Academic Activities丨Teachers from our school participated in the 2023 China Healthy City Science Academic Annual Conference

The first academic annual conference on healthy cities in China, co-sponsored by the Healthy Cities Professional Committee of the Chinese Urban Science Research Association and the Health Geography Professional Committee of the Chinese Geographical Society, is the first academic conference on healthy cities in China. The academic annual conference was successfully held at Tongji University in Shanghai on October 26th and 27th. It aims to exchange research progress and practical exploration of healthy cities, discuss cross-disciplinary innovative research mechanisms and teaching methods, and form an interdisciplinary healthy city research network.

As a teacher from our college, Siqi Chen attended this academic conference with her research “Chinese Teenagers’ Perceptions Towards Home Study Environmental Barriers and Facilitators during the Post-pandemic Period: A Case Study in Shenzhen”. The present study applied mixed method approaches with quantitative and qualitative data in one high school in Shenzhen. The findings indicate the status and potential of home environments for studying; moreover, recommendations from students’ perspective of creating comfortable and practical home study environments for them.

More of her presentation topics are listed below:

• Evaluation of urban green space supply for refugee children under environmental justice framework in Berlin, session 12D: Urban Population, Society and Health Equity

• Promotion of campus healthful food environment intervention design based on the snacking habits behaviour models of college students, Session 7B: Urban health services and healthy food environment.

• An Investigation of Chinese Teenagers' Physical Activity Behaviours and related-built Environments during the Post-pandemic Period, Session 6A: Urban Transportation, active travel, and physical activity promotion

This annual meeting responds to the national development strategy of Healthy China, providing an inter-professional, high-level, international exchange platform for researchers in different professional fields of healthy cities and promoting healthy cities' multi-disciplinary development and talent development. A good foundation has been laid for cultivation on this basis.