
Dr Bonnie Pang (PhD)
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​Research and Trajectory
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Dr Bonnie Pang is Associate Professor and an Interdisciplinary Sociologist at University of Bath. She has an established track record in understanding diaspora and underrepresented communities in health and sporting contexts. Her empirical research focuses on Chinese migration regarding identities, social cohesion and inequalities. This line of research sought to identify the nuance connections between subjectivities (internal reality) and social structures (external reality), and contribute insights into broader issues of health and sporting governance and diversity and inclusion strategies. 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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Dr Pang's theoretical interests centers on exploring the established cultural imaginary and producing new knowledge from epistemological loci other than the ones traditionally embraced by power. Her approach looks at widening the knowledge base that reshapes the academic landscape characterised by ‘a doer and done to’ binary relationship. ​Her thinking is informed by the fields of sociology, psychoanalysis and pedagogy.
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Dr Pang was a recipient of the prestigious 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, 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 is an executive board member of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, an editorial board member of Sport, Education and Society, and an 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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