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Advisory Board

Position	Name	Department	Research
Advisor	Alain Chong	Graduate School	Information systems Operations management
Advisor	Celia Lam	School of International Communications	Aesthetics of digital media production Audience and fan experience and uses of digital media Celebrity culture
Advisor	Giampaolo Buticchi	Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering	DC distribution systems and power electronics for the More Electric Aircraft High performance electric drives.

Board of Directors

Position	Name	Department	Research
Director	Filippo Gilardi	School of International Communications	Media convergence Global digital platform Copyright protection
Co-Director	Mary J. Ainslie	School of International Communications	Transnational pan-Asian media depictions Southeast Asian current social issues Media consumption in Southeast Asia
RPA Leader	Vikrant Kishore	School of International Communications	Creative/Filmmaking Practices Cinema and Celebrity Culture (Indian/Bollywood, Asian, American) Intangible Cultural Heritage (Folk and Cultural Traditions and Practices, Folk Festivals)
RPA Leader	Lily YU	School of English	Narratives, intercultural communication, and bilingualism in the museum context in China Western feminism translated and transformed in China Translation education in China Chinese interpreters in the war settings
RPA Leader	Maria Julia Trombetta	School of International Studies	Environmental governance and critical security studies Theory of securitization and sociological approaches to security
RPA Leader	Thomas Hirzel	School of International Communications	The Socio-Economic and Cultural History of Ningbo and the Lower Yangzi Region Maritime History Chinese Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities Chinese Art History Translation and Intercultural Communication in Chinese GLAMs Museum Studies

Research Priority Area Leader

Area	Name	Department	Research area
Environmental Security	Maria Julia Trombetta	School of International Studies	Environmental governance and critical security studies Theory of securitization and sociological approaches to security
Environmental Security	Faith Chan	School of Geographical Sciences	International water management policies Sustainable flood management and planning practices Flood risk assessment practices in the UK, Europe and East Asian coastal cities, deltas and their applications in both developed and developing countries
Cultural & Creative Industries	Fui Theng Leow	Nottingham University Business School China	Multimedia development and human-computer interaction, connectivism, networked and social learning, social media and digital society, instructional design and strategies, and human learning and performance. Redesigning the learning environment and developing pedagogical framework for technologies-enhanced learning and creative media.
Cultural & Creative Industries	Dimple Thadani	Nottingham University Business School China	Technology/Social Media Addiction Leadership emergence and development in online collaborative games E-Commerce: Electronic Word of Mouth and Trust E-Learning: Gamification and blended learning
Gender Studies	Lily YU	School of Education and English	Narratives, intercultural communication, and bilingualism in the museum context in China Western feminism translated and transformed in China Translation education in China Chinese interpreters in the war settings
Gender Studies	Ashley Yoon Mooi Ng	School of Education and English	Principal training and development Educational leadership and management School improvement Educational policy Teacher education Mentoring and coaching Continuous professional development and professional learning communities Gender and leadership Female in leadership role
Ningbo Studies	Thomas Hirzel	School of International Communications	The Socio-Economic and Cultural History of Ningbo and the Lower Yangzi Region Maritime History Chinese Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities Chinese Art History Translation and Intercultural Communication in Chinese GLAMs Museum Studies
Ningbo Studies	Jing Xie	School of Architecture and Built Environment	History of built environment Social and cultural sustainability of the built environment in a broad historical and cultural context Urban fabrics from the Tang-Song dynasties

Research Fellows

Name	Department	Research area
Anwei Feng	School of Education and English	Multilingualism Multilingual education
Bjarke Liboriussen	School of International Communications	Role of tools and technology in creative work Impact of digitalisation on creative practices Changing role of work spaces and collaboration
Candace Veecock	School of Eudcation and English	English Linguistics and English Applied Linguistics Linguistic agency or “agentivity” How speakers use different modes of description in the assignment of actions (including praise or blame) and how subjectivity and “cultural subjectivities” of action are mobilized in discourse
Corey Schultz	School of International Communications	Chinese art film Chinese visual culture Film phenomenology Museum studies Affect studies Representation of Jews and Jewishness in China
Dan Shi	School of Education and English	Systemic functional linguistics Multimodal studies Classroom discourse analysis Literacy development research
Derek Irwin	School of Eudcation and English	Systemic Functional Linguistics Canadian Literature Theatre
Dimple Thadani	Nottingham University Business School China	Technology/Social Media Addiction Leadership emergence and development in online collaborative games E-Commerce: Electronic Word of Mouth and Trust E-Learning: Gamification and blended learning
Grant Dawson	School of International Studies	UN peacekeeping, UN peacemaking Civil wars (especially in Namibia, Somalia, and Libya) International intervention Africa’s international politics in relation to China and Canada
Jing Xie	Department of Architecture and Built Environment	History of built environment Social and cultural sustainability of the built environment in a broad historical and cultural context Urban fabrics from the Tang-Song dynasties
Lei Hao	School of International Communications	Philosophy of technology Technological agency Identity in the digital age Cultures and politics of technology innovation in China Media convergence Blockchain technology Chinese digital platform
Lily Lin	School of Ecinomics	Dietary Patterns Food Structures and Food Chemistry Dietary Behavior and Dietary Culture Public Health Nutrition and its related health aspect Clinical Nutrition : chronic diseases (e.g. Overweight/ Obesity, Type II Diabetes, etc.)
Ping Du	School of Eudcation and English	Development of a bilingual (Chinese and English) corpus of workplace interactions in the multicultural Chinese workplace Intercultural differences in relational strategies at workplace meetings Development of frameworks for the analysis and explanation of such differences
Ricky Jeffrey	School of Eudcation and English	Educational assessment English for academic purposes Multimedia education and communication TESOL in the Chinese context Social science research methodology
Rosaria Franco	School of International Studies	Childhood, cultures of care, and welfare in Asia Social policy and societal responses to counter the effects of mass migration on children Western and Chinese humanitarian cultures in comparative perspective with reference to the assistance to Chinese child refugee children in 1950s’ Hong Kong
Svenja Hanson	Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Industrial and agricultural processes using solid carbon – coal, coke, biomass, char Life Cycle Assessment as an Environmental Management Tool Lifestyle choices, (gender) equality and sustainability
Tengwen Long	School of Geographical Sciences	Long-term environmental change Human-environmental interactions
Thomas Whyke	School of International Communications	Queer Theory’s debates around heteronormativity Fluid identities and identities without an essence Intersection between media and communication studies
Tracey Fallon	School of International Studies	Convergences between culture and politics of contemporary China Transnational reproduction of China’s official national identity through the examination of Mandarin textbooks for foreign learners
Wu Deng	Architecture and Built Environment	Sustainable eco-city development High performance building
Yanhui Zhang	School of Education and English	Computer-assisted language learning Corpus linguistics Bilingual literacy development Bilingual education
Yat Ming Loo	Department of Architecture and Built Environment	New methods aimed at a global understanding of architecture and urbanism linking the experience, knowledge and practices in the West and Asia Architecture and Immigration in London: The Lost History of Limehouse Chinatown (1900-1970)
Yu-Ting Tang	Department of Geographical Sciences	Brownfied regeneration Effects of the changing land uses on various environmental and socio-economic conditions in China
Zhen Li	School of Education and English	Higher Education
Zhuo Chen	School of Economics	Health economics Applied econometrics Social determinants of health Methods in measuring health disparities Statistical methods.

Our research fellow list is continually being updated.

Global Affiliated Research Fellows

Name	Department	Research area
Albert Salamanca	Stockholm Environment Institute (Asia)	Climate change adaptation, livelihoods, agrarian change, risk and vulnerability Leading the action research component of the Mekong Partnership for the Environment (MPE) while editing the Small Islands and Climate Change initiative in weADAPT
Chenxue You	PhD student, National University of Singapore	Relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Burma in the early Cold War era Burmese-PRC border negotiations, and why Peking and Rangoon came to the border deal as they did, through archives from Myanmar, Mainland China, Taiwan, and the USA
Chieh Huang		China,WTO, international economic law, trade disputes, Taiwan, economic agreements
Chris Hamnett	Department of Geography in King’s College London	A leading British expert on housing wealth and inheritance and a leading researcher in the fields of social polarization, gentrification and housing Currently interested in the urbanization of China and the economic and social issues involved. He is a frequent visitor to China
Crison Chien	Associate Professor of Human Geography, National Taiwan University	Development geography, the geography of globalization, transnational studies, the political economy of urban and regional development, political ecology of cross-border environmental process and governance, smart- and eco- cities, with empirical focuses on the Global South in general and post-socialist China in particular
Cristina Greco	Vice-Dean, Assistant Professor, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah (KSA)	Communication theories Semiotics Visual culture Comics studies Interactivity and digital culture Collective memory and trauma theories
Federico Caprotti	Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Exeter	Critical approaches to sustainable urbanism Eco-city projects and smart city projects in China and, more recently, also in South Africa and the EU Currently leads an international research consortium focusing on smart eco-city projects in China and the EU
Felix Olorunfemi	Associate Professor in the Social and Governance Policy Research Department, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, Nigeria	Climate change adaptation Disaster risk management Natural resource management Green Economy Energy
Frans Sengers	Postdoctoral researcher at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University	Sustainable development, socio-technical transitions, urban transport, smart urbanism, eco-cities, Thailand, China Transformative change in urban contexts, with an emphasis on ‘eco-city’ and ‘smart city’ developments within Europe and China
Gary Chen	Assisstant General Manager, HDs Schools	Healthcare Public-Private Partnership Creative industries Marine energy Outbound investment Zhejiang Province China
Gernot Klantsching	Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime and Director of the MA in Global Crime and Justice, University of York	Developing countries’ role in the international trade and control of illegal drugs and the politics of crime, health and security forces Chinese drug policy and healthcare reforms over the last three decades, as well as China’s growing economic and political engagement with West Africa, especially the trade in pharmaceuticals
Ian Baird	Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Political ecology perspective, development issues in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand Identity issues, especially amongst upland ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia, “marginal histories” China’s southern borders with Myanmar and Laos
James Griffiths	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand	Flood risk modelling of the coastal cities of Eastern China Sustainable urban water management Water resource issues in the Asia-Pacific region
Leo Lester	Research Fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC)	Established the Centre’s presence in China, building strong relations with both government and independent research centres, while leading their North East Asian research Political energy economy of China, and energy relations between the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council and North East Asian economies
Leonardo Romei	Vice-Dean, Assistant Professor, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah (KSA)	Visual Communication Communication and Society
Lila Buckley	Senior researcher in International Institute for Environment and Development	Chinese civil society, agriculture and environmental policy China-Africa agriculture technology transfer, aid, trade and investments, with a particular focus on Uganda and Malawi Disruptive change, funding, partnership and organisational management approaches from the perspective of NGO leaders in the Global South
Ming-Yeh Rawnsley	Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Taiwan Studies	East Asian Cinema, especially Taiwan cinema and Chinese-language cinemas Cultural diplomacy and film festivals in Asia Trans-disciplinary science communications International coproduction of documentaries in China
Paul Belesky	Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, the Global Change Institute, University of Queensland	International Political Economy of East Asia Non-traditional security studies in the Asia–Pacific; the water, energy and food security nexus; food security; food policy; sustainable agriculture, rural livelihoods and agrarian change International trade and development; Chinese state capitalism; Chinese agricultural policy; China’s ‘green’ finance system
Philipp Spaeth	Senior researcher and lecturer at the institute of environmental social sciences and geography at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg	Principal investigator of the German contribution to an international research consortium with partners in China, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain, researching urban governance in Smart Eco-Cities Governance of socio-technical change (in energy and mobility), and often focusing on urban planning and interactions across governance levels
Qian Zhang	PhD student in History and classical studies, McGill University	South Asia, China, Diplomacy, International History, Modernity China’s external behaviours in terrirorial disputes Sino-Indian relations in the early Cold War period
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente	University lecturer at Leiden University	‘South-South’ development cooperation China's global role and its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean The role of natural resources in processes of development The transformation of politics under late capitalism
Xiaoming Shi (Edward)	Ningbo Xiaoshi Middle School	Science education History and philosophy of science in high school Nature of science
Xiaoyu Zhao	Assistant researcher of Institute of International Studies, the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences	Chinese Territorial Disputes International Relations theory Foreign Policy Analysis
Yu Li	Director of China-UK Research Centre for Eco-cities and Sustainable Development, Director of MSc Eco-cities; Director of Board for Chinese Society for Urban Studies; Cardiff University	Planning system; regional planning and governance, development strategy, eco-city planning and development
Yuzhou Sun	DPhil student in History, University of Oxford	Contacts between Chinese and Africans from the fifteenth century onwards, the People’s Republic of China’s engagements with Kenya and Zambia from political, ideological and social perspectives Zambia, Kenya, South Africa, and China
Zhan Huang	PhD student in the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University	Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism Food and Eating; Material and Visual Culture Consciousness and Authenticity Identity and Identification; Commodification and Consumption Power and Ideology Fieldwork Methodologies Comparative Ethnographic Studies China and East Asia

Our affiliated research fellow list is continually being updated.

PhD Fellows

Name	Department	Research area
Bilkisu HADEJIA	Nottingham University Business School	Sustainable social entrepreneurship in Emerging economies Focus on social enterprises for the physically and/or mentally challenged Looking at cross border research/comparison between Africa and China
Biruk NEGA	Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufactur	Automated fiber preforming processes for discontinuous fiber composites Computational modeling fiber reinforced composites Non-destructive inspection of fiber reinforced composites
Chang Li	School of Education and English	Translating feminism in the digital age Chinese feminism and transnational feminism
Chee Yap Chung	Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Environmental engineering, for example air pollution, waste management and water treatment
Chenxiang Ji	School of Internatial Communications	ICT for Gender Empowerment Feminist Economic Geography M-commerce and Social Media Financial and Business Journalism
Craig Simon	School of International Studies	Chinese center-local relations Chinese sister city networks IR theory Sino-US Relations Sub-state diplomacy Transnational history
Jing Huang	School of Education and English	Early years Curriculum integration / glocalisation of early years international curriculum Early childhood bilingual/multilingual education Study of cities Sex education in preschool Self-identity of faculty who works in multilingual and multicultural environment.
Lei Li	School of Geographical Science	Sustainable cities, and the influence of various actors on the decision-making process with a better understanding of how to transit a more sustainable Sponge City, with the lessons from Green Infrastructure (GI) and Nature-based Solutions (NBS)
Mengqi Shao	School of International Studies	Social justice and environmental justice achievement in the Belt and Road Initiative plan, especially for those International Cooperation Parks sites along the B&R Route
Phoebe Miles	School of Education and English	The provision of smoking cessation services within healthcare settings in China
Qianxi ZHANG	Architecture and Built Environment	Urban regeneration of the historical community
Qiyao ZHANG	School of Education and English	Feminism/Queer theory and Translation Feminist and Queer studies Translation and Activism Literary Translation
Siqun Xu	School of Education and English	Sociolinguistics Gender/Identity (qualitative methods), conversation analysis, discourse analysis, social networks and communities of practice Features of parent-child talk in single parent family context in China
Ting Lin	School of Education and English	Sexual harassment study in STEM field in higher education International higher education and sexual harassment study in cross-cultural communications Gender inequality and gender-based violence studies in higher educationEnhancement of academic experiences in higher education
Wei DONG	School of International Communications	Chinese visual culture Urban history History of immigration
Wen Xu	Nottingham University Business School	Employee and customer relationship Customer mistreatment Trust and Trust repair
Xiang (Alia) Li	School of International Studies	Policy study of cultural city branding innovation under the background of Belt and Road Initiative: A case study of city Ningbo (research topic) City branding Belt and Road Initiative Urban governance
Xuefei Tong	School of International Communications	Contemporary China’s cultural production in the internet age Changes of China’s cultural production and cultures Changes in the society’s nature in the internet age
Yidi Hua	School of International Studies	Sino-Africa relations in both political and economic fields Political and economic effect of Belt and Road Initiative
Yu YU	School of Education and English	Museum school collaboration NB culture and history
Yue Zhao	School of International Communications	Film & movie Feminism in cinema
Yufei Wang	School of International Communications	Androgynous gender representations in social media advertisements in Asia and Pacific countries
Yuxue Luo	Nottingham University Business School	Multinational companies from emerging markets Cross-cultural governance Foreign subsidiaries’ operations Subsidiary board of directors Subsidiary TMT Legitimacy in host countries Institutional factors

Our PhD fellow list is continually being updated.

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