Zhonghan Lin is a doctoral researcher and graduate teaching fellow at the School of Education, Communication & Society at King's College London. During her time at ECS, she has served as a doctoral convener for the Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC) centre's doctoral lab. She has also worked on several research projects addressing international student belonging, race equity, assessment transparency and the educational implications of generative AI.

Before joining King's, Han had worked in the field of second language education in China, the UK and Australia since 2018, including the University of Western Australia and the British Council. In 2023, she developed and led a cultural- and exhibition-integrated language course in collaboration with the British Museum. She has also undertaken peer review for Review of Education (RoE) and contributed to the editorial board of Improving Learning through Assessment Rubrics: Students’ Awareness of What and How They Learn.

Research

Her thesis title is: Exploring Multilingualism at Home: Language Practices and Attitudes Among Diasporic London Chinese Families.

Zhonghan's academic interests include intercultural communication, multilingualism, and family language policy, particularly within Asian diasporic communities and the maintenance of heritage languages. Her research focuses on how cultural identity is negotiated across generations within families in London. Using a sociolinguistic approach, she examines the relationship between the language practices of diasporic individuals and broader societal changes. 

Her principal supervisor is Professor Beatrice Szczepek Reed. Professor Constant Leung is her secondary supervisor.

Recent publication:

Gonsalves, C. & Lin, Z. 2024. Clear in advance to whom? Exploring ‘transparency’ of assessment practices in UK higher education institution assessment policy. Studies in Higher Education. p. 1-17

Zhonghan, L. 2020. A Contrastive Study of Spatial-Temporal Metaphorical Representations in Chinese and English. Modern Linguistic,8(6).