08 Sep 2023
We are pleased to welcome and introduce new faculty members to the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, the Academy of Film and Creative Technology, School of Film and TV Arts. They are Takao Terui, Yang Li and Yiming Chen. Having them on board, the School can further improve the teaching quality, expand the faculty capacity, and provide an excellent education for our programmes.
Dr Takao Terui
Courses taught
- FTA 422 Cultural and Media Policies
- FTA 425 Research Methods for Cultural and Creative Industries
- FTA 428 Intellectual Property Design and Development
Research interests
Takao's research interest is how public authorities, private business and civil society can cooperate to develop creative industries and efficient cultural policy. His research themes include film policies, crowdfunding, heritage preservation, and cultural and creative industries in the UK and Japan.
Bio
Dr Takao Terui is a Lecturer in the School of Film and TV Arts at Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University. He obtained his PhD in Culture, Media and Creative Industries from the King's College London and an MA with Distinction in International Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Warwick. His research engages with cultural policy and creative industries in the UK and Japan. His writing appears in The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy.
Previously, he worked as a research expert at Doshisha University (Japan) and Cultural Relations Platform (EU-based think-tank) as well as a project leader for the Decolonising the CMCI Curriculum at King's College London (funded by King's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fund).
Dr Yang Li
Courses taught
- FTA312 Final Year Project: Moving Image
- FTA437 Cultural Engagement in Public Space and Community
Research interests
Cultural (heritage) studies, East Asian cinematic & visual representations, gender and ethnicity in images, space and exhibition, and postcolonial & subaltern studies.
Bio
Dr Yang Li (PhD, Newcastle University, UK) is a sociologist and visual studies researcher. She is currently working as a Lecturer in the School of Film and TV Arts, teaching the final year project and the courses on the studies of cultural and creative industries. She has been trained in the multidisciplinary across the fields of sociology and media/film/visual studies. She has also previously taught and conducted research at Newcastle University, Northumbria University and Tongji University respectively. At the same time, She has worked in several film/arts festivals over the international sphere in the past few years. She has published research works in some academic journals, such as Visual Studies, Feminist Media Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Dr Yiming Chen
Courses taught
The postgraduate courses on research methods in the cultural and creative industry and content-producing
Research interests
Critically exploring the complex relationship and convergence between professional media production and digital technology and its cultural and industrial impacts.
Bio
Dr Yiming Chen is an assistant professor at the Academy of Film and Cultural Technology. He has received diverse academic training, having studied in four higher education systems in China, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Sweden. He obtained double Ph.D. degrees in professional media production studies from Uppsala University (Sweden) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) under the supervision of the current IAMCR president, Prof. Nico Carpentier.
Before joining XJTLU, he had taught at Jinan University’s School of Journalism and Communication (Guangzhou) for 11 years, where he also served as the head of a teaching and research section and a BA program director. Yiming was also an experienced media professional who had worked as a presenter, reporter and producer in television production, and he won the first prize in the Guangdong Journalism Award. He is a specially invited expert in assessing occupational skill levels for the All-media Operators in Guangdong. He has produced various publications, including two monographs, two edited books, three translated academic works and other contributions to SSCI-, CSSCI- and Scopus-indexed core journals.
TALK
Why teaching at XJTLU/SoFTA？
Takao: XJTLU/SoFTA is an ideal research and learning environment for dynamic interactions between East Asia and Europe. I believe such active dialogues between the East and the West are pivotal to broadening our understanding of creative industries and cultural policies and discussing their futures. Furthermore, combining theories and practices is crucial in cultural and creative industry studies. SoFTA is one of the best settings because of staff and students with diverse backgrounds and career plans.
Yang: Life always begins at the end of our comfort zone. I’m so excited to team up at SoFTA to take adventures together. XJTLU offers an international engagement with cultural diversity, and simultaneously, it also keeps me 'at home' cosily.
Yiming: I’m excited about the opportunity to conduct teaching and research in a multicultural environment at XJTLU and contribute to the university's internationalisation mission.
Your expectations for teaching at SoFTA…
Takao: My educational background is from the UK academia, and my research so far is about British cultural policies and creative industries. Therefore, in teaching at SoFTA, I expect to deliver lectures about European models and learn about East Asian contexts and cases from the students. Therefore, I am keen to communicate with students actively and discuss themes and topics in diverse contexts.
Yang: I hope my teaching can truly help and nourish the students, whether in their academic journey or life courses.
Yiming: I’m also eager to work with students together to explore creative education and future education. I wish my teaching philosophy would inspire students to enhance their global perspectives while fostering a deep appreciation for their native culture.
Please say something to our students…
Takao: Hello everyone! I grew up in Japan, studied in the UK, and started teaching here in Suzhou. Among the diverse institutions and countries I stayed at, I believe SoFTA/XJTLU is a fantastic place and opportunity for you! I look forward to seeing you in the class and helping you broaden your futures and possibilities!
Yang: Study hard, play hard. The more efforts, the more fortunes.
Yiming: To dream big and to have pragmatic literacy. The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Edited by Wenzhen Li
Photos provided by Takao Terui, Yang Li and Yiming Chen
08 Sep 2023