Haidee Ng
PhD studentProfile
Haidee is a PhD student at Lancaster University, researching social media health discourse using a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach. She is currently an English for Academic Purposes/English for Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP) Lecturer at a university in Hong Kong.
Research Interests
Her research is interdisciplinary, bridging linguistics, business communication, and psychology. She earned an MA in Linguistics (Distinction) from the University of Hong Kong, where her thesis examined the Cantonese morphosyllable bei and the typology of passive constructions across languages using a formal linguistic approach. She subsequently pursued an MSc in Marketing (Distinction) at King’s College London, focusing on the application of language and communication in business contexts. Building on her earlier studies in psychology, Haidee integrates psychological theories into her research, enriching the analysis of language and communication across academic and professional domains.
Career Details
Haidee has been teaching in higher education since 2017, specialising in translation studies, general linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes. She has taught at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and its community college, and currently teaches at Lingnan University (LU). She holds professional certifications from Trinity College London (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and IDP Australia (IELTS teacher training qualification).
Before beginning her teaching career, Haidee worked as a Research Assistant on a legal interpreting project at HKU and a digital education project at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).