A recently published book named Silk Road to Belt Road: Reinventing the Past and Shaping the Future, edited by Associate Professor Dr Nazrul Islam (黄泽), who is of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), was translated and published by the Hunan People's Publishing House.Nazrul Islam (second from left) attends an expert symposium on the launch of the seriesThe book comprises th...

On November 15, 2023, the Department of Social Sciences (DSS) was honored to invite Dr. Di Hu, Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, to deliver a lecture on the topic of GIS（Geographic Information System）and the intersection of social sciences.Dr. Hu is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographic Sciences and deputy director of the Department of Geo...

Abstract:A great tragedy should affect everyone, however, in the case of COVID-19, women are injured more than males just because they are women. Deeply ingrained gender discrepancies that always benefitted women were the outcome of COVID-19. The effects of the coronavirus pandemic on GBV policy are examined in this lecture using both theoretical and empirical methods. The findings of the study...

Abstract:Tourism is a key economic driver of Thailand, contributing to as much as 20 percent of the GDP and employing over six million people before the Covid-19 pandemic. Work in the tourism and hospitality sector is gendered as it often requires workers to embody feminine traits of being caring, servile and attentive. Women are overrepresented in the tourism sector both as entrepreneurs and w...

Abstract:Background: Social media has become an integral part of everyday life; however, prolonged social media use (SMU) can inversely affect mental health. This study aimed to examine the associations of intense and problematic SMU with psychological complaints in adolescent boys and girls who are overweight.  Methods: We analysed data from 32,998 overweight adolescents aged 11-15 years (60.1...

Abstract:Gender is a crucial aspect in revealing how social practice is ordered. The COVID-19 pandemic has become this century’s unprecedented global public health crisis, which has had a huge impact on people's daily lives and challenged many aspects of our predominant perceptions and expectations about our society and family. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 20 Chinese universit...