Building a Seoul connection – Korean student visits forges links with The Dunn School and Oxford
Learning about how university education is delivered at Oxford, improving English language skills and getting a feel for the research environment were the successful outcomes of a visit to Oxford and the Dunn School by students from Ewha Womans University in Korea in August 2017.
As part of the visit, aimed at catalysing a long standing and fruitful collaboration between the two universities, Professor William James delivered a seminar here at the Dunn School on Thursday 10 August.
Ewha alumna, and mastermind behind the initiative, Dr Sung Hee Kim, commented: “Students and the professors in the party said they learned a lot from Professor James especially about interactive and tutorial teaching methods. Ewha Womans University group looks forward to welcoming him in Seoul in the near future and to forging long lasting links between Oxford and Seoul.”
The group stayed at Exeter College and enjoyed a full schedule including:
- A tour of Oxford University and colleges, and Blenheim Palace
- Visit to UCB Pharmaceuticals in Slough, organised with the help of Prof Hagan Bayley
- Lecture by Prof Denis Noble and Prof Yung E Earm from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
- Science and Careers advice lectures at Balliol by Prof Hagan Bayley, Chemistry Department, and Dr Wen Hwa Lee and Dr Nicola Burgess-Brown from SGC, Structural Genomics Consortium
- Science and Brexit lecture by Prof Paul Flather, and tour and lunch at Mansfield College
- Dept of Pharmacology lecture and tour with Prof Paolo Tammaro
- Visits to the British Museum and Wellcome Trust
Dr Sung Hee Kim is the Director of Voices from Oxford, an Oxford University webcast platform that reaches out to people around the world. Professor James has presented a Voices from Oxford webcast on the fight against aids and the Korean students have also enjoyed his t-talks on careers in science, and, on how science impacts our lives. Most recently for Voices from Oxford Professor James has interviewed Prof Youmin Xi, President of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China on the future of education in the UK and China.
