EMPLOYMENT

Employment Within Academia

Visiting Fellowships/Partnership

Professional Services

University Services

Employment Within Academia

  • Ritsumeikan University

    Professor | College of Global Liberal Arts & College of International Relations

    2015 - Present

  • University of Nottingham

    RCUK Research Fellow | School of Politics and International Relations

    2008 - 2015

Doshisha University

Lecturer (temporary) | ‘Japan-Asia Relations’ BA course | School of Law

2016

University of Cambridge

Lecturer (temporary) | ‘Chinese Politics – Global Dimension’ MPhil course | School of Politics and International Studies

2011

The Australian National University

Lecturer (temporary) | Global Civil Society and the Role of NGOs—the core course | Graduate School of International Affairs, Department of International Relations

2008

University of Canterbury

Lecturer (temporary) | Theory and Issues in International Relations | School of Political Science and Communication

2006 

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS/PARTNERSHIP

2027

CIW Visiting Fellowship at The Australian Center on China in the World (CIW), The Australian National University, Canberra.

2026

  • ANU-Ritsumeikan Visiting Fellowship, The Australian National University, Canberra.

  • CIW Visiting Fellowship Program, at The Australian Center on China in the World (CIW), The Australian National University, Canberra.

2018 - 2019

Fulbright Fellowship at Ash Center in Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, United States.

2011 - 2014

2007 - 2015

Partnership with Royal United Serviced Institute, for:

  • A joint international conference, ‘China’s Engagement in Non-Traditional Security: Challenges and Opportunities for UK-China Cooperation’;

  • Joint policymakers’ workshop on UK-China non-traditional security cooperation

Visiting Fellowship at Department of International Relations, The Australian National University, Canberra.

2009

  • Visiting Fellowship at the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

  • Visiting Fellowship at the School of Government, Beijing University.

  • Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of International Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.

2003 - 2004

  • Visiting Fellowship at Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

  • The Australian National University—Beijing University Exchange Scholarship.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

  • 2021 - present

    The China Quaterly Editorial Board Member

  • 2020 - 2024 

    International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Executive Editor

  • 2019 - present

    Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Journal Editor

  • 2019 - present 

    Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Institute, Editorial Board Member

  • 2014 - present 

    School of Politics and international Relations, University of Nottingham, Ethics Committee

  • 2012 - 2020

    A member of UKRI/ESRC Peer Review College

  • 2016

    Consultant for Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute, to provide a report on China’s humanitarianism

  • 2012

    Consultant for Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, to provide a policy report on China’s humanitarianism for the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO)

  • 2011 - present

    Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

  • 2012 - present

    Advisory Group Member for the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, London

  • 2016 - present 

    Editor, Ritsumeikan International Affairs

  • 2011 - 2017

    Associate Editor, Political Studies and Political Studies Review

  • 2016 - present

    Associate Editor, Modern China, Japan Association for Modern China Studies

  • 2011

    Media Interview, UK-China Relations, China Daily

  • 2010 - present

    External peer-reviewer for Routledge, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Asian Affairs, International Relations, Ethnopolitics, and Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

  • 2009

    Media Interview, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio, ‘Morning’ Program, ‘Christian Values Still Spread in Secular China’

  • 2009

    External examiner of a MA dissertation for the Australian National University

UNIVERSITY SERVICES

Ritsumeikan University

2021 - 2026:

  • Associate Dean of Education, College of Global Liberal Arts.

2020 & 2023 - 2024:

  • Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, College of Global Liberal Arts

University of Nottingham

2011 - present:

  • Deputy Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.

2008 - present:

  • Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute.

2014 - present:

  • Dissertation Convener, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham,

2014:

  • Post-Graduate Dissertation Convener, School of Politics and International Relations.

The Australian National University

Representative, The China Diplomacy Research Group, ‘Aspects of the Strengthening of China’ Research Project, Institute of International Relations and Area Studies. 

2014 - present:

  • Ethics Committee Member, School of Politics and International Relations

2012 - 2013:

  • Chair of the East Asia Regional Advisory Network, International Office

2011 - 2012:

  • Research Seminar Coordinator, the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies

2012 - 2013:

  • Alumni Relations Officer, School of Politics and International Relations

2007 - 2008:

  • Humanities and Social Sciences Delegated Ethical Review Committee member.

2007:

  • Local Ethics Sub-Committee Member, the College of Asia and the Pacific