Dr Haili Li

Haili Li is a lecturer in Media and Communications at the Department of Communications, Drama and Film, University of Exeter. Prior to joining Exeter in July 2023, she worked as a postdoc for the ERC Starting Grant project Digital Governance in China at Freie Universität Berlin. Haili obtained her PhD degree from the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology in September 2021. Her research has primarily focused on digital media and cultures, digital technologies and public engagement, digital inequalities, migration, and the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality. Haili Li has been endorsed as a global talent by the British Academy starting from June 2023. 

Email: h.li5@exeter.ac.uk

Office Address: Office 16, Alexander Building, Thornlea, Exeter, EX4 4LA, UK

Research supervision:

Haili Li welcomes research proposals/projects from a diverse array of domains, encompassing but not limited to digital media and cultures, digital technologies and public engagement, digital inequalities and inclusion, digital diasporas, as well as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality studies.

PhD supervision

Ziyi Song, Perception, Negotiation and Representation: Cultural Identities of Young British Chinese on Social Media, University of Exeter

Jing Lei, Reshaping Gender Dynamics in Chinese Pop Culture Fandoms, University of Exeter

Qiaosong Xi, Rebellious Daughters: Everyday feminist activism on Chinese social media, University of Exeter

Ao Xiang, Gender Performance and Identity Negotiation among Chinese LGBTQ+ Beauty Vloggers: A Comparative Study of TikTok and Douyin

Qianqian Li, An exploration of the digital menstrual activism in the Chinese public sphere: a relay of digital menstrual activisms on Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu

Management and leadership:

Sep 2023-present, Academic Conduct Officer (ACO) of the Department of Communications, Drama and Film