April 2025
Prof. Naomi Chi (Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University) returned to UCD after ten years, on this occasion, as a scholar on the Erasmus + International Credit Mobility scheme.
Prof. Chi participated in our elective Discovery Module entitled Gateways to Japan (coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Kodate (UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice), and have a special lecture for the Gender, Inequality and Public Policy module, coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dorota Szelewa (Gender Studies / UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice).
The UCD Centre for Japanese Studies, formally affiliated with UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice/ UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy / successfully obtained this competitive Erasmus+ICM funding, for the second time in 2022, jointly with the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine under the research theme of 'One Health’ UCD One Health Society. The bid was led again by Prof. Stephen Gordon (Deputy Director, UCD Centre for Japanese Studies) & Assoc. Prof. Kodate (Director).