Institute members

Professor Mo Yan

Honorary Fellow and Director of Mo Yan Interdisciplinary Writing Centre

Dr Lynn Robson

Emeritus Fellow

Dr Myra Blyth

Lead Investigator of Restorative Justice project

Professor Robert Walker

Lead Investigator of Social Governance and Poverty Reduction project

Research Affiliates

Professor Dianne Purkiss

Module Lead for Language, Literature, Digital Culture and Communication

Boyd Tonkin, Hon. FRSL

Chair Judge, Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award (2021-2024)

Professor Alex Rogers

Module Lead for Business, Finance and Management

Professor Jeremy Pitt

Senior Research Associate for Technology Society and Ethics project

Dr Renaud Foucart

Research Associate

Dr Fangqi Zeng

Research Associate

Alan Percy

Chair of MWBHE (Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education), Head of Counselling Services, University of Oxford

Professor Xuemin Qi

Senior Research Associate of History and Heritage project

Tong Su

Writer-In-Residence of Mo Yan International Writing Centre

Hua Yu

Writer-In-Residence of Mo Yan International Writing Centre

Mamtimyn Sunuodula

Head of East Asia Section, Bodleian Libraries

Visiting Scholars

Professor Junling Yang

China University of Geosciences

Wenwei Chen

University of Glasgow

Administrative Staff

Louise Gordon

Grants and Publications Manager

Evie Brown

Academic Outreach Lead

Dr Lana Delerue

Programme Manager

Adam Harris

Operations Manager

Russell White

Deputy Operations Manager