​Research and Trajectory

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Dr Pang is Associate Professor and an Interdisciplinary Sociologist at University of Bath. Her sociologically relevant research spans two main areas. The first is centered on the lived experiences of under-represented groups, with a focus on Chinese diasporic communities, in sport, health and education. She is interested in the way how subjectivities of the self-other are constructed and negotiated in relation to local and global structures, addressing the impact of colonialism, migration and social cohesion on embodiment, representations and inequalities. Creative research methods are often used and developed alongside this area of research especially to help answer contemporary questions which are hard to reach using conventional methods. 

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The second area of her research is dedicated to theoretical advancement in relation to cultural reproduction and academic imperialism. Her work has extended Bourdieu's concepts in understanding trans-local physical education teachers, challenged mainstream sociology of the body and health research founded with dualisms, and advanced understandings of colonial and imperial assumptions and ways of constructing knowledge with under-represented communities. Her thinking is informed by the fields of sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy and pedagogy.

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She was a recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University (2019-20). She gained her PhD from the University of Queensland on a competitive UQ research scholarship, and had worked and resided in Hong Kong, Brisbane, Sydney, and Leeds. She is an Honorary Adjunct Fellow of the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.​

 

Research Governance and Service

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Dr Pang is deputy director of the Centre for Qualitative Research, and an ILM certified coach for the doctoral college network at University of Bath. Externally, she serves on the executive board of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, and she is an editorial board member of Sport, Education and Society, and associate editor for Leisure Sciences.

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Research Supervision

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Dr Pang is primary supervisor to four postgraduate research students and they are carrying out research on: an ethnographic study in kitesurfing in the lives of diasabled people (on SWDTP scholarship); online hate in football on Chinese social media (on Vice Chancellor's International Scholarship); gender and disability in China's Winter Paralympic Games; and mental health literacy and help seeking behaviour of university students in South Africa. 

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Qualifications

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PhD, MPhil, MA(Cultural Studies), BEd(Hons), PGDip(Global Health)

ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring 

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