The 10th Global China Dialogue (GCD X)
Governance for Global Education

Friday, 5th December 2025
8:30-17:00, GCD X：Beatrice Webb Room, The British Academy, UK

Organizers

• Global China Academy, UK
• ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK
• Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
• Institute for Communication Studies of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), China

The GCD X include the following four panels:

• Panel 1 Governance Innovation and Technological Empowerment 
• Panel 2 Educational Equity, Inclusion, and Quality Assurance 
• Panel 3 Global Education Policy and International Cooperation 
• Panel 4 Education Financing and Sustainable Development 

Visit Call for Papers for more details

Programme

08:30-09:00   Registration

Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

• Check-in (Lobby, Ground Floor)
• Networking (Gallery, 1st Floor)
• Display and video play (Music Room, 1^st Floor)

09:00-10:10    Opening Session

Room: The Beatrice Webb Room, 1^st Floor

Chair: Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS FRSA FGCA and Chair of Global China Academy Council; Council Member of Academy of Social Sciences; Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Greetings (5 minutes each):

• Minister WangQi from the Chinese Embassy to the UK 
• Dr Alexis Brown, Head of Global Education Insights at the British Council, UK
• Professor Martin Jacques FGCA, British scholar, journalist, political commentator and author; and Visiting Professor or Senior Research Fellow at muiltiple leading universities around the world
• Professor Kerry Brown FGCA, Director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK

Keynote speakers (15 minutes each, 2):

• How should education respond to the challenge of Generative AI? Professor Rupert Wegerif, Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, Governing Body Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
• Think Globally, Understand Locally, Act Internationally- Exploration for Future Education, Professor Youmin Xi, Executive President of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China; Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, UK

10:00-10:10 Presentation of Certificates to GCA Fellows and Appointment Letters to GCA Vice-Presidents

Presenters:

• Professor Maria Jaschok FGCA, Chair of GCA Board of Trustees; Senior Research Associate of the Contemporary China Studies Programme, University of Oxford
• Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA FGCA, President of Global China Academy, Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20), Distinguished Professor of Nankai University

Recipients:

• GCA Fellows, Associate Fellow and Institutional Fellows
• GCA vice-Presidents

Photos:

• Small group photo for: chair, presenter and Fellows and appointed Vice-Presidents
• Group photo: all

10:10-11:20    Panel 1: Governance Innovation and Technological Empowerment

Chair and discussant: Professor Madeline Carr FGCA, Secretary of GCA Board of Trustees; Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity at University College London, UK

Speakers (10 minutes each):

• Developing Critical AI Literacies in Language Education, Dr Niall Curry FRSA FGCA SFHEA, Reader in Languages and Linguistics and UKRI Metascience AI Fellow, School of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
• Artificial Intelligence for EFL Education: Pedagogical Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions, Dr Frances Yiying Zhang, Lecturer in Chinese Studies and Departmental Academic Convenor at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Legal Education, Dr Weiwei Shen is an Associate Professor at the Law School of China University of Political Science and Law, where he directs the Center for Legal Studies on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence and serves as Deputy Director within the Department of Constitutional Law; currently a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK
• Blessing-Centred Education: The Humanistic Supplement of Technological Empowerment in Collaborative Governance, Dr Tracy Liu, PhD Graduate, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Transforming Screen Time into Philosophy Time: Empowering Families through Inquiry-Based Learning, Dr. Yukun Shi, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance with Data Analytics, Director of postgraduate research at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK; President of the Chinese Econmy Associatation (Erope)

Discussion, Q&A

11:20-11:35    Coffee/tea break

11:35-12:45    Panel 2: Educational Equity, Inclusion, and Quality Assurance

Chair and discussant: Professor Maria Jaschok FGCA, Chair of GCA Board of Trustees; Senior Research Associate of the Contemporary China Studies Programme, University of Oxford

Speakers (12 minutes each):

• Process or product? Rethinking language learning and assessment in the age of AI, Professor Vaclav Brezina, Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University
• Beyond Inclusion: The Equity Blueprint and the Transformation of Educational Systems, Lucy Robin,  Every Parent & Child in London as the ABC Parents Child Health Champions Lead; the creator of The Equity Blueprint, a governance framework 
• Can Education Bring a Better Life? — Lessons from Minority Girls’ Schooling on the China–Myanmar Border, Professor TENG Xing, Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China, and the founder and inaugural Chair of the Education Anthropology Committee of the China Ethnology and Anthropology Association
• From global standards to local voices: Ensuring equity and integrity in assessment in an AI-driven worldy, Dr Paraskevi (Voula) Kanistra, Associate Director/Senior Researcher at Trinity College London, UK

Discussion, Q&A

12:45-13:45    Lunch

13:00-15:00    GCA Board of Trustees meeting in the Music Room

13:45-14:55    Panel 3: Global Education Policy and International Cooperation

Chair and discussant: Professor Peter Schroeder FGCA and Vice-President of Global China Academy, Professor of the History of Political Thought, Department of History, University College London

Speakers (12 minutes each):

• Global Englishes and Education Policy: Rethinking International Cooperation in Higher Education, Professor Nicola Galloway, School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
• Teaching Between Systems: What Transcultural Classroom Experience Can Contribute to Global Education Policy, Richard Anthony Ridealgh, PhD Candidate in Education at the University of Manchester, UK; Curriculum Director and Senior Head Teacher at Barbara’s Academy, Shenyang, China
• A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese Language Promotion Policies in UK Higher Education, Yi Yang, Chinese lecturer at Regent’s University London and a PhD student at Durham University, UK
• Reimagining Internationalisation, Professor Steven Jones, Professor of Higher Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK

Discussion, Q&A

14:55-15:10    Coffee/tea break

15:10-16:20    Panel 4 Education Financing and Sustainable Development

Chair and discussant: Mr. Charles Grant, Trustee of the Global China Academy Broad of Trustees and Director of the Centre for European Reform

Speakers (12 minutes each):

• An educational response to the climate and nature emergency, Professor Justin Dillon, Professor of Science and Environmental Education, IOE, University College London, UK
• The Chinese research landscape: trends in UK-China collaboration, Dr Alexis Brown, Head of Global Education Insights at the British Council, UK
• Beyond Funding: How Digital Ecosystems Shape the Sustainability of UK–China Educational Exchange, Professor Martin Lockett, professor in the Depart ment of International Business and Management, former Dean of the Faculty of Business at the Universi ty of Nottingham Ningbo China
• AI and Liberal Arts Education: The BNBU Paradigm in China and Its Global Outreach, Professor CHEN Zhi FHKAH, President of Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), China (video)

Discussion, Q&A

16:20-16:55    Closing Session

Chair: Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA FGCA and President of Global China Academy, Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20), Distinguished Professor of Nankai University  

Closing remarks (10 minutes each):

• Tribute to a Bridge of Knowledge: Reflections on the 10 years’ Global China Dialogue, Professor Martin Albrow, FAcSS FRSA FGCA and Founding and Past Honorary President of GCA (2013–2021), Emeritus Professor of University Cardiff, Former President of the British Sociological Association (BSA),  UK
• Bridging Worlds: Governance, Culture, and Collaboration in Global Education, Dr Yukteshwar Kumar, Senior Academic of Chinese stream at the University of Bath and a distinguished scholar of China–UK-India; Former Deputy Mayor of Bath, UK
• Global Education in Dialogue: Reflections and Ways Forward, Professor Li Li FGCA, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (designate), Newcastle University; Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement, University of Exeter; Founder and Director of Exeter-Tsinghua Joint Institute for Global Humanities, UK

16:50 Announcements & Group Photo

• Announcement of the theme of the 11th Global China Dialogue
• Group photo of all participants

17:00  Close

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18:30-21:00   Dinner for the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Global China Dialogue (by Invitation only)

Venue: Peacock London, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7PB, UK

Chair: Ian Stafford FGCA, founder of the Sport Club and a multiple award-winning English sports journalist, author (of 23 books) and broadcaster, UK

18:30-18:50 Greetings in person (3 minutes each):

• Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS FRSA FGCA and Chair of Global China Academy Council; Council Member of Academy of Social Sciences; Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University.
• Vice-President (European engagement), Prof Laurence Roulleau-Berger, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Triangle, France 
• Professor David Parkin FBA FGCA, Emeritus Professor of social anthropology, Fellow of All Souls College, at the University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow at SOAS, UK
• Professor Fiona Moore FGCA, School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

19:00 Dinner and play video (1 minute each. They will be shown during breaks at the Dialogue and again during the dinner)

1. From some absent GCA Board of Trustees, GCA Council, and GCA Fellows (1 minutes each, tbc)

2. From the speakers have either accepted the conference invitation or had their abstracts accepted, but are unable to travel to the UK to attend in person due to unforeseen circumstances.

• Greeting at the Opening Session, Professor Geoffrey Pleyers, FNRS Research Director & Professor UCLouvain, Belgium; President of the International Sociological Association
• Greeting at the Opening Session, Professor CHEN Zhi FHKAH, President of Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), China
• The Paradigm Revolution of Education in the Age of AI and the Power to Define the Future, Professor LIN Tianqiang, CEO and Director of Beijing Eternal Love Film & Media Co., Ltd; Chair of Digital Culture Industry and Finance Committee, China Cultural Information Association (CCIA)；Former Deputy Director of Institute for Internet Industry, Tsinghua University, China
• Use of Artificial Intelligence for the Early Detection of School Dropout in Vulnerable Communities: A Comparative Approach between Ecuador and China, Joan Andrade, a university student and teaching assistant in Systems Engineering, with strong training in programming, artificial intelligence, and web systems development, Universidad Yachay Tech, Ecuador
• Bridging Educational Gaps for Muslim Hui Girls in Northwestern China’s Dual Schooling Landscape, Beibei Gao, PhD Candidate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• New Research Universities of Science and Technology in China: A Social Innovation Legitimized by Technology and Economic Innovation, Dr LI Xu, Associate Dean of the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China (pre-recorded video)
• Proactive Responses: The Interplay Between Academic Careers, Higher Education Financing, and Sustainable Development, LI Rongwei, PhD Candidate at the Institute of Higher Education, Fudan University, China

21:00  Close

Supporters

• Centre for European Reform, UK
• China–Europa Forum, France
• Chopsticks Club, UK
• Digital Economy and Sustainable Development Institute (DESDiN), School of Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
• Linguistics Institute at Sun Yat-sen University
• Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China
• Research Centre for Studies of Sociological Theory and Methods, Renmin University of China
• Society for Anglo–Chinese Understanding (SACU), UK
• The British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS), UK
• Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Sponsors

• Global Century Press, UK
• Agile Think Tank, China
• Cypress Books, UK
• UVIC Group
• Wuxi Institute of New Culture (WINC), China
• M.Y.Union Software Company, China UVIC Group, UK
• Xueshuwan (Academic Harbour), China
• Peacock London Group

Contacts: 

• Kai Laing (07767 711908 Event Officer, Global China Academy)
• Dr Tracy Digby/Liu (07759682226 Co-ordinator, 10^th Global China Dialogue)
• Email: dialogue@gca-uk.org 
• Website: https://globalchinaacademy.org/global-china-dialogue-10/ 

More info: 

• Registration
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• GCD10 Call for Participants 
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• Abstract Submission
• GCD10 Call for Papers
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• GCD10 Home (Chinese)
• GCD10 Partnership Guidelines
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• Global China Dialogue Series site (English only)