People | 专家
Learn more about the academics and professionals who work at the Manchester China Institute.
MCI academic and professional staff
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Prof Peter Gries - Lee Kai Hung Chair and Director of the Manchester China Institute, and Professor of Chinese Politics
Peter Gries 葛小伟 studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on China and the United States.
Email: peter.gries@manchester.ac.uk | Telephone: +44 (0) 161 275 4646
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William Kirkby - Institute Manager
William Kirkby 李柯伟 studied an MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies before working in the educational technology sector in China for several years.
Email: william.kirkby@manchester.ac.uk | Telephone: +44(0) 161 275 8622
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Nasira Asghar – Institute Administrator
Email: nasira.asghar@manchester.ac.uk | Telephone: +44(0) 161 306 5591
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Dr Xiaobing Wang - MCI Research Director, and Senior Lecturer in the Economics of China
Xiaobing Wang researches growth and development, the role of the state, structural change, and the economics of China, with a special interest in Chinese development models, and income distribution.
Email: xiaobing.wang@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Gregory Adam Scott – MCI Teaching Director, and Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History
Gregory Scott is particularly interested in the history and culture of China between 1800 and 1978, with his published research mainly focusing on Chinese Buddhism during this period.
Email: gregory.scott@manchester.ac.uk
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MCI research associates
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Dr David Tobin – Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China
David Tobin is Hallsworth Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China. His research focuses on the relationship between identity and security in China's ethnic politics.
Email: david.tobin@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Cong Peng - Research Associate
Cong Peng 彭聪 studies the social/political psychology of emotions, with a focus on gratitude and indebtedness.
Email: cong.peng@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Katja Levy - Research Fellow
Dr Katja Levy 李可嘉 is a political scientist and Kui Man Gerry Yeung Postdoctoral Research Fellow currently studying charity and civic engagement in the UK and China. Further research interests include China's foreign relations, particularly with Europe and Latin America.
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Dr Carwyn Morris - Research Associate
Dr Carwyn Morris is a Human Geographer who researches how surveillance and censorship are practiced and imagined, digital activism, mobility and migration and the production of digital territory.
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Mr Tao Wang - PhD Student
Tao’s ongoing work centres on political representation in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations.
Email: tao.wang-3@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Hanwei Li - Research Affiliate
Hanwei Li 李晗薇 studies the sociological and educational aspects of highly skilled migration and student migration, with a focus on Europe and China.
Email: hanwei.li-2@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Pak Chun (Paton) Yam - Research Affiliate
Paton Pak Chun Yam studies the social/political psychology of emotion and intergroup contact, with a focus on intergroup schadenfreude.
Email: paton.yam@manchester.ac.uk
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MCI scholars in residence
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Nicholas McGee - Doctoral Candidate in History at the University of Toronto
[March 2020-March 2021] Nicholas McGee researches nineteenth-century conflict between the Qing and British empires over Chinese migration flows.
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Dr Di Lu – Researcher of Chinese Materia Medica and Natural History in a Global Context
[Sept 2019-March 2020] Dr Di Lu conducts research on legal issues related to Euro-American Botanical Exploration in Nineteenth-Century China.
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Ziqi Yin - PhD student in Art History, Tsinghua University, China
[Jan-March 2020] Ziqi Yin 尹子琪 focuses on the Influence of Western Art History on Chinese Art History and theory in the 20th Century.
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Dr Eric Schluessel - Assistant Professor of History and Political Science
[Oct-Nov 2019] Eric Schluessel studies the social and cultural history of Xinjiang and its connected regions.
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Extended team
Affiliated faculty
A list of Manchester China Institute affiliates:
- Dr Elena Barabantseva - Politics, School of Social Sciences. 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.
- Dr Alison Browne – Geography, School of Environment Education and Development; Sustainable Consumption Institute. 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.
- Mr William Hebenton - Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law. 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.
- Dr Ros Holmes - Art History and Visual Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Ros is a Presidential Academic Fellow in the History of Chinese Art. She works mainly on the art of twentieth-century and contemporary China with a special interest in online visual culture. Additional research interests include the circulation and consumption of state-produced rhetoric and imagery, satire and subversion, soft power and biopolitics.
- Dr Deljana Iossifova - Architecture, School of Environment, Education and Development. 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.
- Prof Yaojun Li - Sociology, School of Social Sciences. Yaojun is 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.
- Dr Miguel Antonio Lim - Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. 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.
- Dr Jenna Mittelmeier - Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. 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.
- Prof Khalid Nadvi - International Development, School of Environment Education and Development; Global Development Institute. 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.
- Dr Gregory Adam Scott - Chinese Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. 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.
- Prof Philip Shapira - Innovation Management and Policy, Alliance Manchester Business School. Phil is 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.
- Dr Xiaobing Wang - Economics, School of Social Sciences. Xiaobing is a Lecturer in the Economics of China. His research interests include labour economics, migration and urban-rural divide. Xiaobing explores these areas with a particular focus on China.
- Prof Zhongdong Wang - High Voltage Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Zhongdong is Professor of High Voltage Engineering. Her research interests include condition monitoring techniques, thermal, electrical transient and magnetic modelling techniques for transformers, insulation ageing mechanisms and alternative liquid insulating materials.
- Dr Arkadiusz Wisniowski - Social Statistics, School of Social Sciences. 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.
- Prof Cecilia Wong - Planning and Environmental Management, School of Environment, Education and Development. Cecilia is Professor of Spatial Planning. Her research interests include policy monitoring and spatial analysis, strategic planning, and urban and regional development policies.
- Dr Francesca Young Kaufman - East Asian History, School of Arts, Languages and Culture. Francesca's research focuses on the intersection of culture, history, and memory in China after 1989. She uses an interdisciplinary methodology combining cultural history and film and visual studies to explore the politics of representation in Chinese cinema and art at the end of the twentieth century.
- Prof Yang-Wen Zheng - Chinese History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Yangwen is 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.
- Dr Yong Han - Law, School of Social Sciences. Yong is a Lecturer in Commercial Law. His research interests are English commercial and private law, the contemporary relevance of aspects of Chinese legal tradition, and the Chinese legal system.
Advisory board
A list of Manchester China Institute board members: TBA
Steering committee
A list of Manchester China Institute Steering Committee members:
- Dr Elena Barabantseva - Politics, School of Social Sciences. 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.
- Dr Alison Browne – Geography, School of Environment Education and Development; Sustainable Consumption Institute. 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.
- Mr William Hebenton - Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law. 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.
- Prof Yaojun Li - Sociology, School of Social Sciences. Yaojun is 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.
- Dr Miguel Antonio Lim - Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. 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.
- Prof Khalid Nadvi - International Development, School of Environment Education and Development; Global Development Institute. Khalid is a Political Economist specializing 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.
- Prof Philip Shapira - Innovation Management and Policy, Alliance Manchester Business School. Phil is 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.
- Dr Hui Wang - Business Engagement and Support Team. Hui works as the senior China Business Engagement Executive for the University of Manchester. Her role is to catalyse and support a step change in the University’s business engagement with China, with main responsibilities to identify the opportunities for, and then develop & deliver tailor-made strategies with leading corporates.
- Dr Xiaobing Wang - Economics, School of Social Sciences. Xiaobing is a Lecturer in the Economics of China. His research interests include labour economics, migration and urban-rural divide. Xiaobing explores these areas with a particular focus on China.
- Prof Zhongdong Wang - High Voltage Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Zhongdong is Professor of High Voltage Engineering. Her research interests include condition monitoring techniques, thermal, electrical transient and magnetic modelling techniques for transformers, insulation ageing mechanisms and alternative liquid insulating materials.
- Prof Cecilia Wong - Planning and Environmental Management, School of Environment, Education and Development. Cecilia is Professor of Spatial Planning. Her research interests include policy monitoring and spatial analysis, strategic planning, and urban and regional development policies.
- Dr Alan Wu - Executive Education, Alliance Manchester Business School. Alan is Executive Director of China Programmes in the Executive Education division of Manchester Business School. His team developed customised programmes for Chinese companies, government officials and universities.
- Prof Yang-Wen Zheng - Chinese History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Yangwen is 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.