从人文与社会科学角度服务世界，UIC师生在努力

9月24日，北师港浸大（UIC）人文与社会科学学部（DHSS）举行了人文与社会科学研究与服务中心揭牌仪式，并正式发布了由学部多位老师编辑、全球知名科技图书出版公司施普林格·自然（Springer Nature）出版的新书《新冠疫情大流行下的世界变局及危机应对：人文与社会科学视角》（COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World: Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences）。此外，澳门大学社会科学学院院长胡伟星教授受邀作主题演讲。

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在活动上，UIC校长、中国科学院院士汤涛教授，协理副校长（国际发展）、DHSS院长贝力行教授，以及副院长赵晓斌教授共同为人文与社会科学研究与服务中心（CRSHSS）揭牌。

人文与社会科学研究与服务中心揭牌

汤涛校长在致辞中表示，人文与社会科学研究与服务中心的成立和学部的社科著作的发布对于DHSS来说都具有里程牌意义，期待未来DHSS在研究和服务领域取得更加丰硕的成果。

人文与社会科学研究与服务中心在原有的社会管理研究与服务中心的基础上进行整合。原社会管理研究与服务中心助力培养本土社会工作人才、建构本土社会工作理论和实践模式，有效促进了珠海市乃至珠三角地区社会工作本土化、专业化、规范化的发展。

贝力行教授表示，新的人文与社会科学研究与服务中心将继续发挥积极作用，并将拓展研究和服务领域，发展成为创新的、跨学科的研究和服务平台，更好地支持DHSS的研究项目和社会服务项目。

在本次活动上还重磅推出了由副院长赵晓斌教授、社会工作与社会行政专业黄匡忠教授、副院长Charles Lowe博士、全球化与发展专业课程主任Edoardo Monaco博士和英语语言文学专业课程主任John Corbett教授共同编辑的英文著作《新冠疫情大流行下的世界变局及危机应对：人文与社会科学视角》（COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World: Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences）。（点击文末“阅读原文”可了解该著作）

该书由施普林格·自然于2021年8月出版，从“全球经济、政治和公共卫生应对”“国家报告和比较研究”“商业、文化和社会的新秩序及影响”三个部分探讨新冠病毒大流行在全球人文和社会科学领域产生的巨大影响，并指出如何进行跨地区的合作和共同评估全球动态。

校长汤涛教授和常务副校长陈致教授为该书作序。汤涛校长表示，本书由UIC的教授们编辑，收录国内外优秀学者对这段特殊历史时期的最新研究，探讨疫情对世界多方面的影响，具有较大的参考价值。

陈致教授写道，希望这本书能为后世提供借鉴，吸取人类处理公共卫生事件的经验，以更好地应对未来的危机。

赵晓斌教授和Charles Lowe博士介绍了成书过程并向作者致谢。本书有超过30位作者，其中22位来自DHSS，包括2位DHSS学生。

赵晓斌教授

Charles Lowe博士

在本次活动上，澳门大学社会科学学院院长胡伟星教授祝贺UIC人文与社会科学研究与服务中心的成立和新书的出版，并受邀作主题演讲。他以“疫情、大国竞争和不断变化的国际秩序”为题，谈到疫情和中美竞争导致的新国际秩序，启发师生对国际关系变化的进一步思考。

黄匡忠教授分享了新书编辑的过程

2021届UIC毕业生巩择楷（左）和张震在线分享了参与论文写作的经历

On pandemic, research and services in Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSS launches new centre and book

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The Inauguration of Centre for Research and Services in Humanities and Social Sciences (CRSHSS) and Book Launching Ceremony, organised by UIC’s Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS), was held on 24 September.

DHSS’s previous Centre for Social Management Research and Service had been highly successful in attracting local and provincial funding for social management service projects. Therefore, it is proposed to re-name the Centre as the Centre for Research and Services in Humanities and Social Sciences to reflect current government emphasis better.

President of UIC Prof Tang Tao explained that this occasion calls for two celebrations, one for each milestone. The first milestone is the unveiling of the new Centre, and the second is for the launching of the new book.

Associate Vice President (Internationalization) and Dean of DHSS, Prof Adrian Bailey, presented the advantages of the new Centre, including delivering meaningful research and service projects drawn upon DHSS's expertise.

President Tang and Associate Dean for Research and Development of DHSS, Prof Simon Zhao Xiaobin, joined Prof Bailey on stage to unveil the Centre's plaque to signify that it is now open.

After the centre plague unveiling, Prof Zhao took to the stage to talk about the new book, COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World: Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences.

The book was edited by Prof Simon Zhao Xiaobin, Prof Johnston HC Wong (professor of DHSS), Dr Charles Lowe (Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience), Dr Edoardo Monaco (Programme Director of GAD) and Prof John Corbett (Programme Director of ELLS), published by Springer Nature on multiple platforms on 28 August 2021.

The book assesses the intense impact that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been exerting throughout the globe in various domains across humanities and social sciences. The authors of the chapters in the book are faculty members of the DHSS at UIC. In addition, outstanding alumni, as well as world-renowned scholars, are also among the contributors.

The book has been divided into three sections: the first section focuses on "Global Economics, Politics and Public Health Responses", thus delving into the politico-economic governance side of the pandemic, mainly from a transnational perspective. The second section presents "Country Reports and Comparative Studies" of relevant national contexts in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Finally, the third section explores various realms across social disciplines as it examines "New Order and Impacts in Business, Culture and Society".

President Prof Tang Tao and Provost Prof Chen Zhi deliver their messages in the foreword and preface of the book.

"It is a series of varied snapshots of how the pandemic gripped different parts of the world, affecting different areas of the economy, society, the media and education, and impacting on different groups of people,” writes President Tang. “It is also a record of how a community of scholars perceived the unfolding of this outbreak narrative, interpreted the developing plot and assessed the possible consequences, even as the pandemic raged."

Prof Chen writes, “It is to be hoped that the present volume will give future commentators some sense of how this generation has dealt with its own health emergency, and that future crises may be better managed as a result.”

Prof Simon Zhao and Dr Charles Lowe, expressed how the book was achieved even though all staff were scattered across the world during the original COVID outbreak. Over 30 authors contributed to the book, with 22 coming from DHSS.

"The responses to the crisis has therefore essentially consisted of a variety of national public governance initiatives which deserve to be assessed, given the diversity of both the factors that inspired them and of the results they produced. This volume intends precisely to constitute an initial survey of this diverse range of approaches, measures, impacts, achievements and shortcomings across social sciences," Dr Edoardo Monaco explained in the book's introduction.

Pre-recorded videos from two UIC alumni students, Zhang Zhen and Gong Zekai were played at the event. These two former UIC students helped co-author the book. They talked about the challenges and jumping out of their comfort zone to work on this book.

After the launching ceremonies, Prof Richard Hu Weixing gave a keynote speech. He is a Distinguished Professor of Politics and Public Policy as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau. His topic at the event was titled, The Pandemic, Great Power Rivalry and Changing International Order.

Prof Hu congratulated the unveiling of the new Centre and the launching of the new book before saying how he likes to get students involved in research projects. He then spoke about how the pandemic is changing the world and when rising powers meet the ruling powers on a global scale.

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文字|赵姝婵Samuel Burgess

图片 |谢丰 赵姝婵

编辑 |陈晓虹 何锭高昕瑜

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