PhD (Education), MSc (TESOL), MBA, BA (Hons) TESL

I am a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Education at the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE). My research focuses on intercultural education and the use of creative methods in educational research. I am particularly interested in developing critical understandings of students and intercultural experiences within higher education.

In teaching, I primarily contribute to the MA International Education program, where I lead the EDUC70621 Intercultural Communication in Education course unit. I serve as the SEED Lead for the Humanities New Academics Programme (HNAP), collaborating with school leads across the Faculty and the Programme Director, Prof. Sarah Dyer, to support the redesigned HNAP.

Main Research interests

Intercultural Education:

• Critical understandings of students and student experiences 
• Student belonging and inclusion 
• Creative approaches with ('international') students
• Intercultural ethics, epistemic justice, and epistemological plurality 
• Intercultural mindfulness

Creative Methods:

• Imagination methodology
• visual arts methods: e.g. 'blind'-portrait, photography, painting, collage, art-gallery visiting

Research Network

Executive committee member at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication 

LANTERN 

Cultnet

Reviewer & Examiner Role:

• PhD external examination for Netta Chalermpalanupap, PhD in Education, The Convenient Label of ‘Third Culture Kids’: an exploration into the impact of an international school upbringing on the development of cultural identity, belonging, and place, University of Leeds.
• External examiner for the MA Professional Language and Intercultural Studies (MAPLIS), University of Leeds

Peer Reviewer for Journals: 

Language and Intercultural Communication 

Current Psychology

Current PhD(/Mphil) Supervision:

• Agentic beings in waiting: international students’ narratives of studying abroad experience as future-making event, Xian Zhao
• Understanding Chinese international students’ interculturality through their narrated sojourn experiences in the UK, Jing Wang
• Exploring the roles of generosity in students’ intercultural experiences at a UK university, Fangfang Hong 

Intercultural Education

I lead a PGT course unit EDUC70621 Intercultural Communication in Education, which explores critical intercultural approaches to 'international' education and education 'internationalisation'.

I also design and deliver a training series on 'Creative Approaches to International Students' (CAIS) for the Institute of Teaching and Learning (ITL) at the university. The training series provides conceptual and practical opportunities for staff to reflect towards more inclusive understandings and approaches to teaching, support, and partnering with international students. 

Creative methods

I teach/contribute sessions on creative methods to PGT and PGR students in research methods units and training. 

My scholarship of creative methods is informed by the ethics of epistemic justices, and epistemological diversity and inclusion in knowledge production.