Dr. Susan Huang

Business, Humanities and Social Sciences Tutor

英语语言教学中心

• EdD
• MA TESOL
• BA in Psychology
• College degree in industrial management

Shih-Ching (Susan) Picucci-Huang is a Business, Humanities and Social Science (BHSS) tutor at University of Nottingham Ningbo. She received her EdD from University of Durham, UK and MA TESOL from University of Liverpool, UK. She was previously an EAP lecturer at Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University (XJTLU), China, a research assistant in National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan and an English lecturer at Lung Wha University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. 

After her MA TESOL, she taught Business English writing, E-commerce and general English at Lung Wha University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. In 2016, after finishing her EdD, she taught year 2 Business EAP at Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University (XJTLU). She joined CELE UNNC in 2017 and has taught RWAC, AOP, OCS, ESACa, MTS, MTC and CTAC. She also co-convened ESACa IC strand in 2021.  

Her research interests revolve around the issues of identities and cultures, identity communication and language teaching/learning. 

• Miani, M. & Picucci-Huang, S (forthcoming). Collaborative Transnational Education in China: A Scoping Review of Emerging Research Trajectories (2016-2023). Chinese Education and Society. 
• Miani, M., Wang, M. & Picucci-Huang, S. (forthcoming). 4Is and a dandelion: A conceptual framework to address the curriculum development challenges of Sino-British foundation years in China. Chinese Education and Society.  
• Weekly, R. & Picucci-Huang, S. (forthcoming). The intersection of Chineseness and Internationalism among Chinese Millennials at an EMI University. Global Chinese. (accepted under minor revision November 2023).  
• Miani, M., Wang, M. & Picucci-Huang, S. (2022). 4Is: A Conceptual Framework to Drive Curriculum Development in Transnational Foundation Years in Mainland China. Journal of the Foundation Year Network. 5: 111-123.  
• Weekly, R. & Picucci-Huang, S. (2022). Identity, agency, and investment in Chinese students’ English naming practices, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2021.2023554.  
• Picucci, Shih-Ching (2014). Child training and employment in Taiwanese opera 1940s — 1960s: An overview. In V. Emeljanow & G, Arrighi (Eds.), Children and Entertainment: The participation of youth in the entertainment industry (pp. 185-200). NY: Palgrave.  
• Huang, S. (2014). Preparing A level Chinese in England: Textbook analysis of the claimed exam-style practice and Chinese-English translation. In A. Küçükler & H. İçen (Eds.), The Teaching of Asian Languages in the 21st Century (pp.109-121). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• “Identity and agency in English Naming Practices of Mainland Chinese students: Implications for EAP practitioners”, paper prepared for presentation at the 2022 Global English Education China Assembly, 28-31 July 2022, Hangzhou, China. (pending review). 
• “Students’ English and Chinese names in EAP in higher education”, professional development presentation, 20 April 2022, Centre for English Language Education, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (scheduled).  
• “The claimed exam-style practice and Chinese-English translation in Chinese A level textbooks” paper accepted at the Second International Symposium on Asian Languages and Literatures (ADES), "Teaching of Asian Languages in the 21st Century", 3-4 May 2012, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.