不论你从事任何学科的学习与研究，如果你是一个有心人，在萨里大学从事学习与研究的一个巨大优势就是，这里有很多具有包容性的学术与行业交流环境与信息共享平台可以供我们利用，在课余增强自己的国际视野、研究水平与学术或行业见闻，对于自己的学习研究甚至以后的就业有着巨大的的帮助。另外，萨里大学先进的教学与科研服务基础设施能够让我们在这里轻松愉快的从事于自己热爱的研究领域，同时在这里你的同学、同事可能来自非常多元的文化背景，在相处的过程中，不同文化的交流、借鉴与融合也是一种美妙的体验。
No matter you are engaged in any discipline of study and research, if you are a very sharp-minded person, one of the great advantages of studying in the University of Surrey is that there are many inclusive academic and industry exchange environments and information sharing platforms for us to use, to strengthen our international vision, research level and academic or industry knowledge are of great help to our own study and research and even future employment. The advanced teaching and scientific research service infrastructure of the University of Surrey allows us to engage in our loving research fields easily and happily. At the same time, your peers and colleagues here may come from very diverse cultural backgrounds, and they are different in the process of getting along. Cultural exchange, mutual-learning and integration is also a wonderful experience you can get in Surrey.
首先，在萨里大学学校内、校内院际间、校际间、学术领域内、学术与产业领域内都有一系列频繁的会议、研讨会甚至是很多非正式的“头脑风暴”，在这里你可以自主的选择感兴趣的领域，学习业内领先的知识、技术、商业模式与领先的场景应用，与他人交换意见与观点，发现潜在的合作伙伴共同进行学术探索与技术开发。我的感受是，尤其是在技术应用日新月异的现代社会，原先分隔的很多领域不断深度融合与交互，这就对与我们的知识与认知结构提出了新的挑战。比如说，我本人从事的是旅游规划与可持续开发，这本身就是一个发散性复合性很强的学科，伴随着新技术的发展与应用，比如人工智能、大数据、云计算、区块链等，就需要我们研究者拥有更发散的思维与宽广的知识体系去研究这些新技术的应用以及对人类社会与生活的影响。
First of all, there are a series of frequent conferences, seminars and even many informal “brainstorms” within the university and internal different faculties, or between universities, across academic and industrial fields, where you can choose your fields of interest independently. From this big platform you can learn the industry’s leading knowledge, technology, business model and leading scenario applications, exchange agendas and ideas with others, and discover potential partners for academic exploration and technology development together. My feeling is that, especially in the modern society with ever-changing technology applications, many previously separated fields continue to be deeply integrated and interacted. This poses new challenges to our knowledge and cognitive structure. For example, I’m now engaging in tourism planning and sustainable development, which itself is a highly divergent and complex subject, accompanied by the development and application of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and block Chains, etc., require our researchers to have more divergent thinking and a broader knowledge system to study the application of these new technologies and their impacts on human society and life.
除了学校部门外，校学生会也对于营造校园学术环境发挥了非常积极的建设性作用。比如从2019年年底开始，以后每年12月份的其中一周会被设定为在校PGR研究员日，所有的在校PGR学生都会收到邮件邀请来学生会交流活动中心参加这周每日举办的早餐会，在享用免费早餐的同时，可以与来自不同专业领域内的其他PGR学生交流探讨。
In addition to the school department, the school student union has also played a very active and constructive role in creating a campus academic environment. For example, starting from the end of 2019, one week of December will be set as the PGR Researcher Day of the school every year. All PGR students in the school will receive an email invitation to the Student Union Exchange Activity Center to participate in the daily breakfast meeting held this week. , While enjoying the free breakfast, you can communicate and discuss with other PGR students from different professional fields.
另外，很重要的是，萨里大学每个下属院系都会有自己的Research Festival，在这一天，会有很多专业内资深教授被邀请作为Key-note Speaker就一些当前热门领域和研究话题发表演讲。同时，有很多相关专题的Panel Discussion会汇聚校内外一起参与研究的学者共同讨论、发表观点，台下的观众也可以与嘉宾互动讨论。在会场周边会设置很多区域来作为poster demonstration，在这里每个在校学者都有机会用一张浓缩的海报来展示自己近期的一些新颖的研究提议或成果。我们社会科学与艺术学院Faculty of Art and Social Science (简称FASS）会在每年的二月份举办我们自己的Research Festival。在这次活动中我的导师也发表了关于欧盟国家可持续发展议题ETIS指标报告。
In addition to this, it is very important that each department or faculty of the University of Surrey will have its own Research Festival. On this day, many experienced professors in the field will be invited as Key-note Speakers to give speeches on some current hot-spot fields and research topics. At the same time, there are many panel discussions on related topics that will bring scholars together from inside and outside the school to discuss and express their opinions. The audience in the audience can also interact and discuss with the guests. On the day, many surrounding areas will be set up as the venue to serve as a poster demonstration, where every scholar in school has the opportunity to use a very condensed and concise poster to show some of their recent novel research proposals or achievements. Our Faculty of Art and Social Science (FASS) normally holds our own Research Festival every February. In this event, my supervisor also gave a speech about the ETIS indicators report refers to sustainability practices in EU countries.
同样在这一天，学校的学生会会配合学院部门开辟另外的会场，在晚上举办各学科post demonstration中优胜的海报的集中展示。很荣幸，2019年底的活动中我们专业的Christy凭借着对于英国西南地区旅游综合开发的研究议题拿下了最佳poster展示，代表我们专业来参展。会场对所有在校PGR学生开放，有很多餐食饮品免费提供，会场还会邀请校外业界人士为大家带来主题演讲。在这里，又是另外一个重要场合让来自跨学科的研究者互相沟通，了解各个领域目前的一些发展动向与趋势。
Also on this day, the student union of the school will cooperate with the college department to open another venue to hold a concentrated display of the posters of each subject’s post demonstration in the evening. The venue is open to all PGR students in the school. Foods and drinks are provided for free. People from outside the school will also be invited to bring keynote speeches. Here is another important occasion for researchers from across disciplines to communicate with each other and understand some current development trends from various fields.
在学院或专业内，也会有大量的学术研讨会。在我们旅游与酒店管理学院，每周都会有一个聚焦于各专题的guest talk，演讲嘉宾都会是来自各个和我们有合作联系的院校。在疫情期间，我们的很多活动都被安排在了线上进行，虽然不能够面对面进行交流，但一个重要好处就是，这些视频会议的内容都会被录制然后放在Youtube视频平台上，便于保存和和回看。另外，萨里大学很支持每一个学者利用自己相关的研究课题申请经费，利用自己的学术关系网来组织学术活动，比如我的同事Gloria就利用这个机会在今年三月份申请到了学校经费，从荷兰Breda大学请来了两位学者为我们做imagination方面的培训，开拓了视野。
There are also a number of academic seminars in the college or major. In our School of Tourism and Hotel Management, there will be a guest talk every week focusing on various topics, and the speakers will come from various universities in different research fields or background that have cooperated with us. During the epidemic, many of our activities were arranged online. Although face-to-face communication is not quite possible, but there’s an important advantage is that all of the contents of these seminar videos or live broadcast will be recorded and placed on the Youtube channel, which is very easily for us to save and review. In addition, the University of Surrey strongly supports every scholar to apply for funding with their own related research topics and use their own academic network to organize academic activities. For example, my colleague Gloria used this opportunity to successfully applied a funding in March this year, invited two scholars from the Netherlands Breda University to do research imagination training for us, which of course largely broadened our knowledge horizons.
