Vivien Xiaowei Zhou

vivien xiaowei zhou

Dr Vivien Xiaowei Zhou

Lecturer

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  V.Zhou@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Intercultural Communication and Deputy Programme Leader for MSc Intercultural Business Communication. My academic speciality is based in Educational studies. My research interests primarily concern the intercultural dimension of human identity, communication and relations, particularly the narrativity of individuals’ lived experiences of interculturality. My published work to date has explored university students’ reflective and dialogic practices in intercultural education settings. I am currently interested in exploring how intercultural communication studies can benefit from intellectual dialogue across linguistic, disciplinary, and epistemic traditions (or put differently - between 'dominant' and 'alternative' knowledges). I have edited (with Nick Pilcher) a special issue entitled "Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing 'culture'" for the journal Language and Intercultural Communication (Volume 19, Issue 1).

At the Business School, I lead postgraduate modules in intercultural communication and intercultural competence. I have also developed and delivered two popular undergraduate modules on intercultural competence through studies of Mandarin Chinese.

I hold a BA and an MA in English Language and Literature from Peking University, China. My PhD is in Intercultural Communication from the University of Manchester, UK. I was a committee member of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) from 2014 to 2018. Currently I am the Book Reviews editor of the journal Language and Intercultural Communication.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Conference organiser: for IALIC 2017 "Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing 'culture'" https://staff.napier.ac.uk/ialic2017

 

Editorial Activity

  • Book reviews editor of the journal Language and Intercultural Communication
  • Guest Editor (Language and Intercultural Communication, Special Issue 19.1)

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • 'Current trends in intercultural communication studies', presented at the Academic Forum Series, June 2021, Harbin Engineering University, China
  • 'But students don't interact - what do they learn?' Negotiating interculturality in internationalising higher education, presented at the 'Interculturality in a Precarious Future: Multiple Contexts, Multiple Voices' symposium (October 2018), University of Leeds

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Ed.D. external examiner (Durham University, School of Education, 2019)
  • Ph.D. external examiner (Durham University, School of Education, 2018)
  • Ed.D. external examiner (Durham University, School of Education, 2016)
  • Ph.D. external examiner (UCL Institute of Education, 2015)

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer for Migration Studies
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Language and Education
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education
  • Reviewer for Language and Intercultural Communication

 

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Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism

Journal Article
Zhou, V. (2022)
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism. Language and Intercultural Communication, 22(3), 294-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2046768
This paper examines some philosophical groundwork underlying intercultural studies through an inter-epistemic dialogue with Buddhism. This dialogue joins resonating developmen...

Researching multilingually and inter-epistemically: constructing a ‘cross-cultural dialogue’ between intercultural communication and Buddhism

Presentation / Conference
Zhou, V. X. (2021, November)
Researching multilingually and inter-epistemically: constructing a ‘cross-cultural dialogue’ between intercultural communication and Buddhism. Paper presented at IALIC 2021 'Language, culture and interculturality: Global debates, local challenges', Bogota, Colombia (online
In this talk, I discuss how I identified points of dialogue between intercultural communication theories and the Buddhist Middle Way by traversing linguistic and epistemic lan...

Intercultural business education: The role of critical theory and experiential learning

Book Chapter
Holmes, P., & Zhou, V. X. (2020)
Intercultural business education: The role of critical theory and experiential learning. In J. Jackson (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. Abingdon: Routledge
Workplaces, both locally and globally, are increasingly characterised by complexity, ambiguity, and diversity, but also by individual distinctiveness and local relations. Peop...

Revisiting the ‘third space’ in language and intercultural studies

Journal Article
Xiaowei Zhou, V., & Pilcher, N. (2019)
Revisiting the ‘third space’ in language and intercultural studies. Language and Intercultural Communication, 19(1), 1-8. doi:10.1080/14708477.2018.1553363
No abstract available.

Tapping the thirdness in the intercultural space of dialogue

Journal Article
Zhou, V. X., & Pilcher, N. (2018)
Tapping the thirdness in the intercultural space of dialogue. Language and Intercultural Communication, 19(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2018.1545025
In this paper, we explore intercultural communication as dialogue occurring in a third space. Through seven students' reflective essays on group-based intercultural learning, ...

‘Intercultural competence’ as an intersubjective process: a reply to ‘essentialism’

Journal Article
Zhou, V. X., & Pilcher, N. (2018)
‘Intercultural competence’ as an intersubjective process: a reply to ‘essentialism’. Language and Intercultural Communication, 18(1), 125-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2017.1400510
In this paper, we problematise a competence-oriented reflective approach to intercultural education by drawing on four students’ reflective essays about their experiential lea...

A 'third space' perspective on intercultural dialogue

Presentation / Conference
Zhou, V. X., & Pilcher, N. (2017, June)
A 'third space' perspective on intercultural dialogue. Paper presented at 17th International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) annual conference - Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing 'culture', Edinburgh Napier University
No abstract available.

Interdisciplinary methodologies in different cultures of learning: Apples and Pears?

Conference Proceeding
Macdonald, I., Firth, R., Foster, M., & Zhou, V. (2014)
Interdisciplinary methodologies in different cultures of learning: Apples and Pears?
This paper explores the reception and analysis of different methodologies in an inter-disciplinary pedagogical collaboration involving Design and Business academics and their ...

Re-constructing “culture of learning” – international student experiences in China and the UK.

Conference Proceeding
Foster, M., Macdonald, I., Firth, R., & Zhou, V. (2014)
Re-constructing “culture of learning” – international student experiences in China and the UK
Following previous Teaching Fellows funding to undertake a joint research project between Business School and the School of Arts & Creative Industries we would like to present...

Multiple perspectives in re-constructing ‘culture of learning’ – international student experience in China and the UK.

Presentation / Conference
Foster, M., & Zhou, V. (2014, January)
Multiple perspectives in re-constructing ‘culture of learning’ – international student experience in China and the UK

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