The First Luncheon of the Business School’s Doctoral Research Ability Enhance Project (Brown Bag) Is Successfully Held

On April 26, 2024, the CUFE Business School held the First Luncheon of the Business School’s Doctoral Research Ability Enhance Project (Brown Bag) successfully at noon at No.615 conference room of the main teaching building. Professor Liu Xiaoyuan, deputy dean of the CUFE Business School, was invited as the guest speaker of this luncheon. He carefully understood the needs and difficulties of the doctoral students in the Business School, and put forward many guiding opinions. A number of doctoral students from the class of 2022 and the class of 2023 participated in this event and exchanged personal views and suggestions about the current doctoral projects and the work of the school in person. Associate professor Dou Chao, director of the Doctoral Program of the Business School, prepared and organized this luncheon to provide a relaxed and pleasant communication environment for teachers and students, in order that the Business School could better understand and serve the scientific research life of the students. The Doctoral Research Ability Improvement Project is a special project carried out by the Business School to improve the scientific research ability of doctoral students. The project is conducted in the form of "lectures + tutoring" and covers all core processes of academic research. The project is conducted once per academic year, and each session includes several lectures, which cover multiple major directions and include topic selection, literature review, research design, methods and technology, paper writing, paper submission and revision and so on.

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At this luncheon (Brown Bag), Professor Liu Xiaoyuan, deputy dean of the Business School, had in-depth face-to-face exchanges with doctoral students, gained a detailed understanding of the challenges encountered by the students in academic research and daily life, and proposed a series of guiding suggestions and solutions in order to better improve the education and management of doctoral students of the Business School and provide effective assistance to the students. The students actively expressed their concerns and confusions, mainly related to doctoral workstations, difficulty of graduation with a Ph.D., arrangement of transactional activities, course load reduction and compression, dissertation guidance, employment choice, and overseas study visits and so on.

Regarding the issue of doctoral workstations, the Business School’s leaders stated that they would continue to strive to provide more comfortable and convenient learning and working conditions for doctoral students. In terms of the graduation difficulty that doctoral students are concerned about, the Business School will utilize more resources to support their academic research and provide substantial assistance for the students to successfully complete their studies. In addition, the students also mentioned the issue of transactional activities and course load. The Business School’s leaders stated that they would further optimize the arrangement of transactional activities, reduce the unnecessary burden on doctoral students, and explore effective burden reduction plans to ensure that the students could better focus on academic research. Thesis counseling is also one of the common concerns of the students. In this regard, the Business School indicated that it would continue to improve the arrangement of the “supervisor group” and provide the students with more personalized and professional scientific research guidance around topic selection, methods and other aspects. Regarding employment choices, the Business School will launch a series of practical career development resources in the form of lectures, experience sharing sessions and 1V1 offline tutoring, etc. to help the students successfully step into career. In addition, regarding the issue of studying abroad, the Business School’s leaders encouraged the students to make more use of international academic conference platforms and opportunities to expand their personal international horizons and make flexible choices based on their own interests and abilities. The Business School will provide necessary support and guidance.

This luncheon (Brown Bag) didn’t not only reflect the Business School’s concern and practical actions towards the students, but also provide the students with opportunities to express their personal needs and difficulties, and promote in-depth exchanges between the Business School’s leaders and the students. Through this activity, the leaders of the Business School deeply recognized the problems and difficulties faced by the students, seriously summarized the needs and suggestions put forward by the students, and expressed that they would continue to improve and optimize the services, constantly improve the Business School's teaching and service quality, and commit themselves to providing the students with a better learning environment and more development opportunities.