The outbreak of COVID-19 has been drawing significant attention from everyone globally and everyone is eager to help those in need. Nottingham University Business School China (NUBS China) is no exception.
A member of the professional services staff at NUBS China donated a total of 10,000 pairs of gloves, 240 sets of protective clothing, 200 pairs of goggles, 400 kg of sanitisers and 5,000 masks to three hospitals in Hubei Province anonymously. In addition, Professor Fu Pingping, who is Professor of Organisational Behavior and PhD candidate Stella Fangli Zeng, also donated masks and hand sanitizers to the Business School colleagues which they bought from overseas.
The Student Affairs Team at NUBS China began working on the Lunar New Year’s Day. They have paid great attention on a daily basis to the coronavirus epidemic data, and have established communication channels with each student to gather statistical data and information for the safety of all students and staff. A significant amount of efforts have been made to answer all students' inquiries, both at home and abroad.
Online teaching began this week at the start of the new semester. Although students and teachers may be far away from each other, the internet has connected everyone together through teaching and learning online no matter where they are. In order to achieve high-quality teaching, academic staff are continuing to adjust and improve the delivery of each module, having started online teaching training just half a month ago. They have been spending large amounts of time recording their lectures, sometimes staying up until the early morning so that they can present their best materials to students.
Professors from NUBS China are also actively advising several industries on strategies to help reduce the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak. The report entitled The real lessons that Chinese SMEs can learn from the novel coronavirus and The challenges faced by the tourism industry under the “housing economy”, written by Dr Lei Li, Associate Professor in International Business, and Dr Yi Wang, Assistant Professor in Travel and Tourism, respectively, have both been published in the China Daily. Michele Geraci, Professor of Practice in Finance at NUBS China, Former Undersecretary of State for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, was invited onto CGTN to share his views on the impact of the novel coronavirus on the global economy, “I think this will be a lesson for the world as to how hard coordinating the links between the economies of the West and East will be. The value chain is so complex and integrated that they will not easily disentangle”, he said.
In the meantime, NUBS China received short videos from staff and students around the world and managed to produce a video to show its full support of those fighting in Wuhan.
Stay Strong Wuhan! Together, We Will Win!