Hua Zhu#
| Membership Number: | 7101 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/88076-hua-zhu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1500-3047 |
| X: | @profzhuhua |
| Linkedin: | https://linkedin.com/in/zhu-hua-1a9a14b |
Present and Previous Positions
- January 2022 - present Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, Director, International Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London (UCL), UK
- Apr. 2020 - Dec.2021 Chair of Educational Linguistics, Director of Global Engagement, School of Education, University of Birmingham
- Feb. 2011 - Mar. 2020 Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
- Jan. 2007 - Jan.2011 Reader, School of Languages, Linguistics & Culture, Birkbeck, University of London
- Aug. 2003 - Dec. 2006 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, Newcastle University
- Oct. 2000 - Jul. 2003 Sir James Knott Post-doctoral Fellow, Newcastle University
- March - Sept. 2000 Project Officer, Department of East Asian Studies/University Library, Durham University (HEFCE-funded project: Digitalising catalogues and database of Oriental books and manuscripts)
- March 2023 - present Director of Research and Innovation, the National Consortium for Languages Education, funded by the government Department for Education, UK
- Sept. 2021 - Sept. 2024 Chair, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
Fields of Scholarship
- Child speech and language development and disorder
- Education
- Language learning and language education
- Chinese language and linguistics
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Intercultural communication
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Fellow, International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), elected
- 2019 Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), UK, elected
