Dr Ting Luo

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD in Government, LSE (2014)

MSc in Public Policy and Administration, LSE (2007)

BA in Politics, Nankai University (China) (2006)

PGCert in Higher Education, LSE (2012)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Previous employment

Postdoctoral Fellow, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany, 2018-2019

Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2014-2018

Languages

English (fluent and professional level)

Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese: mother tongue)

Why study ?

Undergraduate courses

Contemporary Political Issues: Theory and Practice

Introduction to Methods in Politics

Advanced Methods in Politics

Postgraduate teaching

Current Issues in Media and Communications

Putting Communication into Practice

Masterclass

Research expertise

• Comparative Politics
• Digital Politics
• Election and Democratization 
• Politial Economy
• Asian Politics 

Academic collaborations

Principal Investigator, “Fandom Culture and Rhetoric Online: The Self-motivated Nationalism in Authoritarian Regimes”, BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, With Yan Wang (LSE), £9,886, 2021-2023.

Co-Investigator, "COVID-19: Understanding Chinese Government Containment Measures and Their Societal Impacts", UKRI & NIHR (£334,000, 2020-2021). With Jane Duckett(PI), Ana Langer, Holly Snape, Yingru Li, and Yajun Bao, more information can be found: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/sccr/research/covid-19understandingchinesegovernmentcontainmentmeasuresandtheirsocietalimpacts/.

Post-doctoral Fellow and Project Manager, "Authoritarianism 2.0: The Internet, Political Discussion, and Authoritarian Rule in China", ERC starting grant (1.5 million Euro, 2014-2019), with Daniela Stockmann (PI) at Hertie School and Leiden University. More information can be found: https://chinainternetsurvey.net/ 

Publications

• Journal articles

  D. Stockmann, K. Hartman, T. Luo (2020). The political position generator—A new instrument for measuring political ties in China. Social Networks. 63, pp.70-79.

  D. Stockmann, F. Garten, T. Luo (2020). Who is a PRC user? Comparing Chinese social media user agreements. First Monday. 25(8),

  T. Luo (2018). Democratization from above: the logic of local democracy in the developing world. DEMOCRATIZATION. 25(3), pp.574-576.

• Chapters in books

  T. Luo, A. Lv (2021). “Nine dragons run the water”. B. Haggart, N. Tusikov, JA. Scholte. In: Power and Authority in Internet Governance. Routledge, pp.123-146.

  D. Stockmann, T. Luo (2019). Authoritarian Deliberation 2.0: Lurking and Discussing Politics in Chinese Social Media. In: Digital Media and Democratic Futures. University of Pennsylvania Press,

Invited papers

1. 2018, Sep: “Authoritarianism 2.0: Social Media and Political Participation in China”, Mapping China Summer School, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
2. 2018, Jun: “Explicit Consent and Bias When Matching Data from Social Media and Surveys” (with Daniela Stockmann), The Research Center for Contemporary China, Beijing University, Beijing, China.
3. 2016, Feb: “Social Media and Political Discussion in China”, Zhou’en Lai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
4. 2015, Sep: “Authoritarianism 2.0: Social Media and Political Discussion in China”, Communication, Conflict and Contention in the Digital Age, University of Konstanz, Germany.
5. 2015, Jul: “Which Social Media Facilitate Online Public Opinion in China?”, Multifaceted Study of Chinese Politics and Society, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (co-organized with the Lieberthal- Rogel Center for Chinese Studies-University of Michigan), Shanghai, China.
6. 2014, Nov: “Researching the Chinese Internet”, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Conference organisation

"Workshop on Digital Governance in China - Towards a Chinese Model of Digital Governance?", co-orgaznied with Daniela Stockmann, Hertie School of Governance, June 28-29, 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Expert reviewer for journals and publishers

Journal reviewer for Acta Politica, Democratization, Journal of Politics, Problems of Post-Communism, The China Quarterly.

Book proposal reviewer for Oxford University Press.

Grants

Principal Investigator, “Fandom Culture and Rhetoric Online: The Self-motivated Nationalism in Authoritarian Regimes”, BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, With Yan Wang (LSE), £9,886, 2021-2023.

Co-Investigator, "COVID-19:Understanding Chinese Government Containment Measures and Their Societal Impacts", UKRI & NIHR. With Jane Duckett (PI), Ana Langer, Holly Snape, Yingru Li, Yajun Bao.  £334,000, 2020-21.

Membership of professional associations

American Political Science Association