School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2009 2023 2024 2028

• 9 Not started
• 78 Finished
• 90 Active

Projects per year

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  TDF: Using Artificial Intelligence technology to practice spontaneous speech: EAP learners’ perceptions of effectiveness and challenges

  He, H. & Zou, B.

  31/05/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Digital Game-Based Innovative Teaching for Student-Centred Active Learning

  Li, N., Huijser, H., Kim, J., Lu, J., Limniou, M., Wang, Q., Zhang, Q., Tay, T. T., Zhang, X., Purwanto, E., Zhou, Q., Albano, S., Ji, Q., Xiong, L., Zhao, Y., Fu, J. & Ma, T.

  1/03/23 → 31/03/26

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Higher Education 100%
  • Programs 66%
  • Online Learning 66%
  • Digital Education 66%
  • Postgraduates 66%

• 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%

• Ecological Security and Green Industrial Policy in China

  Chen, G. C. & Wang, Q.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• 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

• How binlinguals process digit naming?

  Liu, H.

  1/01/23 → 31/01/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• The internal re-mobility and socio-spatial response of international migrants

  Cao, L.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/26

  Project: Governmental Research Project

• Understanding transmedia engagement of romance fandom

  Hu, T.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Fandom 100%

• Investigating the effects of topic familiarity and working memory on writing behaviours and text quality in foreign language writing

  Wei, D.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Discourse-based Machine Translation Evaluation

  Zhang, X.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  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%
  • Russian 100%
  • Belt and Road Initiative 100%

• Population Medicine and Sustainable Development

  Valerio Mendoza, O. M., Chen, S., Bofulin, M., Wang, X., Li, J., Yang, T., Liu, F., Johnson, L. & Wanglu, H.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/26

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

  • Health Economics 100%
  • Sustainable Development 100%
  • Germany 100%
  • Digitalization 100%
  • Economic Theory 100%

• Live streamers as cultural intermediaries: Legitimating tastes and products in Chinese e-commerce

  High, M.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• 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%

• Is Chinese Official Finance Reducing Criminal Homicides in Africa?

  Che, A.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Homicide 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%

• Reappraising Rollback: Western Covert Action in the Soviet Bloc in the Early Cold War

  Long, S.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Cold War 100%
  • Action 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%

• 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., Yang, G. & Zhang, J.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

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

• 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%

• 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%

• The Republican Public: Discourses in China Before 1950

  Cheung, P.

  1/07/22 → …

  Project: Other

• Restructuring Chinese Countryside: State, Market, and Villages

  Tang, B. & Du, H.

  1/03/22 → 28/02/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Restructuring 100%

• Dyslexia in Jiangsu: Cognitive Mechanisms and Language Enhancements

  Wei, D.

  8/01/22 → …

  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

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

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

  Zhang, X.

  1/09/21 → 1/09/25

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

• China-led Multilateral Initiatives in a Comparative Perspective

  Pavlicevic, D.

  1/03/21 → 28/02/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

• 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 → 28/02/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

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

• 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.

  1/12/20 → 29/12/24

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Mobile Application 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

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

  Duggett, T.

  1/07/20 → 31/12/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Labor Movement in South China

  Lin, F. L.

  1/04/20 → 31/08/26

  Project: Internal Research Project

• NSSF: On the Cognitive Processing of China-specific Chunks.

  Wang, H.

  1/12/19 → …

  Project: Governmental Research Project

• System arrangement and capacity building of rural women's political participation

  Song, Y., Tang, B. & Liu, X.

  1/09/19 → 31/12/24

  Project: Governmental Research Project

  • Political Participation 100%
  • Capacity Building 100%
  • Rural Women 100%

• Collecting the Red Era in Contemporary China

  Williams, E.

  1/09/19 → 31/12/24

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Exterior Modernism at Mid-Century: War, Trauma, Memory

  Liu, Y.

  1/01/19 → 30/06/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • War trauma 100%
  • Modernism 100%
• Not started

  PGRS: Mental health and communication: News coverage and social media of patients in the UK

  Kitis, E. D.

  9/09/25 → 9/09/28

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Mental Health 100%

• A cross-sectional study of source-based academic writing practices in the multilingual and multimodal era

  Sun, Q.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/27

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Multilingualism 100%
  • era 100%
  • Multi-modal 100%
  • Academic Writing 100%
  • Cross-Sectional Study 100%

• Investigating the interplay between students’ and teachers’ digital academic literacies in an EMI university

  Sun, Q., Zhang, Y. & Bi, X.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Interplay 100%
  • Academic Literacy 100%
  • Digital 100%

• HSS-RSF: Investigating students’ multilingual and multimodal academic literacies in dissertation writing in an EMI university.

  Sun, Q., Zhang, X. & Zhao, F.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/25

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Multilingualism 100%
  • Academic Literacy 100%
  • Multi-modal 100%

• Relating children’s vocabulary development to the properties of caregivers’ child-directed speech in the Chinese context

  Wang, L.

  Project: Internal Research Project

• PGRS2312001: Transforming Chinese secondary school students into emergent bilinguals in an English language classroom—A longitudinal pedagogical intervention that deploys translanguaging to stimulate agentive learning

  Zhao, Y., Ruan, Z. & Magliacane, A.

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • Expenditure 100%
  • Tuition Fee 100%
  • Secondary School Student 100%
  • Conferences 100%
  • Translanguaging 100%

• TDF: Developing a Corpus of Business Languages in Modern Langguages Centre (CLT, JPL, SPA) Phase 1

  Takewa, M., Yang, F. & Jeaco, S.

  Project: Internal Research Project

• Health Cultures in the Global South

  Scott, P.

  Project: Collaborative Research Project

• An investigation of using Web 2.0 (Wiki) to enhance foreign language learning between China and UK universities

  Zou, B.

  Project: Internal Research Project

  • UK 100%
  • Web 2.0 100%
  • Foreign Language Learning 100%
  • China 100%
  • Wiki 100%
• Finished

  Profiling factors that characterize EFL learners’ WTC-talk realisation: A Q methodology perspective

  Zhou, Q. & Sun, Q.

  15/07/24 → 1/09/24

  Project: Internal Research Project