Associate ProfessorJoyce Nip

Project Opportunities

Title: Media in Chinese societies

Summary of opportunity:

Joyce is an Associate Professor in Chinese Media Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research examines media and communication in Chinese societies and communities, focusing on journalism studies, digital platforms, and public communication in contexts of social and political change. She recently completed a Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation–supported project on China’s external communication towards Hong Kong and Taiwan and is currently researching public communication in post-NSL Hong Kong.

Her work draws on her experience in journalism practice and education, bringing interdisciplinary perspectives to her teaching and research methods. She was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong (2013–14), where she conducted collaborative research on public opinion on China’s Weibo, and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park (2004–05), researching developments in public journalism. She was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship in 2021. She has served for over two decades as a judge for major journalism awards, including the SOPA Awards and the Human Rights Press Awards, and sits on the editorial boards of Asian Journal of Communication and Journalism Practice.

Opportunity synopsis:

Joyce uses social science methods to study media and communication in Chinese societies and communities, with particular interest in journalism, digital platforms, and public communication in contexts of social and political change.

Enquiries for HDR research in the following areas are encouraged:

• Public/political communication in Hong Kong
• Hong Kong's independent media
• Media in diasporic Chinese communities

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Public communication in post-NSL Hong Kong