Natalie Lau
Job Title
PhD Candidate
Research interests
Research interests
Political Communication; Authoritarianism; Nationalism; Territorial Politics; Public Opinion; East Asian Politics (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
Background
Natalie's PhD research examines the political communication of state-led nationalism as legitimation and anti-threat strategies in autocracies. Natalie is also working on other research projects on the framing and impact of political discourses, primarily using China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan as case studies.
Previously, Natalie was a teaching-track lecturer at the College of International Education of Hong Kong Baptist University where she/they taught courses in communication studies and received two teaching awards. Natalie also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an instructional assistant.
Natalie is an interdisciplinary researcher who engages linguistics methods in political science research. She/they 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.
Publications
Lau, N. C-L., & Liu, S-J. S. (in press). Counting on Women’s Courage to Make Changes: The Framings of #MeToo in Taiwan Legislature. International Journal of Taiwan Studies.