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Dr Tiffany Ching

Dr Tiffany Ching

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Overview

I am working with Dr Margo Louise Turnbull on a research project entitled “Exploring the interface between global and local health literacy: Health communication and migrant worker groups in Hong Kong”. This project aims to investigate, develop and pilot a framework to promote effectiveness of digital health messages targeting key migrant and ethnic minority worker groups in Hong Kong.

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
 

Research Interests

  • Health communication
  • Pragmatics
  • Metadiscourse
  • Discourse analysis
  • English for academic / specific purposes

Research Output

  • Cheng, W., & Ching, T. (2018). ‘Not a guarantee of future performance’: The local grammar of disclaimers. Applied Linguistics, 39(3), 263–301. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amw006
 
  • Cheng, W., & Ching, T. N. H. (2015). Speech acts. In J. M. Bennett (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of intercultural competence (pp. 766–769). SAGE.

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