Wei completed her PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication at King’s College London under the supervision of Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Dr Simon Coffey. She also holds an MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Peking University and a BA in English from Sun Yat-sen University.

Her research focuses on Chinese social media, multimodality, small stories, postfeminism and influencer cultures. Dr Wei teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the Department of Digital Humanities.

Before joining King’s, she worked at Gowling WLG (UK) and the China Development Research Foundation, where she specialised in desk-based research and the translation of legal, economic and political materials. She has also undertaken freelance Chinese-to-English translation for a research monograph and provided interpreting services at international conferences.

For further details please see Wei's Research Staff Profile.