Academic Profile

1. Chinese Diasporas 

The first area is to build and connect the findings of Chinese diasporas particularly in the areas of social inclusion, citizenship and migration, and race relations to Health, and Physical Cultures especially in the fields of mental wellbeing, and physical activity engagement. This focus meets the need of a lack of sociological imagination of Chinese diaspora communities in health and physical cultures in Anglophone countries. I have made original and sustained contributions to my internationally-situated research program, “Rethinking Health Experiences and Active Lifestyles: Chinese Communities” REHEAL-C. Together with international collaborators, I have advanced empirical and theoretical knowledge which aims to enhance an understanding of Chinese people’s experiences in health, sport and physical cultures and the nation’s capacity to promote active, healthy and inclusive citizens in an increasingly ethnic and culturally diverse environment. 

2. Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

The second area aims to promote diversity, equality and inclusion in Sport and Physical Education. My approach focuses on problematising knowledge construction and working towards epistemic equality (e.g. How do we know what we know?) and critically engaging in the pitfalls of Enlightenment thinking and the neglect of subjectivity and embodiment. Related to my everyday teaching, I explore ways of cultivating greater responsiveness among teachers and students in higher education settings through reflective practices based on e.g. strengths-based approaches, a heuristic of differences model, trans-local learning, and post-monolingual education. 

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