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The goal of the network is to create a space for academics & students from across the university whose research relates to China, to share their work & promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

The network has affiliated staff and students from across Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾.ÌýIf you would like to be involved please emailÌýlucy.stagg@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliated staff | Affiliated PhD students


Affiliated staff

  • Ìý(IOE - Learning & Leadership):Ìýequality of opportunity and factors which contribute to social inequalities in education. Conducted a Research Report to review publications written in English on Early Childhood Education in the People's Republic of China.Ìý

  • (Innovation and Public Purpose): interested in Confucian Public Administration and Governance (with a special interest in Wang Anshi and in Max Weber)ÌýandÌýInnovation Policy today.

  • (Archaeology): UK Director of the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾-PKU).

  • (Information Studies):Ìýproject lead of the Chinese Export Watercolours (CEW) project. Also part of the Chinese Iconography Thesaurus (CIT) project and the Provenance of Asian Collections (PAC) project in collaboration with the V&A Museum.

  • (Slavonic and East European Studies):Ìýresearch is related to the Chinese economy, especially its financial development and debt problems.Ìý

  • (IOE SRIÌý– Thomas Coram Research Unit):Ìýher doctoral work explored how the Chinese state coordinated and understood welfare support for parents and spouses bereaved of children and/or partners during the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. She is currently exploring the position of single women (both in the PRC and the UK, in different projects).Ìý

  • (Institute for Global Prosperity):Ìýresearch at the crossroads of history, geography, politics, and society, with a specialisation in Global China and urban studies.

  • (Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction): researching carbon footprints, pollution andÌýclimate change in China.

  • (Political Science):ÌýexaminingÌýthe ways in which private actors and governments engage in a global economy, with a particular focus on East Asia. Also the effects of China’s growing influence in global politics.

  • (School of Slavonic and East European Studies): Global Economics, including China.

  • Ìý(European & Intl Social & Political Studies): works on the politics of infrastructure, looking at how grounded, field-work based research can help us understand 'global China' better. An editorÌýat the People's Map of Global China.

  • Anastasiia Rudkovska (European & Intl Social & Political Studies):ÌýChina and sustainable development

  • Ìý(Laws):ÌýCo-Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ China Centre for Politics, Law and Culture.

  • Shengxi (Eric) Xin (Bartlett School of Planning):ÌýresearchingÌýsocio-spatial governance and planning in China, particularly focusing on the rural development and community governance.Ìý

  • (Bartlett School of Planning): main interest is on urban development and environmental governance in China. Editor-in-chief ofÌýTransactions in Planning and Urban Research,Ìýa platform for diverse new inquiries and dialogues on the urban and regional development and planning processes in China.

  • (Development Planning Unit):ÌýresearchingÌýthe management of city economies, low-carbon transitions, and green and municipal finance, using China as a case study thanks to its significance in these areas.

  • (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): works on Chinese children’s everyday lives and personal relationships, and ethics in research and practices with children and young people in China.


Affiliated PhD studentsÌý

  • (History): Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine.
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  • (IOE - Social Research Institute):Ìýchild gifting-giving practices in rural China.
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  • (History): tbc
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  • (Anthropology):Ìýintersections of Digital Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. AlsoÌýwork on urban migration and rural development in China.
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  • (Institute of Archaeology):ÌýinvestigatingÌýancient foodways in Northern China through archaeobotany and SEM microscopy. Also, exploring the history of East Asian archaeology within broader socio-political contexts.
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  • (Institute of Global Health):Ìýhealth system issues, particularly the effective utilization of healthcare resources in China, especially for the aging population.
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  • (Anthropology): tbc
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  • (Institute of Archaeology):ÌýCreating a computational comparative model of linear defense system across Eurasia, including the Great Wall of China, mainly using spatial analysis and GIS modelling of archaeological remains.
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  • (Institute of Archaeology):ÌýJade in Mesoamerica and Early China
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  • (School of Slavonic and East European Studies):ÌýDigitalization policies and sustainable development: a comparative analysis of Europe and China from macro to mezzo perspectives.Ìý
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  • (Political Science):Ìýthe impact of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative policy on foreign public opinions.
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  • (Science and Technology Studies):Ìýsocial understanding of risks of longevity and guanxi practice (online and offline) in modern China.
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  • (IOE - Social Research Institute):Ìýfocuses on Chinese urban dual-earner families with pre-kindergarten child(ren), looking into the impact of intergenerational contract, China's family welfare system, gender division of labour, care relationalities, and commercialised childcare services onÌý organisation of domestic labour.
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  • (History):Ìýpracticing acupuncturist and teacher in Chinese Medicine and philosophy. Currently researchingÌýthe Tang interpolated chapters of the Huangdi Neijing.
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  • Mengci XiaoÌý(Bartlett School of Planning):Ìýresearching urban conservation discourse via a lens of public participation in China. Also issues of post-growth planning, and cultural tourism in China.
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  • Ying Yang (Institute of Archaeology):Ìýwood resource utilisation in the mausoleum of China's first emperor - Qin Shi Huang

  • (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): history ofÌýfemale education in East Asia

  • Ìý(Institute of Archaeology):Ìýimpact of climate change on archaeological sites in China and surrounding areas

  • (IOE - Education, Practice & Society):Ìýeducational inequality, social mobility, and market transition in China

  • (Institute of Archaeology):Ìýhistory of archaeological fieldwork in late modern Egypt and China c. 1894–1939. Also, broader history of Chinese archaeology and modern Chinese society

  • (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): Chinese young people’s mediated intimacy against the backdrop of neoliberalist culture. Uses a pluralistic approach toÌýengage with the complexities and ambivalences of young people’s reconfiguration of gender in everyday life during the covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan China.Ìý