Awards & Services
Awards
Faculty Partnerships and International Award, Deakin University, 2025
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, Deakin University, 2024
Faculty Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence, Deakin University, 2022
Faculty Partnerships and International Award, Deakin University, 2021
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy International Grant, 2020-2021
Inaugural Deakin Fellowship for Internationalisation, Deakin University, 2018
Faculty Partnerships and International Award, Deakin University, 2018
Travel subsidy, Australian Academy of Humanities, 2018
Australia-China Joint-Action Program Grant funded by Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 2018-2019
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Visiting Fellowship, Centre for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
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Visiting Researcher Scholarship, Centre for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
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Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australian Government, 2015
International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), Australian Government, 2009-2013
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Services
Editor-in-Chief, Communication Research and Practice
AANZCA Regional Representative (Victoria, 2023)
​Course Director, Master of Communication (2025-)
Series editor
Bloomsbury Academic (Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies)
Editorial board member
Celebrity Studies
Communication Research and Practice
Anthem Press (Digital China Series)
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Conference organisation
The 3rd International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference, October 23-25 2026, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.
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​The 2nd International Asian Stardom and Celebrity Conference, November 27-29 2023, Tsinghua Southeast Asia Centre, Bali, Indonesia.
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The 18th Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 25-27 2021, RMIT.
The 1st Asian Stardom and Celebrity Conference, December 2-4 2019, Deakin University.
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Comparative Communication Study International Symposium, October 1-3 2018, Deakin University.