Dr Ping Du

My major expertise is in research and business executive training in Intercultural Workplace communication. My research is highly interdisciplinary and incorporates the theories and methods from pragmatics, sociolinguistics and social psychology. I work with authentic interactive data such as workplace meeting recordings and emails, as well as other ethnographic data such as interviews, field observation notes and various organizational documents. My current research interests include disagreement strategies, identity construction, and cultural othering and prejudice in intercultural conflict interactions.

Funded project

Resources for Interculturality in Chinese Higher Education (RICH-Ed). 2017 – 2020. EUR€ 593,385. Funded by EU Erasmus+, the European Commission.

Intercultural Communication in the Chinese Workplace: An Ethnographic Study of Crisis Management in a Multicultural Chinese Organization. 2015-2016. Funded by IAPS (Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies) UNNC.

Intercultural Competence in Multicultural Higher Educational Workplace contexts. 2015-2017. Funded by Bureau of Education, Zhejiang Province, China.

Orcid Account/ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-9753

I joined the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in February, 2011. Before I went to study at Nottingham University UK, I worked as a lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, China.

PGT and UG levels

Modules that I have designed and taught:

• Language and Intercultural Communication (PGT)
• Sociolinguistics of Work (PGT)
• Analyzing Language in Workplace, Media and Society (PGT)
• Workplace Discourse (UG)
• Language and Context (UG)

Training and Consultancy

I also conduct training workshops for executives and managers from different lines of business in China and the UK. The areas of training include intercultural communication, negotiation and conflict management, etc. I also provide consultancy and tailored training for individual organizations.