People

Directors

Dr Chenchen Zhang is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA). Her current research focuses on postcolonial nationalism, the global right, and digital narratives. She is a co-editor of Geopolitics and editorial team member of Made in China Journal.

Ferran Perez Mena, Deputy Director

Dr Ferran Perez Mena is an Assistant professor in IR of East Asia in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA). His research interests include transnational elite networks in East Asia, Chinese think tanks and foundations, modern Chinese international thought, and Global IR and Non-Western IR.

Fellows

Fellow	Research interest summary (full information on profile pages)
Dr Sare Aricanli	History of early modern and modern China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of science and medicine, as well as China’s place in a globalising world.
Dr Sam Berlin	Cultural politics of futurity, particularly in relation to development, security and gender.
Professor Qing Cao	Chinese media, communication, and modern intellectual history.
Dr Gordon Cheung	China and the global political economy, Chinese business networks and the political economy of Chinese food.
Dr Samuel Horlor	Ethnomusicologist and scholar of popular music currently most interested in global street music, Chinese-language performances in the UK, and audience research.
Dr Will Lo	Higher education policy and comparative and international higher education, with a focus on East Asia
Dr Loretta Lou	The intersection of ecology, health, spirituality, healing, and activism.
Professor Catherine Montgomery	Internationalisation of higher education; transnational higher education in China and East Asia.
Professor Michael Crang	Cultural geography
Professor Marcus Power	Political, economic and historical geographies of development.
Dr Tadhg O'Laoghaire	Ethics; political philosophy; international justice
Dr Wenjuan Ruan	Corporate finance, corporate governance, sustainable finance, and FinTech.
Mr Don Starr	Chinese literature; Classical and modern Chinese language
Professor Dylan Sutherland	Contemporary East Asian business, with a specific focus on Chinese business.
Dr Cora Xu	Education mobilities and social inequalities. Her research examines how the intersection of class, gender, ethnicity, rural-urban divides, time, and geopolitics can shape social agents’ educational and life trajectories.
Dr Bowen Zhang	Internationalisation of Chinese higher education; transnational higher education.
Dr Zhichao Zhang	Exchange Rate Theory and Policy; International Finance; Chinese Financial Markets; Emerging Economy Finance; Economics of Transition
Dr Yimin Zhao	Critical urban studies and the spatial politics of urban change
Professor Binghan Zheng	Translation and interpreting studies (TIS), with particular emphasis on cognitive translation studies, translation process research and neuroscience of translation.

Members

Dr Craig Barclay	Head of Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Professor Martin J. Ward	Department of Physics

Research Students