Dr. Susan Huang

Business, Humanities and Social Sciences Tutor

Centre for English Language Education

• EdD
• MA TESOL
• BA in Psychology

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. 

She joined CELE UNNC in 2017 and has taught Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking (CCRT), RWAC, OCS, ESACa, and MTS & MTC. She also co-convened ESACa IC strand in 2021.

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

• Picucci-Huang, S., Miani, M. & Smith, R. (forthcoming 2025) Two is better than one? A case study of co-teaching in a transnational university in China. (Accepted under minor revision).
• Weekly, R. & Picucci-Huang, S. (2024). The intersection of Chineseness and Internationalism among Chinese Millennials at an EMI University. Global Chinese 10(2): 193-214. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2023-0033
• Picucci-Huang, S. & Weekly, R. (2024). Uniqueness and agency in English Naming Practices of Mainland Chinese Students, Names: A Journal of Onomastics 72(1):1-9. Doi: 10.5195/names.2023.2413
• Miani, M. & Picucci-Huang, S. (2023) Learning and Teaching in Transnational Education in China: Voices from Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities. Chinese Education and Society 56 (5-6): 303-308
• Miani, M. & Picucci-Huang, S. (2023). Collaborative Transnational Education in China: A Scoping Review of Emerging Research Trajectories (2016-2023). Chinese Education and Society 56 (5-6): 309-330.
• Miani, M., Wang, M. & Picucci-Huang, S. (2023). 4 Is and a Dandelion: A Conceptual Framework to Address the Curriculum Development Challenges of Sino-British Foundation Years in China. Chinese Education and Society 56 (5-6): 413-434.
• 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.