Here is a selection of significant activities I have undertaken since starting my PhD project:
Teaching
For 'Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspective', I teach second and third year undergraduate students. This teaching experience, and especially interactions with my students have become one major source of contentment during COVID time and later the thesis writing-up period. It makes me very happy that my students have improved along the course, both their engagements with class discussions and formative marks. It is heart-warming when some students show their genuine appreciations during office hours.
I also have experience in supervising taught master’s coursework and dissertation projects and lecturing to PhD level students in research seminars.
Conferences and Invited Talks
“Repertories of control: Contrasting land rights regimes and performance of Chinese agricultural investment in Tanzania and Zambia,” a paper presented on African Studies Association Conference, November 2022.
“The heterogeneity of Chinese investors in Zambian agriculture: A typology of Chinese economic actors,” a paper presented on China and the Global South LSE ID-Fudan IGPP workshop, November 2022.
“Whose troubles whose rights? The stories of Chinese agricultural investment in Tanzania,” a guest lecture to PhD level course, “Africa and International Development” (course convenor, Dr. Xu Jin), at CIDGA, November 2022.
Events Organization and Participations
I am part of the team of Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network UK Chapter. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please feel free to email us at caacuknetwork@gmail.com
I am the founder and organizer of LSE PhD Global China Working Group. Please see our latest programme here.
I have been student organizer of LSE-UCL Land Politics and Development Seminars since 2019.
In January 2020, I co-organized a one-day workshop on ‘Chinese Positionality: A reflexive discussion on conducting research in Africa’ with colleagues in SOAS.
Schools and Public Outreach
I talked about Chinese agricultural investment in Africa in the ODI Think Change podcast episode 25: "Africa-China – where is the relationship heading?". Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts!
I entered 2021 3MT@ international competition and my video was the winning contribution at the LSE. Please find the 3-minute video I submitted here.