Paper: Diploma serves diplomacy – a different donor logic by China?
Affiliation: University of Bristol
Bursary Awarded: 2011
After my abstract was accepted, I applied conference bursary for the 11th UKFIET conference in the May of 2011. This was very important to me to attend the conference as I was a full time self-funded Ph.D. student, and I did not want to waste the opportunity to present my paper on the conference. With all of the proof documents sent, fortunately I received an email to confirm that my application was successful. In September I presented my paper, in the panel on the geopolitics of educational aid. The presentation received a lot of positive comments and interests on my study, and also formed a very constructive discussion afterwards. I answered all of the questions issued in the panel, on the other hand, received good amount of advice to my research. It was a great opportunity for me to discuss my study with researchers in this field and to meet people from broader areas within this network. This paper, after some revisions and corrections, finally was published on an international journal (‘China: an international journal’) after I graduated. Now I am working as a lecturer in Liverpool Hope University, and also an ordinary member within the executive committee of BAICE which has its annual conferences nested in UKFIET every 2 years. The 11th UKFIET experience and its ‘stimulation’ on my paper positively benefited me for these roles as an early career researcher. I would definitely suggest my students who are self-funded to try any opportunity to get a conference bursary.
Tingting presented her paper “diploma serves diplomacy – a different donor logic by China?”
