Dr Jing Huang joined the Department in 2021. Before that she worked as a visiting lecturer in the School of Education at Birmingham, and a research fellow at the University of Bath for an ESRC project. Prior to her academic career in the UK, Jing taught English language in China for some years.

Trained as a sociolinguist and education researcher, I have published on subjects including diasporic heteroglossia, translanguaging, social media discourse, and superdiversity. My current research focusses on enhancing communicative competence and cultural understanding among social members with migrant backgrounds.