Natalie Lau
Job Title
PhD Candidate
Research interests
Research interests
Political Communication; Authoritarianism; Territorial Politics; Diaspora Politics; East Asian Politics
Background
Natalie's defended PhD research examines the political communication of state-led nationalism as legitimation and anti-threat strategies in autocracies. Natalie is also working on other research projects which broadly cover the political communication of autocracies and the Hong Kong diaspora in the UK.
Previously, Natalie was a teaching-track lecturer at the College of International Education of Hong Kong Baptist University where she/they taught courses in communication studies and received two teaching awards. Natalie also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an instructional assistant.
Natalie is an interdisciplinary researcher who completed an MSc in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, and BSocSc (Hons) in Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Publications
Lau, N. C-L., & Liu, S-J. S. (in press). Counting on Women’s Courage to Make Changes: The Framings of #MeToo in Taiwan Legislature. International Journal of Taiwan Studies.
Working Papers
Lau, N. C-L. How Multicultural Autocracy Survives: Engineering State Nationalism in Contested Territories. (R&R)