Manchester-Melbourne Water Research Symposium

This online symposium and networking workshop, brought to you by the University of Manchester (School of Environment, Education and Development) and the University of Melbourne (Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, Asia Institute), aims to promote interdisciplinary knowledge-sharing on water and facilitate knowledge exchange in human and environmental geography and allied disciplines (e.g., politics, sociology, development studies, environmental sciences, architecture and planning, environmental engineering, ecology, etc.). This network is initiated by Dongyang MI (Manchester) and Mengyao LI (Melbourne) as part of their GOLDEN (Global Doctoral Research Network) Partnerships through the Universities of Manchester and Melbourne supported by Dr Alison Browne, Prof. Deljana Iossifova, Dr Saska Petrova (Manchester) and Dr Sarah Rogers, Prof. Mark Wang (Melbourne). The network will be followed by a series of symposiums, workshops, seminars and networking events for extended discussion to explore water research in China and other Asian countries.

Join us to be part of the network!

Register and join the mailing list to receive regular updates on upcoming news, events and activities.

Event 1: China Water Network Symposium

29th November , 2022

09:00 - 10:00 GMT/UTC+0 (UK)

20:00 - 21:00 AEDT/UTC +11 (AU)

17:00 - 18:00 CST/UTC +8 (CN)

The symposium will be hosted by early-career researchers and senior researchers from the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne. This event is an opportunity to hear the latest work on China water research across both academic institutions, with short provocations from leading scholars. There will also be a Q&A session, where participants will have the opportunity to discuss the presentations.

Speaker Biographies:

• Prof. Deljana Iossifova

Dr Deljana Iossifova is Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Manchester. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Architecture and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Studies Foundation and AzuKo Foundation. She is PI and International Lead on SASSI and TOSSIB. She has worked on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), complex urban transformations, cities and biodiversity and the human ecosystems of ageing in China and other countries in the Global East and South.

• Prof. Mark Wang

Professor Mark Wang is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. His recent research concerns China’s land acquisition, resettlement/displacement, migration, and water management.

• Dr Han Xiao

Dr. Xiao Han is an Associate Professor at Hohai University in China and an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her research interests include assemblage thinking, critical hydropolitics, payment for ecosystem services and agrarian change.

Housekeeping:

The events will be streamed live through Zoom. Please ensure you download Zoom and create an account prior to the event.

This session will be recorded and auto-transcribed. The recording along with the transcript will able to watch on our official YouTube channel (China Water Network) after the event has ended.

Follow us on Twitter (China Water Network/@ChinaWaterNet) to get more updates on the latest related events.

If you have any accessibility requirements or additional queries, please contact Dongyang Mi at dongyang.mi@manchester.ac.uk or Mengyao Li at mengyaol7@student.unimelb.edu.au. Please note we require two working days' notice for requests.