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Call for Papers

20 January 2025

We're thrilled to announce the call for papers for our one-day conference, Exploring Chinese Heritage Language Maintenance in the UK, hosted at the University of Sheffield in 2025! Find out more information here.

SURE Showcase

21st November 2024

Today was the showcase for the Sheffield University Undergraduate Research Scheme. Tianzhe Chen, who did her SURE project on "Growing up Multilingual with Chinese Heritage" writes about her work here.

A still from one of the films, showing a hand-drawn figure of a girl. Subtitle reads "my English wasn't very good when I was younger"

Films from our data

17th November 2024

We have been working with two talented film makers, Kouer Niu and Xuan Zhu, who have each taken a data excerpt to turn into a film - read more, and watch the two films here.

Publication Day!

1st November 2024

The first journal article from the project has been published - read more about it here!

A teenage girl on stage holding a microphone. Behind her is a photo background of a city's Chinatown

Festival of the Mind

22nd September 2024

On 22nd September, nine children and young people shared data from the project as part of a performance for the University of Sheffield's Festival of the Mind. Read more about the performance here.

UKLA Conference

6th July 2024

We shared findings from the project in Brighton at the international UKLA Conference - read all about it here.

Young performers sitting around a table, planning the performance

Rehearsals

July 2024

During June and July, we are starting rehearsals for the Festival of the Mind performance in September. Read more about the rehearsal process.

Tianzhe Chen's first week joining our project

25 June 2024

Tianzhe Chen officially started her research this week. Read here about her reflections on the first week of working on our project.

Image shows Tianzhe, a young Chinese women wearing glasses. She is smiling into the camera and has her hand raised in a V sign.

Meet Tianzhe Chen, our new team member

18th May 2024

Tianzhe Chen is an undergraduate student on the School of Education's BA Education, Culture and Childhood. She has been awarded a SURE (Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience) award to work with us this summer. Read here about her planned project.

Drawn image of a group of young people sitting around a table

A Co-designed Interview Protocol

January 2024

In the design stage, we have our interview protocol co-produced with our amazing young co-researchers. Read more about our reflections and the collaborative process that shaped our local interviews.

Bartolome House at the University of Sheffield, where the first meeting was held.

First Co-researcher Meeting

July 2023

Welcome to the first blog post of our research project: “Growing Up Multilingual with Chinese Heritage.” This July, we kicked off our journey with the first co-researcher meeting!

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