School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2009 2023 2024 2028

• 8 Not started
• 91 Finished
• 95 Active

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• Bad Press? Global Media Debates on Noam Chomsky

  Bergman, T.

  1/02/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Communicating Public Health Emergencies in Suzhou: A Case of COVID-19

  Kuang, X.

  1/04/20 → 31/10/20

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • COVID-19 100%
  • Public Health 100%

• Study on Strategies of Corporate Image Creation and Promotion in Strategic Emerging Industries in Suzhou

  Wang, H., Wang, X. & Yang, Y.

  1/04/20 → 1/09/20

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Specific Industry 100%
  • Corporate Reputation 100%

• Labor Movement in South China

  Lin, F. L.

  1/04/20 → 31/08/26

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Research on influencing factors of user loyalty and improving mechanism of service quality on knowledge payment platform

  Jin, X., Bi, X., Yang, L., Teng, C., Dong, J., Wei, X., Wang, J., Xu, F. & Ouyang, C.

  1/05/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Quality of Service 100%
  • Influencing Factor 100%

• Translating Lexical Chunks in Chinese Political Discourses:A cognitive-processing approach

  Wang, H.

  1/06/20 → 31/05/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Cognitive Processing 100%
  • Lexical 100%
  • Chunk 100%
  • Political Discourse 100%
  • Cognitive Process 100%

• Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest (1791): A Scholarly Edition

  Duggett, T.

  1/07/20 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Historical Thinking 100%
  • Romance 100%
  • Ruin 100%
  • abbeys 66%
  • Gothic architecture 66%

• Effect Size Reporting and Interpreting Practices in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Academic Journals: A survey of two discipline

  Wei, R. & Kuang, X.

  1/09/20 → 29/02/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Social Science 100%

• The Evolution of Institutional Discursive Power of Developing Countries and Its Construction in the New Era

  Sun, F., 武祥, 吴虚怀, 周逸江 & 蒋海然

  1/09/20 → 31/07/25

  Project: Governmental Research Project

• PGRS: Computer-Mediated Communication and identity formation of South African ESL Teachers in China

  Kitis, E. D.

  9/09/20 → 9/09/23

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Computer-Mediated Communication 100%
  • Identity Formation 100%
  • China 100%

• Cognitive benefits of learning a second language at an old age

  Liu, H. & Wang, H.

  23/10/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Internal Research Project

• The research and development of the multi-dimensional automated Chinese speech grading mobile application

  Wu, Y., Shen, X., Zou, B., Lin, Y., Gao, S., Hui, Y., Su, J. & Chen, T.

  1/12/20 → 29/12/24

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Mobile Application 100%

• Translation and the Second World War: Lin Yutang’s Vision of the New World Order

  Long, Y.

  1/01/21 → 1/01/22

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Second World War 100%

• The geographical changes in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

  Cao, L.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/22

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Macao 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%

• An Online Open-Source Database for the Dongba Pictographic Writing System

  PERONO CACCIAFOCO, F.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Languages 100%
  • Oral Tradition 100%
  • Writing Systems 100%
  • Deciphering 100%
  • Ethnolinguistics 100%

• Cross-cultural Translation: The Dissemination and Reception of Lin Yutang’s English translation and writing in the Anglophone World

  Long, Y.

  1/02/21 → 1/02/25

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • English Translation 100%
  • Anglophone World 100%
  • Dissemination 100%
  • Cross-cultural Translation 100%

• Adding Chinese Collocations to A Multilingual Terminological Resource

  L'Homme, M. & Han, Z.

  1/03/21 → 31/05/21

  Project: Other

  • Chinese 100%
  • Specialized dictionary 33%
  • semantic properties 33%
  • Linguistics 25%

• China-led Multilateral Initiatives in a Comparative Perspective

  Pavlicevic, D.

  1/03/21 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• The discursive construction of Shanghai in English-language media

  Kitis, E. D.

  1/03/21 → 28/02/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Discursive construction 100%
  • Shanghai 100%
  • English (Language) 100%

• Chinese Literature as World Literature: Translating, Performing and Consuming Chinese Plays for the Anglophone Stage through the Royal Shakespeare Company

  Long, Y.

  1/03/21 → 28/02/26

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • World literature 100%
  • Royal Shakespeare Company 100%
  • Anglophone 100%
  • Chinese Literature 100%

• English vocabulary learning apps and self-directed learning: how language learning theories and pedagogies underlying apps design influence users’ self-directed vocabulary learning behaviours

  Li, C.

  15/03/21 → 14/09/23

  Project: Other

• Enhancing Research-Led Teaching & Learning for Postgraduate Research Students through Interdisciplinary Research

  Liu, X., Tang, B., Han, J. & Kuang, X.

  1/04/21 → 30/04/23

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Science Fiction 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • China 66%
  • Identity 50%
  • Social Inequality 50%

• Exploratory Research Project on Lexical Profiling

  L'Homme, M., Drouin, P., Han, Z. & Robichaud, B.

  4/05/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Lexical 100%
  • Research Project 100%
  • Text linguistics 50%

• SURF: Reception Studies and Game Localisation

  Wang, H.

  28/05/21 → 1/09/21

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Reception studies 100%

• VIP II: Voice-text integrated system for interpreters.

  Zhang, X.

  1/09/21 → 1/09/25

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

• A History of Climate and Literature: A Comparison of Chinese and Western Texts

  Liu, X., Johns-Putra, A., Cesarino, L., RA1 & RA2

  1/09/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Medical Objects in Motion: Collecting, Display and Representation of Chinese Medicine in the UK

  Zhu, J.

  1/09/21 → 1/09/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine 100%
  • Motion 100%

• Memories of pluralism: urban space and religion in contemporary China

  Pellegrini, P. & Cappelletti, A.

  15/10/21 → 30/09/25

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Religion 100%
  • Urban Spaces 100%
  • China 100%

• A comparative study of Automatic and manual evaluation of Chinese pronunciation and intonation

  Shen, X., Wu, Y. & Zou, B.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/23

  Project: Governmental Research Project

• To Use or Not to Use? A Relational Approach to ICTs as Repertoire of Contention

  Kuang, X.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Contention 100%
  • Repertoire 100%
  • Digital 100%
  • Framing 100%
  • Information Technology 100%

• Dyslexia in Jiangsu: Cognitive Mechanisms and Language Enhancements

  Wei, D.

  8/01/22 → …

  Project: Governmental Research Project

• PhD supervisor/supervisee relationships and PhD students’ work and life at XJTLU

  Pellitteri, M.

  1/03/22 → 31/08/23

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Doctor of Philosophy 100%

• Restructuring Chinese Countryside: State, Market, and Villages

  Tang, B. & Du, H.

  1/03/22 → 28/02/26

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Restructuring 100%

• Advance HE Global Impact Grant 2022-2023

  Li, N., Wang, Q., Tay, T. T., Zhou, Q. & Lu, J.

  31/05/22 → 31/05/23

  Project: Other

• Study on the development of Suzhou's live streaming e-commerce ecosystem

  Zhu, X., Huang, Y., Song, Y. & Hu, C.

  1/06/22 → 31/10/22

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Live Streaming 100%

• The Republican Public: Discourses in China Before 1950

  Cheung, P.

  1/07/22 → …

  Project: Other

• Flexible Labor Market Development, Problems, and Governance in Manufacturing Industry in the Context of China's Industrial Upgrading

  Lin, F. L.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Labor Market 100%
  • Manufacturing Industry 100%

• Use of Machine Learning in a Transnational Higher Education Institution

  High, M., Mcintosh, A., Li, S. & Ji, Y.

  1/09/22 → 1/01/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Machine Translation 100%
  • Education Institution 100%
  • Machine Learning 100%
  • Learning System 100%
  • Host Institution 25%

• China through sequential art in Europe: commercial, transcultural, and social dimensions of Chinese comics published in Italy, France, Germany, and England (2000-2020)

  Pellitteri, M., Caschera, M., Zhang, X. & Xu, X.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • England 100%
  • Italy 100%
  • Transcultural 100%
  • Europe 100%
  • China 100%

• Investigating the impact of teacher corrective feedback on Willingness to Communicate (WTC): The case of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) learners

  Zhou, Q. & Shen, X.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Willingness to Communicate 100%
  • Chinese 100%

• An exploratory study of using an artificial intelligence speech evaluation system for English speaking practice

  Zou, B., Wei, R., Sun, Q., Huang, L., Zhao, K., Zhang, J. & Yang, G.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Evaluation System 100%
  • Exploratory Study 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • English 100%
  • Exploratory 100%

• Linguistic demands of EMI in Higher Education: A corpus-based analysis of reading and writing in university settings in China, Italy, Thailand and the UK

  Liu, T.

  1/09/22 → 31/10/25

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Thailand 100%
  • Italy 100%
  • corpus-based analysis 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • China 100%

• Reading Group for PhD Students on Classics of the Social Sciences and Humanities

  Pellitteri, M.

  5/09/22 → …

  Project: Other

  • Social Science 100%

• The constraints and preferences of joint leisure behaviour among family members

  Cao, L.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/26

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Family Member 100%

• The transformation of Chaotianmen in Chongqing city: from market town to metropolitan center

  Hidalgo, M.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

• The Intellectual Dimensions of Sino-Russians Relations: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Greater Eurasian Partnership

  Shangguan, L.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Sociology of Knowledge 100%
  • Belt and Road Initiative 100%

• Understanding transmedia engagement of romance fandom

  Hu, T.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Fandom 100%

• The bootstrapping role of prosody in infant-directed speech in early lexical learning: a longitudinal study

  Wang, L.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Longitudinal Study 100%

• Investigating Lexical and Syntactic Complexity of EAP Writing to Assist Automated Language Assessment

  Chen, C.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Language assessment 100%
  • Lexical 100%
  • Syntactic complexity 100%

• The National Image of China in the British Society: Policy Agenda, Media Representation and Public Perceptions in the 21st Century

  Wang, Q.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Medium Representation 100%
  • 21C 100%
  • national image 100%
  • China 100%
  • 21st century 100%