October and December 2022
During two visits to Vietnam in late 2022, Dr Susan Matthews was able to undertake a range of activities including staff training, undergraduate project supervision and curriculum development meetings at each one of our five partner Universities in Vietnam and meet potential new partner universities for an expanded UKA-PEN project
Highlights of these trips were providing workshops for academics on curriculum design for medicinal chemistry in Pharmacy degrees, active learning approaches and authentic assessment design. These were combined with events for postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers and academics from a wide range of disciplines on project research design, grant writing and publication.
These visits also enabled in-person discussion of our undergraduate research projects and intensive supervision days with the students and the in-country supervisory team members. There was also the opportunity to work with Vietnamese undergraduate and postgraduate students, attend a graduation and celebratory conference and discuss new research projects with colleagues.