 21 February 2022, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.

In the event, experts in health policy, development economics, urban governance and public administration will be discussing key public policy challenges that China and the world faces post-pandemic.

This event forms part of LSE’s Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative, a series about the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis.

Find out more.

Listen to the podcast or watch the video.