Faculty Research Affiliates

Mark is lecturer in East Asian history. He has published on a range of topics in modern Chinese history, including urban history, inequality, famine, the Chinese Civil War, transport in Northwest China, and young people under Japanese occupation.

Elena is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese International Relations. Her research interests lie at the intersection of borders, identity, migration, intimacy, and citizenship in the context of globalising China.

Gordon's most recent book is China's Cold War Science Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Alison is a Lecturer in Human Geography. She research interests include the everyday practices, governance and sustainability transitions of water, energy, waste and food in China, the UK, Europe and Australia.

Whilst Yu's current projects are on Chinese translation, he has broad research interests in 'Classical Chinese Scholarship', not least the Confucian classics and classical Chinese fiction.

Heather is a founding member of the ChinaHE network. She has written and researched transnational Sino-foreign partnerships within higher education and done a lot of work with international Chinese students in the UK.

Elisa's research focuses on Chinese economic engagement overseas. She is particularly interested in the internationalisation of Chinese capital, state-business relations in China’s political economy, and, more recently, Chinese intra-African trade.

Ping is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems. His research interest is ICT for development in China.

Peter is the studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on nationalism, ideology, China and the United States.

Renfei is Presidential Fellow in Comparative and International Business. His research interests include behavioural strategy, international business, and cooperate governance, with a particular focus on China.

Her research interests include international business and strategy, with focus on the international expansion of Chinese firms.

My research focuses on Chinese international students abroad and foreign students in China in terms of their acculturation experiences and wellbeing, as well as Study Abroad Programmes.

Bill is a senior lecturer in criminology. His main interests are in comparative research on 'national' criminologies; crime and punishment in China and the Greater China region (Taiwan); regulation of sexual offenders in the community.

Richard is a Professor of Digital Development and his research specialisms include digital development, ICT4D, digital economy, digital labour, data justice and China’s digital expansion.

Deljana is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies. She is interested in the complex processes of spatial, social and technological coevolution in the context of rapidly urbanising China and wider East Asia.

Yaojun is a Professor of Social Change. His research mostly focuses on social mobility and social stratification in Britain, China and the USA as well as social capital and wellbeing in Britain, China, Australia and the USA. His interests also include generosity in Britain and immigrant integration in Britain and the USA.

Miguel is a Senior Lecturer in Education with special focus on International Development. He is particularly interested in issues around transnational and international higher education.

My research examines China’s ongoing capitalist transformation, with specific focuses on agriculture, institutional change, spatial.

Jenna is a Lecturer in International Education located in the Manchester Institute of Education. Her research expertise focuses broadly on the internationalisation of higher education. She's particularly interested in international students' transition experiences, pedagogies with international students, and curriculum internationalisation.

Khalid is a Political Economist specialising in issues relating to trade and industrial development. In particular, his work has focused on small enterprise clusters, global value chains and production networks, global standards, corporate social responsibility and technological upgrading.

Ed is a lecturer in Chinese studies and primarily an anthropologist with research interests in the past and present of socialism, transnational and cross-border connections across Asia, and northeast Asian indigenous peoples.

Gregory is a Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History. His main research interest is in the history of late-Imperial and modern China up to the 1960s, especially cultural, religious, ideological, social, and technological history.

Phil is a Professor of Innovation Management and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR). His main research interests are science, technology and innovation management policy, regional innovation, and evaluation.

David is a lecturer of Chinese politics who focuses on nationalism, ethnic politics, and authoritarian state-society relations in China. In particular, his research focuses on everyday ethnic politics in urban Hui Muslim communities.

Pei is a professor and chair of international business. His research interests include corporate governance and nonmarket strategy, with a particular focus on how foreign and domestic firms manage and exploit institutional complexity and changes in China and how their strategies and corporate governance arrangements impact upon firm outcomes, stakeholders, and wider society.

Rian is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese History. His research focuses on the historical anthropology of Muslim communities in China, including Uyghurs and Hui, with attention to China-India connections, Sino-Muslim diasporas, assimilationist colonialism, book circulation, mobility, and non-traditional archives.

Xiaobing is a Senior Lecturer in the economics of China. His research interests include labour economics, migration and urban-rural divide, with a focus on China.

Yan is a Lecturer in Social Statistics. Her research interests lie at the public opinion and political communications in cyberspace, state legitimacy and governance, as well as the redistribution of public goods.

Arkadiusz works on developing statistical methods for modelling and forecasting complex social processes, with a particular focus on migration and mobility, and combining various sources of data.

Cecilia is Professor of Spatial Planning. Her research interests include policy monitoring and spatial analysis, strategic planning, and urban and regional development policies.

As a public lawyer, my research interests lie in the following areas: constitutional review, constitutional orders of authoritarian and hybrid regimes, law and politics, legislative studies, judicial review, administrative rule-making, and comparative public law.

Amy is a Lecturer in Urban Planning. Her research focuses on urban politics and governance, urban knowledge and policy mobilities, postcolonial urban theory, and state-society relations of China.

Bowen's research explores the intersections of international and transnational higher education, examining Chinese students’ experiences and narratives, as well as the policy, curriculum, pedagogy, and power dynamics shaping these contexts.

Yawei is a Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Geography. Her research interests include technology, experience-scape, urban (in)formality, and the intersection of lifestyle migration and urbanization.

One of Wei's research interests is China's urbanisation and spatial planning.

Yangwen is a Professor of Chinese History. Trained as an economic historian, her research interests developed into studying Sino-foreign interaction through the lens of foreign goods/things indigenised in China. Other research areas include Asian naming practices, China's relations with Southeast Asia and the Asian Cold War.

Qingna is a Senior Tutor in Human and Digital Development and her research interests include digital transformation, digital platform and China’s digital expansion.