Natalie Lau
Job Title
PhD Candidate
Research interests
Research interests
Political Communication; Authoritarianism; Nationalism; East Asian Politics (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan); Territorial Politics; Public Opinion.
Background
Natalie's PhD research investigates the political communication of authoritarian legitimation through the case study of China and Hong Kong. Natalie 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.
Prior to researching at Edinburgh, Natalie was a teaching-track lecturer at the College of International Education at Hong Kong Baptist University where she/they taught courses in communication studies. She/they received two teaching awards from the university during the lectureship. Natalie also taught at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an instructional assistant.
Natalie obtained an MSc in Applied Linguistics at The University of Edinburgh. She/they also hold(s) 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.
For more information about Natalie, please find her/their latest CV here.