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Directors 

Chenchen Zhang, Director

Dr Chenchen Zhang is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA). Her current research focuses on postcolonial nationalism, the global right, and digital narratives. She is a co-editor of Geopolitics and editorial team member of Made in China Journal.

Ferran Perez Mena, Deputy Director

Dr Ferran Perez Mena is an Assistant professor in IR of East Asia in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA). His research interests include transnational elite networks in East Asia, Chinese think tanks and foundations, modern Chinese international thought, and Global IR and Non-Western IR.

Fellows

Fellow

Research interest summary (full information on profile pages)

Dr Sare Aricanli

History of early modern and modern China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of science and medicine, as well as China’s place in a globalising world.

Dr Sam Berlin

Cultural politics of futurity, particularly in relation to development, security and gender.

Professor Qing Cao

Chinese media, communication, and modern intellectual history.

Dr Gordon Cheung

China and the global political economy, Chinese business networks and the political economy of Chinese food.

Dr Samuel Horlor

Ethnomusicologist and scholar of popular music currently most interested in global street music, Chinese-language performances in the UK, and audience research.

Dr Will Lo

Higher education policy and comparative and international higher education, with a focus on East Asia

Dr Loretta Lou

The intersection of ecology, health, spirituality, healing, and activism.

Professor Catherine Montgomery

Internationalisation of higher education; transnational higher education in China and East Asia.

Professor Michael Crang

Cultural geography

Professor Marcus Power

Political, economic and historical geographies of development.

Dr Tadhg O'Laoghaire

Ethics; political philosophy; international justice

Dr Wenjuan Ruan

Corporate finance, corporate governance, sustainable finance, and FinTech.

Mr Don Starr

Chinese literature; Classical and modern Chinese language

Professor Dylan Sutherland

Contemporary East Asian business, with a specific focus on Chinese business.

Dr Cora Xu

Education mobilities and social inequalities. Her research examines how the intersection of class, gender, ethnicity, rural-urban divides, time, and geopolitics can shape social agents’ educational and life trajectories. 

Dr Bowen Zhang

Internationalisation of Chinese higher education; transnational higher education.

Dr Zhichao Zhang

Exchange Rate Theory and Policy; International Finance; Chinese Financial Markets; Emerging Economy Finance; Economics of Transition

Dr Yimin Zhao

Critical urban studies and the spatial politics of urban change

Professor Binghan Zheng

Translation and interpreting studies (TIS), with particular emphasis on cognitive translation studies, translation process research and neuroscience of translation.

 

Members

Dr Craig Barclay

Head of Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions

Professor Martin J. Ward

Department of Physics

 

Research Students 

Junyi Hao

Mingze Hou

Nannan Li

Baichuan Liu

Liu Shi

Mingqiu Zheng