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Luke Coates | 白宇轩
A/g Director | Communities and Communication National Foundation for Australia-China Relations

Mr. Luke Coates is now A/g director of Communities and Communication at the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. He completed a Master of International Politics at PKU in 2014 before going on to work in a number of research and communication roles in Beijing. He joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2016, and was Consul at the Australian Consulate-General in Shenyang. He had lived in China for eight years.

Pookong Kee
Honorary, Asia Institute

Prof. Pookong Kee is an emeritus professor at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. He was the BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University from 2019 to 2022, and Director of Melbourne’s Asia Institute from 2010 to 2018. He had held other senior public sector and academic positions in Australia, Singapore, and Japan.

Fran Martin
Professor & Reader, Culture and Communication, UoM

Dr. Fran Martin is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Between 2015-2021, she conducted an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship study that focused intensively on the subjective experiences of a group of 56 young women from China studying in Australia. Its findings were published this year in Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke U.P.).  Fran’s prior research focused on studying the production, consumption, and artistic and ideological significance of film, television, literature and other forms of cultural production in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with a specialization in themes of gender and sexuality. Her other books include Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture (HK U.P., 2003); Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke U.P. 2010); and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (with T. Lewis and W. Sun, Duke U.P. 2016).

Dr. Anthony Spires
Associate Professor - Deputy director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies

Dr. Anthony Spires is a sociologist at The University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, he is Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. Before coming to Melbourne, he was an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He was inaugural Director of the Centre for Social Innovation Studies at CUHK. His research on China encompasses political sociology, civil society, globalisation, organisational development, and philanthropy. He studies Chinese and outside organisations working on environmental issues, labor rights, HIV-AIDS, education, and other concerns that have arisen in the context of rapid urbanisation and fundamental policy changes since the early 1980s.

Professor Mark Wang
Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies

Prof. Mark Wang is the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science at Shanxi Normal University in 1982 and Master of Science at Northeast Institute of Geography and Agro-Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1982. In 1995 he gained his PhD from the University of British Columbia. Mark has been with the University of Melbourne since 1996. His recent research concerns China’s land acquisition, resettlement/displacement, migration, and water management. 

Zhou Xiaoping

Mr. Zhou Xiaoping is an artist and curator. He has been actively engaged with Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land and Kimberly. The international award-winning documentary film “Ochre and Ink” was broadcast on ABC1 in 2012, recounts his artistic journey in Australia. He has held 54 solo exhibitions worldwide. He is leader of OUR STORY: Aboriginal Chinese People in Australia project. He was Honorary Research Fellow, Asia Institute University of Melbourne (2018 – 2019)

Dr. Qiuping PAN
Honorary, Asia Institute

Qiuping Pan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne and Assistant Professor in Area Studies at the School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen Technology University. She has actively joined various grassroots initiatives to promote cross-cultural engagement and mutual understanding between Australia and China and between the Australian Chinese communities and the broader Australian society. Her research interests mainly focus on the fields of area studies, migration and development studies, and the study of Chinese overseas.