​Research 

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I am an Associate Professor in Sport, Culture and Society at the University of Bath. ​

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My research address inequalities and explore minority experiences, focusing on under-represented and Chinese diasporic communities across sport, health, and education. I explore how identities and embodied experiences are shaped through social relations, migration, and colonial histories, paying attention to issues of representation and the discourses that shape and marginalise these experiences, as well as how individuals and communities engage with and negotiate dominant systems.

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Central to my work is a concern with knowledge production: who produces knowledge, whose knowledge is recognised, and how certain perspectives are legitimised or excluded. I use sociological and psychoanalytic approaches, alongside creative and participatory methods, to engage forms of knowledge that are often overlooked or difficult to access through conventional research. Overall, my work seeks to reconfigure knowledge production in more reflexive, relational ways alongside under-represented communities. My theoretical orientation draws on interdisciplinary insights from sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and pedagogy.

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

 

Supervision and Teaching

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I am 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.

 

My teaching expertise includes qualitative research methods, sociology of sport and health, and sport media.

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Governance and Service

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I am deputy director of the Centre for Qualitative Research, and an ILM certified coach for the doctoral college network at University of Bath. Externally, I serve on the executive board of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, and I am an editorial board member of Sport, Education and Society.

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Qualifications 

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PhD (University of Queensland)

MA (Cultural Studies) (University of Sydney)

MPhil and BEd (Hons) (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

PGDip (Global Health) (University of Edinburgh)

ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring 

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