Research Interest Output of New Academic Staff

FH Newsletter 2022 Issue 1

Research Interest/Output of New Academic Staff

Research & Scholarly Activities

Prof. Stefano OCCHIPINTI

Department of English and Communication

Professor

Stefano Occhipinti is a Professor of Health Communication in the Department of English and Communication and the International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health Communication.

Prof. Occhipinti was originally trained in experimental psychology at the University of Queensland. His research has involved areas such rationality and decision making in health; the social context of men’s health (especially in cancer); cancer survivorship; stigma, and emotions in health decision making. His work has been funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the Australian Research Council, the Cancer Council Queensland, Cancer Australia, among others. His work has been published in journals such as Health Psychology, The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Journal of Thoracic Oncology (editors’ choice paper). He specialises in the application of both qualitative approaches and sophisticated quantitative analytic techniques to address complementary research questions. His current work uses hybrids of quantitative methods and discourse to address constructs such as health stigmas that are plagued by social desirability issues. Prof. Occhipinti is also involved in ongoing work examining: a) moralisation and health; b) beliefs regarding preferences for the natural (e.g., medicines, foods); and c) discourse and attitudes about robotic surgery and its connection to the social network.

Dr PAN Yiying

Department of Chinese Culture

Research Assistant Professor

Dr Pan holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at New York University Shanghai. Her research interests, include late imperial and modern Chinese history, migration and mobility, environmental history, and infrastructure studies. Her ongoing projects focus on grassroots-level mobility, which cover both human movements and the infrastructures that sustain mobility. Her first book-in-progress is about labour migration and empire building in Qing China’s southwest frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also working on a second project that investigates the infrastructural remaking of the Upper Yangtze River since the late nineteenth century. In addition to academic writing, she is preparing for a short story about sailors, which explores the tension between name and identity. Her works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including International Journal of Asian Studies and History Inquiry (Taida lishi xuebao).

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