Jack Smith

Jack Smith

Communications and Programme Manager, RCUK China

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14th September 2017 Science and Innovation Network

Grace Lang

Director, Research Councils UK China Office

Influence Through Impact: 10 Years of the UK Research Councils in China

Ten years is a fleeting moment in the history of the Research Councils but this Sunday is a special day. 17th September 2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Research Councils’ China Office. Between 2007 and 2017, British researchers were awarded 17 Nobel prizes spanning Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Physiology and Medicine – […]

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13th July 2017

Jack Smith

by Jack Smith

Communications and Programme Manager, RCUK China

Smog Chasing – the UK and China team up on air pollution

On a scrubby patch of land in Beijing’s north-west, over which the capital’s original Mongol citadel’s walls would have once cast an imposing shadow, nine pristine white shipping containers surround a slender meteorological gantry. Erected by the Chinese government in 1979, supposedly after President Richard Nixon noted the Chinese capital’s appalling levels of air pollution, […]

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About Jack Smith

Grace Lang joined RCUK China in August 2008 as Deputy Director and became Director of the office in August 2014. She previously headed up the Science and Innovation (SIN) section…

Grace Lang joined RCUK China in August 2008 as Deputy Director and became Director of the office in August 2014. She previously headed up the Science and Innovation (SIN) section in the British Consulate-General in Chongqing to drive UK-China research collaborations in southwest China via partnership mapping and project initiation. She was the SIN national lead on identifying locations of research strength in engineering and materials science in China. Grace also worked as an English lecturer in Sichuan International Studies University before joining the Consulate.

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