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Dr Andrew CHUBB

LUCC Director

Contact details: a.chubb@lancaster.ac.uk

Andrew studies Chinese politics and international relations, with a focus on crisis management, public opinion, and maritime disputes. As LUCC Director, Andrew contributes overall strategic direction, resource planning, and relations with other institutions within the university and externally.

Dr Yunyan LI

Research Lead

Contact details: y.li157@lancaster.ac.uk

Yunyan Li is a social policy and mixed-methods researcher with research interests in social and public policy, gender and family, and East Asian welfare. A Senior Research Associate in the Lancaster University Management School, Yunyan's recent research project investigates the recalibration of the institutional arrangements in socio-economic reform and the welfare system in rural and urban China and its impacts on women under the interaction between modernisation and transforming Confucianism.

Dr Derek HIRD

Education and Research Lead

Contact details: d.hird@lancaster.ac.uk

Derek Hird's research principally concerns gender and class in contemporary China, with a particular focus on middle-class masculinities. As a member of the LUCC Directorate, Dr. Hird's work facilitates LU undergraduate and postgraduate students' engagement with LUCC activities, including through Translation Internships and the Doctoral Fellows program.

Dr Lingxuan LIU

Academic Liaison Lead

Contact details: lingxuan.liu@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Liu is an expert on China’s environmental management and policies based on a multi-level governance system, and looks into challenges and opportunities of sustainable supply chain management. As Academic Liaison Lead, Dr Liu facilitates visiting scholars from China to connect with relevant LU academics, and facilitates funding opportunities for China-related research.

Dr Rebecca LIU

Engagement Lead

Contact details: rebecca.liu@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Rebecca Liu's research interests are interdisciplinary, focusing on innovation, cross-cultural study, cooperation and networking, knowledge management and learning, and SME engagement in China. As Engagement Lead, Dr Liu brings LUCC's activities and the work of its affiliated scholars to the attention of internal and external stakeholders and the public.

Prof David TYFIELD

Interdisciplinarity Lead

Contact details: d.tyfield@lancaster.ac.uk

David Tyfield's research focuses on the complex systems of processes of knowledge production and their interaction with issues of global cultural political economy, especially regarding critical analysis of the emergence of a globalised "knowledge-based" economy, climate change and the rise of China. As part of the LUCC Directorate, Prof. Tyfield draws together China-engaged LU researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds to facilitate the Centre's cross-disciplinary initiatives.

Dr Robert APSIMON

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 595176, r.apsimon@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Apsimon is an expert in particle beam dynamics and accelerating devices, with applications in healthcare and environmental sustainability, including in China. He is a member of the Lancaster University flying faculty, teaching at the joint campus with Beijing Jiaotong University in Weihai, China.

Dr Charlotte BAKER

Contact details: c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Baker is interested in the cultural impact of China-Africa relations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Jocelyn CUNNINGHAM

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 593431, jocelyn.cunningham@lancaster.ac.uk

Jocelyn Cunningham is a national cultural leader in innovative artistic practice and partnerships between academic disciplines and the arts. Lancaster Arts is an arts centre based at Lancaster University with a renowned reputation for cutting edge artistic excellence.

Dr Siao Yuong FONG (Rong)

Contact details: s.fong6@lancaster.ac.uk

Rong is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, working at the intersections of Media and Cultural Studies, Production Studies and Asian Studies, with particular focus on authoritarian media and the Sinosphere.

Dr Anthony HESKETH

Contact details: a.hesketh@lancaster.ac.uk

Ant Hesketh's research explores how we understand value beyond the quantum form. Based in the LU Management School's Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, he is interested in how Chinese artistic and philosophical thinking might facilitate a deeper understanding of value-capturing processes in organizations, and how this might be extended to greater inclusivity in understanding the value of firms.

Prof Yang HU

Contact details: yang.hu@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof Hu is an expert on how China’s social, cultural, political and institutional changes shape population change and mobility, gender and family relations , and social (in)equalities. His research draws on the analysis of large-scale quantitative data as well as in-depth qualitative evidence.

Prof Kevin JONES

Contact details: k.c.jones@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof Jones is an expert on China’s environmental quality, with interests in water, air and soil pollution, China’s role as a manufacturer and user of chemicals, environmental regulation and the links between environment and health.

Prof Hiroko KAWANAMI

Contact details: h.kawanami@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof Kawanami is an expert on Myanmar’s relations with the world, Chinese-Myanmar borderland, Buddhist monastic communities and international network of Buddhist nuns, cultural exchange and civil society.

Dr Eva LI

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 592205, eva.li@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Eva Li (李卓賢博士) specialises in Chinese-language media and cultural politics. Her research interests include audience participation, fandom, and gender and sexual politics in East Asian Sinophone societies.

Dr Ou LIN

Contact details: o.lin@lancaster.ac.uk

Ou joined the Lancaster Law School as a Lecturer in Employment Law in September 2023. She is particularly interested in the regulation of platform work and other precarious employment relations. In addition to doctrinal analysis of the law, she embraces socio-legal methods to observe the interactions between law and the real world. Ou's doctoral thesis examines 'Workers' Spontaneous Struggles and Resistance in the Chinese On-Demand Economy'.

Dr Christopher LONGMAN

Contact Details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 510622, c.longman@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Longman is interested in exploring issues relating to transnational partnerships in higher education,and differences in cultures of learning and teaching. He also has an academicbackground in the field of language politics and Identity construction.

Prof Judith MOTTRAM

Contact details: judith.mottram@lancaster.ac.uk

Professor Mottram is an expert on colour use and understanding in global marketplaces.

Dr. Kunal MUKHERJEE

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 594419, k.mukherjee1@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. Kunal Mukherjee has an interest in ethnic minorities and religious identity in contemporary China especially in Xinjiang and Tibet. He is also interested in China’s relations with South Asia especially India,and how China’s relationship with India has evolved since the 1962 war.

Dr Serena POLLASTRI

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 510518, s.pollastri@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Serena Pollastri is a designer and a lecturer who uses practice as an essential part of research and teaching.

Dr Peter SEWELL

Contact details: p.j.sewell@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Sewell is a Careers Coach (Consultancy) in the Lancaster University Management School An expert on graduate Employability and Entrepreneurship education known for the‘CareerEDGE model of Graduate Employability, Peter has worked with individuals,organizations and businesses across China and elsewhere in the world.

Dr Andy SWEETMAN

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 594715, a.sweetman@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Sweetman is an expert in assessing the sources, fate and behaviour of persistent chemicals in the environment and quantifying their risks to humans and wildlife in China and elsewhere.

Dr Vittorio TANTUCCI

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 595112, v.tantucci@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Tantucci is an expert of Chinese language and linguistics. His research addresses both diachronic phenomena of language change and applied issues of intercultural communication, addressed through mix methods of corpus-based and machine-learning analysis.

Dr Yingnian TAO

Contact details: y.tao4@lancaster.ac.uk

A Senior Research Associated with the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion (PPR), Yingnian is interested in corpus-based social media discourse analysis. Her work has explored interruptions (overlapping speech) in everyday and institutional settings in Chinese, and apologies on social media in China. She is currently working on the University’s race equality surveys, using a mixed-method approach.

Dr Emre TARIM

Contact details: e.tarim@lancaster.ac.uk

Emre Tarim is a lecturer in behavioural sciences interested in the Chinese financial system and investor behaviours, and China's political economy of energy transitions.

Prof Oliver WILD

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 594871, o.wild@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof Wild is an atmospheric scientist with expertise in atmospheric composition, urban air quality and climate change, and has a particular interest in China’s impacts on local, regional and global air quality.

Prof Robert YOUNG

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 592222, r.j.young@lancaster.ac.uk

Prof Young’s group is developing technologies for secure communications and anti-counterfeiting.

Prof Jinghan ZENG

Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)1524 593185, j.zeng3@lancaster.ac.uk

His research lies in the field of China's domestic and international politics. He is particularly interested in the domestic politics of China’s rise.

Dr Jocelin Lingxia ZHOU

Contact details: l.zhou11@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Zhou is Confucius Institute Teaching Lead and Lecturer in Chinese at the Department of Languages and Cultures (DeLC) at Lancaster University. Jocelin’s research investigates language policy and campaigns in China from the prospective of sociolinguistics and political science.

Zhuo CHEN

Contact details: zhuo.6.chen@kcl.ac.uk

Zhuo Chen is a PhD candidate in the Lau China Institute at King's College London. Zhuo works on social media and contemporary Chinese politics, and its relations to Foucault's concept of governmentality.

Prof Astrid NORDIN

LUCC Founding Director

Contact: astrid.nordin@kcl.ac.uk

Professor Nordin is Lau Chair of Chinese International Relations at Kings College London. Professor Nordin is an expert on how China’s relations with the world are negotiated through Chinese foreign and domestic policy, academia, propaganda, online dissidence, and artistic expression. As Founding Director, Professor Nordin continues to support LUCC’s overall operations, strategy, and leadership.

Prof Fanwei KONG

Contact details: kongfanwei@tjfsu.edu.cn

Prof Fanwei Kong is a Professor in the School of International Relations at Tianjin Foreign Studies University. He was a Visiting Scholar in 2019-2020, working on China-EU investment issues.

Dr Yan LIU

Contact details: liuyan80@ynu.edu.cn

Dr Yan LIU of the Institute of Development Studies, Yunnan University, studies how regional differences affect China's urbanization processes. As a LUCC Visiting Scholar in 2019-2020, Dr Liu examined the case of Yunnan Province, an underdeveloped province in western China with plateau geographical features, and specifically how its economic development level and geographical features affect the spatial relationship between urban and rural areas as well as the rural-urban factor flows.

Dr Aiqing WANG

Contact: aiqing.wang@liverpool.ac.uk

Dr Wang's research investigates Chinese cultural studies, pragmatics, historical linguistics and translation studies, with particular expertise on Classical Chinese syntax.

Nick WONG

Contact details: lcnickwong@ust.hk

Dr. Nick Wong is an applied linguist and Lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His work has examined the non-standard writing practices used by Hongkongers within the theoretical framework of translanguaging, and he is also the founder of “Kongish Daily” and the notion of “Kongish”.

Dr Zoe ZHU

Contact details: yi.zhu@sheffield.ac.uk

Zoe Zhu is a business ethnographer interested in the institutionalization and internalization of culture in the organization, particularly how employees interpret organizational culture and related interactions between management and employees. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of East Asian Studies at Sheffield University.

Xue BAI

Contact details: x.bai6@lancaster.ac.uk

Xue Bai is a PhD student in Politics, Philosophy and Religion. She is interested in exploring the political consumption in China and motivations behind Chinese citizens’ political consumption behaviours.

Francesca CECCATO

Contact: f.ceccato@lancaster.ac.uk

Francesca Ceccato is a doctoral researcher in Languages and Cultures. Her field of study belongs to gender, sexuality and women’s studies in contemporary China. Specifically, the focus of her research is on Chinese leftover women.

Qin FAN

Contact details: q.fan1@lancaster.ac.uk

Qin is a doctoral researcher in Linguistics and English Language. Her research project explores business discourse targeted at the high-end market in China, adopting Bourdieu’s conceptualization of taste and distinction. Her interests are in how added value in/around brands/products is constructed discursively, and how Chinese middle- and upper-class people are represented in business discourse.

Mingya (Mia) JIANG

Contact details: m.jiang9@lancaster.ac.uk

Mingya (Mia) Jiang is based in the Department of Languages and Cultures (DeLC), conducting research on the application of philosophical hermeneutics in translation studies and the interpretation of the Tao Te Ching.

Yuhong LEI

Contact details: y.lei4@lancaster.ac.uk

Yuhong Lei is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. Her interests are in technology-enhanced learning, academic procrastination, and Chinese students’ learning experience. Currently, her research focuses on the reasons behind academic procrastination among Chinese university students.

Yannan LI

Contact details: y.li108@lancaster.ac.uk

Yannan Li is a PhD student in the Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department. Yannan is interested in exploring issues relating to nationalism in contemporary China, especially the impact of China’s state nationalism on its internal affairs and policies.

Rui QIAN

Contact details: r.qian1@lancaster.ac.uk

Rui Qian is a PhD student in Film at Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art. Rui is interested in Chinese cinema studies, especially the images of Chinese migrant workers in films, and the representation of China’s modernization process on film screen.

Zi QUAN

Contact details: z.quan@lancaster.ac.uk

Artist and LICA PhD researcher Zi Quan's work is trying to find the image mode related to time, space and the universe in early Chinese history, and apply them to contemporary ink painting creations. Her personal website can be found at: https://www.artstation.com/ziquan1

Panagiota (Penny) TZANNI

Contact details: p.tzanni@lancaster.ac.uk

Panagiota (Penny) Tzanni is a PhD student in Technology-Enhanced Learning and Eresearch. She interested in exploring how hybrid professional development can empower Chinese educators and help them integrate more technology in their teaching practice.

Tingjun WANG

Contact details: t.wang15@lancaster.ac.uk

A PhD researcher in Educational Research, Tingjun Wang is interested in psychological interventions to support school students’ mental health and the integration of interventions into Chinese school contexts. Tingjun's main project investigates the application of mindfulness training to Chinese secondary schools, including the effectiveness of mindfulness training on students’ stress, emotion regulation and academic performance.

Lily WU

Contact details: j.wu31@lancaster.ac.uk

Lily Wu researches feminism in contemporary China, especially digital feminism and popular feminism. She is also interested in youth studies, gender and education.

Hao YANG

Contact details: h.yang23@lancaster.ac.uk

Hao Yang is an art practice-based researcher and PhD student in the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts. Hao's research uses the the Chinese Taoist allegory of ‘the happy excursion’ to compose a set of art practices as a method to explore the 'digital Leviathan' monopolising and manipulating the individual’s way of thinking, sensing and being.

Yitian ZHANG

Contact details: y.zhang130@lancaster.ac.uk

Yitian Zhang, based in the LU Law School, studies international human rights law and legal theory, and is writing a thesis on human rights with Chinese characteristics.

Noah ZHU

Contact details: f.zhu@lancaster.ac.uk

Based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Noah Zhu has research interests in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and social media discourse. Noah's expertise lies in the evaluation of data-driven learning, corpus analysis of social media discourse and Chinese-English translation benchmarking for geoheritage.

Dr Chundi LAN

Contact details: c.lan2@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Chundi Lan is associate professor at Jiangxi Normal University of China with research interests in economic development, fairness and justice, and ideological and political education. She has published two books, Research on the historical track of Marx's justice thought (People Publishing House, 2019) and Research on higher education teaching model in China -- based on MOOC perspective (Economic Management Press, 2021).

Dr Xiaodan QIU

Contact details: x.qiu3@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Xiaodan Qiu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language & Literature at Zhejiang University of Technology, China. As a Visiting Scholar from 2024 to 2025, Xiaodan is examining Confucianism and the transformation of modern Chinese literature, with a focus on consanguinity.

Miaoxin YANG

Contact details: m.yang16@lancaster.ac.uk

Miaoxin Yang is a member of staff at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), where she teaches International Trade and International Finance in the Department of International Business. Yang was selected for participation in the GDUFS Campus Euro-Asia Programme, and is a visiting scholar at LUCC for 2022-23.

Gulnara ZHOLZHANOVA

Contact details: g.zholzhanova@lancaster.ac.uk

Gulnara Zholzhanova is a Visiting Scholar in 2023-24, examining the conceptual foundations Kazakhstan-China relations. A graduate of the MA (Media and Journalism) program in the School of Arts and Culture at Newcastle University, Gulnara is a politics and law journalist with the newspaper Egemen Qazaqstan in Kazakhstan.

Victoria Yue SU

Contact details: v.su@lancaster.ac.uk

Victoria (Yue) Su is a Masters student in the Department of Linguistics and English Language with interests in phonetics and corpus linguistics. As a Project Officer and core member of LUCC's China Research Mapping project, Victoria uses Tableau collects data and develops visualisations on Lancaster's research on, in and with China and the Sinophone world.