Recently, the International Journal of Psychology, a Journal of the International Union of Psychological Science, launched a special issue with the topic of “Psychological Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic around the World.” The project“Coping With the Psychological Impacts of COVID-19, in which Professor Pan Fada’s team from the School of Educational Sciences participated, has been successfully selected.

Focusing on the psychological implications of COVID-19, this project was carried out by Professor Craig Smith's team at Vanderbilt University, USA, in collaboration with 12 other teams from Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal and Turkey. Professor Pan's team as the collaborator in China has been involved in the whole process from design, implementation to output. Paper of the project entitled“Appraisal and coping predict health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international approach”was published online on 30 June 2021 and appeared in the journal on 13^th January this year.