Natalie Lau
Job Title
PhD Candidate
Research interests
Research interests
Political Communication; Authoritarianism; Nationalism; East Asian Politics (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan); Public Opinion.
Background
Natalie is an interdisciplinary researcher. Her PhD research investigates the framing of nationalist discourses through the case study of China and Hong Kong with quantitative and qualitative Linguistics methods. She is also working on other research projects on the framing and impact of political discourses, mainly using China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan as case studies.
Before embarking on her journey as a researcher, Natalie was a teaching-track lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and mainly taught courses in the art of persuasion and communication. She received two teaching awards from the university to celebrate her enthusiasm for teaching and nurturing young adults. She also worked at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where she trained undergraduate students in communication subjects.
Natalie obtained an MSc in Applied Linguistics at The University of Edinburgh. She also holds an MA in Language Studies and a BSocSc (Hons) in Government and International Studies (minored in Translation Studies), both awarded by Hong Kong Baptist University.