Swinburne expands research links with China

Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne has signed new research partnership agreements with five of China’s leading universities.

Jeffrey Smart, vice-president at Swinburne, said  the agreements will expand research cooperation by allowing staff and students to work across universities in China, Malaysia and Australia.

The agreements have been signed with the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University and Tongji University. They were finalised during a trip to China in late May by a delegation that included Smart; Leon Sterling, Swinburne’s dean of information and communication technologies; and Brian Zhang, the university’s China engagement executive.