Dr Ivy Xiaoyan Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow

HHB924
+852 2766 7472
ivy.xy.wu@polyu.edu.hk

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Teaching Areas

Intercultural communication
Second language acquisition

Research Interests

Research Output

Turnbull, M., & Wu, X. I. (2025). Navigating migration and cancer in Asia: a narrative analysis of stories told by Filipino migrant domestic workers with breast cancer. Journal of Migration and Health, 12, 100337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2025.100337
Wu, X. I., Occhipinti, S., Watson, B. M., & Noels, K. A. (2025). The role of L2 WTC and accommodative encounters with locals in Mainland Chinese students’ sociocultural adaptation to Hong Kong. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2025.2480731
Wu, X. I., Watson, B. M., & Baker, S. C. (2024). The role of language use and communication in Mainland Chinese students' cross-cultural adaptation to Hong Kong: a qualitative investigative study. Language and Intercultural Communication, 24(1), 20–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2250748
Wu, X. I., Occhipinti, S., & Watson, B. M. (2023). Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong: an intergroup communication perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2287045
Watson, B. M., & Wu, X. I. (2023). Sentinel events and miscommunication - What do we know in 2021: a language and social psychology framework. Health Communication, 38(9), 1770-1779. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2031451
Turnbull, M., Yu, C., & Wu, X. I. (2023). Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: a systematic review. Patient Education and Counselling, 106, 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.10.007
Alduais, A., Majorano, M., Alduais, A., Wu, X. I., Qasem, F., Hamaguchi, P., & Bastianello, T. (2023). Pragmatic language interventions and existing competing views to improve pragmatic language skills in persons with pragmatic language impairment: an umbrella review. Applied Neuropsychology: Child. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2023.2289589
Turnbull, M., Wu, X. I., & Watson, B. M. (2022). A comparative study of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the communication practices of end-of-life workers. Communication and Medicine, 17(3), 295-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cam.19406
Wu, X. I., Turnbull, M., Yung, A., & Watson, B. M. (2022). Grief and bereavement in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10(7), 198-205. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2022.107017

Turnbull, M., & Wu, X. I. (2023). Emotional reflexivity during a global health crisis: emotion ‘work’ in online health communication research. In S. Consoli & S. Ganassin (Eds.), Reflexivity in applied linguistic research: opportunities, challenges and suggestions (pp. 17-34). Routledge.

Esteem Measures

Student Representative, The International Association of Language and Social Psychology
Member, The Asian Association of Social Psychology
Member, The International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning
Member, The Australian Sociological Association
Member, The International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health Communication

The Stephen Evans Best Thesis Award 2024-2025, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Stephen Evans Best Paper Award 2023-2024, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Outstanding Work by Students Award 2023/24, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Best Presentation Awards, The Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language and Society, Culture and Cognition
Postgraduate Performance Awards 2016/17, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University