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
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Visiting Researcher Scholarship, Centre for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australian Government, 2015
International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), Australian Government, 2009-2013
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
Creator and Influencer Studies
Communication Research and Practice
Anthem Press (Digital China Series)
Conference organisation
The 3rd International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference, October 23-25 2026, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.
The 2nd International Asian Stardom and Celebrity Conference, November 27-29 2023, Tsinghua Southeast Asia Centre, Bali, Indonesia.
The 18th Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 25-27 2021, RMIT.
The 1st Asian Stardom and Celebrity Conference, December 2-4 2019, Deakin University.
Comparative Communication Study International Symposium, October 1-3 2018, Deakin University.