I joined MSA in 2022 as an academic tutor on the MArch Architecture and Urbanism theories unit. I received UG and PGT degrees in urban design and planning from XJTLU (Suzhou, China), University of Liverpool and University of Manchester, and practiced in landscape architecture in Chengdu, China.
I received my doctoral degree at the University of Manchester in 2025. My thesis – Urban nature re-encountered – explores how Chinese international students perceive, engage with, and reconfigure urban nature in Manchester through walking, sensing, documenting, and sharing. Drawing on interviews, digital diaries, and autoethnography, the research contributes to international student studies, transcultural and translocal understandings of urban nature, and human–nature relations in the context of global mobility, digitalisation, and higher education. My research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and builds on knowledge and practice across human geography, sociology, urban studies, and landscape architecture. I plan to extend my research inquiries into the entanglement between mobile populations and the more-than-human, everyday, and digitalised environments.
Since 2020, I have worked as a Teaching Assistant for various BA, BSc, MA, MSc, and MArch courses across architecture, urbanism, and planning programmes, during which I have contributed to lecturing, tutoring, delivering workshops and symposiums, dissertation supervision, designing and leading fieldtrips. I found teaching at MSA highly rewarding for its interdisciplinary and multicultural environment.
I welcome any research and teaching inquiries and collaborations.