近日，我院正式组建中外跨学科研究团队，重点聚焦中华优秀传统文化传承发展与文明互鉴、国际传播等方面开展专项研究。团队汇聚加拿大、也门、英国、西班牙、葡萄牙、巴基斯坦等多国学者，共有中外成员十余位，构建起多元文化融合的协同研究格局。
学院英方执行院长Alvaro Collar教授和党总支书记刘亚玲博士牵头统筹团队建设与研究工作，立足多元文化交流视野，深耕传统文化创新性转化与国际化表达。作为一支跨学科研究团队，当前研究重心着眼于天府文化，紧扣时代传播需求，以天府文化为核心研究落脚点，重点探索地域特色文化挖掘、价值提炼、对外传播路径创新等关键课题；同步联动休闲体育专业资源，探索文化遗产与体育文旅、研学活动的融合路径，精准对接地方文化发展与文旅传播实际需求。
团队将依托数据科学、数字媒体、国际基础课程及休闲体育等跨学科优势，围绕遗址数字化保护、数字叙事创新、双语无障碍传播、公众教育推广与文化体验活动设计等方向开展系统研究，构建“技术赋能+创意表达+国际传播+体育文旅”的协同研究模式，打造在中外合作办学背景下，面向天府文化的跨学科研究标杆。
作为文明互鉴与国际传播工作的重要力量，研究团队将持续立足校地融合发展，依托中外合作办学优势，搭建文化交流桥梁，讲好天府故事、传播巴蜀文脉，助力中华优秀传统文化与地方特色文化走向更广阔的国际视野。
Uniting Civilisations, Cultivating Tianfu Culture
— Stirling College Establishes a Multinational Interdisciplinary Research Team
Stirling College has formally established a Chinese-international interdisciplinary research team, with a primary focus on the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture, civilisational exchange, and international communication. The team brings together scholars from Canada, Yemen, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Pakistan, and beyond — more than ten members in total — forming a collaborative research structure grounded in multicultural integration.
Professor Álvaro Collar, Executive Dean (UK), and Dr. Liu Yaling, Secretary of the CPC General Branch of Stirling College, are leading and coordinating team building and research work. Rooted in a perspective of multicultural exchange, the team's work centres on the innovative transformation and international expression of traditional culture.
As an interdisciplinary team, the current research focus is Tianfu Culture — the distinctive cultural heritage of the Chengdu Plain. Key topics include excavating and articulating the value of regionally distinctive culture, and exploring new pathways for international dissemination. The team also connects with the college's Leisure Sports programme to explore how cultural heritage can be integrated with sports, cultural tourism, and study-travel activities, responding to real local needs in cultural development and communication.
Building on the college's interdisciplinary strengths in Data Science, Digital Media, the International Foundation Programme, and Leisure Sports, the team will conduct systematic research in areas including digital preservation of heritage sites, digital storytelling, bilingual accessible communication, public education, and cultural experience design. The aim is to develop a collaborative model of "technology + creative expression + international communication + sports and cultural tourism" — establishing a benchmark for interdisciplinary research on Tianfu Culture within the context of Sino-foreign cooperative education.
As a key force in civilisational exchange and international communication, the research team will continue to work at the intersection of university and local community, leveraging the advantages of Sino-foreign cooperative education to build cultural bridges, tell the story of Tianfu, and carry the Bashu cultural heritage to a broader international audience.
