Who am I?

A female researcher with big cheeks who believes fortune favors the bold.

Hello! 🍀

I am Chun, born in Guangdong province, China. I am currently a PhD candidate at Maynooth University in beautiful Ireland. My doctoral thesis explores lexical diversity and discursive framing of food-related ecological neologisms, with a particular focus on how Irish media discourse constructs narratives around food transitions. I combine critical discourse analysis with corpus-based methods in the research and aim to foster the interdisciplinary dialogues between linguistics and food studies and to critically examine the impacts of language on sustainable practices.

I like hiking, playing tennis, film photography and writing traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Research interests 🤩 (open to collaborations)

Ecolinguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Discourse nalysis
Neology (food and environment related)

Education 📚

🏫 Visiting PhD programme: @Universidad de Granada· Spain
🎓 Master: Translation and Interpreting @Huaqiao University· China
🎓 Bachalor: Buiness English @Dongguan University of Technology · China

Honours 🏆

John Pat & Hume Doctoral Scholarship at Maynooth University
Honorary Title of Outstanding Graduates (BA)
Honorary Title of Outstanding Student Leader in the Student Union of DGUT (BA)
Award of The Best Charity Project for voluntary teaching in rural areas of northwestern China (Gansu)

Skills 🔍

Corpus: Sketch Engine; AntConc
Statistics and Visual: SQL; R programming
Translation Certificate: CATTI Ⅱ (China Accreditation Test for Translators and Interpreters, issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security)

Languages 🗣️

Mandarin (Native), English (work proficiency)
Teochew dialect, Cantonese (mother tongues)
Spanish, French (conversational/basic)