Internationalisation

Session 5

26 May, 10.00 – 11.00 (BST)

Embedding collaborative online international learning (COIL) into the curriculum/educational changes in future Learning & Teaching 

Chaired by: Professor Clare McManus (Dean for Global Engagement for South-east Asia and Australasia, University of Glasgow)

Guest speakers: 

• Professor Simon Anderson (Director of the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies)  
• Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith (Vice-Principal Learning & Teaching, University of Glasgow)
• Professor Ian Holliday (Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong
• Professor Yong Zulina Zubairi (Associate Vice-Chancellor Global Engagement, University of Malaya). 

Professor Clare McManus

Professor Clare McManus, Dean for Global Engagement, (South-east Asia and Australasia) University of Glasgow

Clare highlights the strategic partnership between the University of Glasgow and the University of Sydney as an example of successful international collaboration, and she invites Glasgow’s other partners from the region to get in touch to explore further opportunities for collaboration.

Working closely with Glasgow’s External Relations Directorate, Clare leads on international partnership activities for the University of Glasgow with higher education institutions and other stakeholders across South-east Asia (SEA) and Australasia.

We have had considerable success in developing research and teaching partnerships with universities in SEA and Australasia. Historically, most of this engagement has been through face-to-face activities when we have welcomed our partners to Glasgow; or when our researchers, staff and students have travelled to the region to engage in research and teaching and exchange of best practice.

Professor Simon Anderson

Professor Simon Anderson, Director: The George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, The University of the West Indies

Simon is a Professor of Population Health Sciences and Cardiovascular Medicine (at The UWI), Director at the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre and Co-Director at the Glasgow Caribbean Centre for Development Research - a novel partnership in the Caribbean with the University of Glasgow.

A graduate of The UWI, Cambridge, Oxford and Cardiff, Simon had an integrated sub-specialty postgraduate training supported by the NIHR in academic medicine and cardiology.

He leads population health science research at the UWI with a lens that investigates upstream determinants and risk factors for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Professor Moira Fischbach-Smith

Professor Moira Fischbach-Smith, Vice-Principal (Learning & Teaching), University of Glasgow

Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith is responsible for strategy and policy development for learning and teaching, oversees quality enhancement, admissions policy and widening participation, and leads on collaborations with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), Further Education Colleges and Glasgow International College.

She is a member of the Project Board that is developing a new Learning and Teaching Hub on the University's main campus and oversees refurbishment of central teaching spaces on campus.

Professor Ian Holliday

Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President and Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong

Professor Ian Holliday graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge with a BA and MA in Social and Political Studies. He graduated from New College, Oxford with an MPhil and DPhil in Politics. He first taught at the Department of Government, University of Manchester, and was also a Fulbright Scholar at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. At City University of Hong Kong, he served as Head of Public and Social Administration and as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2006 for a five-year term as Dean of Social Sciences. Since January 2015, he has been Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning).

Professor Holliday is passionate about teaching and learning. As Dean of Social Sciences, he spearheaded the introduction of a graduation requirement that undergraduate students complete off-campus credits in the twin areas of social innovation and global citizenship. He also created and for many years directed the Faculty’s MOEI programme to enable undergraduate students to deliver intensive-mode English classes to children and young adults in impoverished and marginalized communities in Southeast Asia. Across seven cycles from 2008 to 2014, more than 300 MOEI students taught English to thousands of young people in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.

Professor Holliday’s research focuses on Myanmar politics and governance. He is the author of Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar (Columbia University Press, 2011), the co-editor with Adam Simpson and Nicholas Farrelly of Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (Routledge, 2018), and the co-author with Roman David of Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Professor Yong Zulina Zubairi

Professor Yong Zulina Zubairi, Associate Vice-Chancellor Global Engagement, University of Malaya

Prof Dr Yong Zulina Zubairi leads on the global strategy for partnerships and collaborations university wide with her current position as the Associate Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). She works collaboratively with international partners and networks on initiatives to promote student mobility, STEM education, talent management, graduate employability and women leadership.

She is passionate in her primary training as a statistician and has published numerous articles in reputable journals in her long-standing research areas in medical and circular statistics as well as supervising a number of postgraduates in the field.

As an alumnus of the Commonwealth Fellowship, she works with ACU and local NGOs in community works.