Dr. Ting Luo - Teaching and Administration

Teaching and Learning (selective)

Teaching Qualification:

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK. 2024- .

Module Leader:

Government and Politics of AI (PG), University of Birmingham, 2024-.
AI and Sustainable Development (PG), University of Birmingham, 2024-.
Advanced Methods in Politics (UG), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021-.
Introduction to Methods in Politics (UG), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021-.
Putting Communication into Practice (PG), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021-.
MA Programme Dissertation (PG), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2022-2023.
The Political Economy of Development in Asia (PG), The Hertie School in Berlin, 2018-2019.

External Examiner:

External postgraduate programme examiner for MA in Digital Media and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the University of Sheffield, 2023- .

PhD Supervision

At MMU:

Pierre Chadelle, From Divided Elites to Public Hatred: Investigating the Impact of Elites, Media, and Echo Chambers on Public Affective Polarization on Social Media, Ongoing.

Joseph ChukwuEmeka Nwankwo, Global Digital Capitalism, Imperialism, and a 'New Africa': a Political Economic Study of Submarine Cable Ownership and Control in the Post-Colony, Ongoing.

PhD Examinations

Kris Kaleta, Beyond the Freedom Line: Analysing Libertarian Digital Community in Poland, Manchester Metropolian University, 2024.

Guodong Ju, Improving the Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ People through Intergroup and Intragroup Contact: Evidence from Chinese Social Media, LSE, 2025.

Leadership and Management

Departmental AI Lead: Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024 -.
Departmental Ethics Lead: Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024 -.
Deputy Lead: Digital Society Research Cluster, Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2023-2024.
Programme Leader: MA in International Relations and Global Communications, 2023-.
Committee member: Strategic Bidding Group of the Steering Committee, Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021-2023.
Convenor: Digital China Events, China Immersion Programme, Manchester Metropolitan University, May 2022.

Professional Activities/Service

Expert reviewer for Grants: The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities; Economic and Social Research Council.

Conference Organizer: Workshop on Nationalism, Populism and Social Media (With Yan Wang), MMU, May 12, 2023; Digital Governance in China: Towards a Chinese Model of Digital Governance? (With Daniela Stockmann), The Hertie School, June 27-29, 2019.

Journal Referee: Information, Communication and Society, Comparative Political Studies, Social Networks, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Chinese Journal of Communication, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Politics, Acta Politica, Democratization, Problems of Post-Communism, The China Quarterly, The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.

Member: American Political Science Association.

Leadership Training: Future RKE Leaders Programme 2022/2023, MMU.

Consultancy Services: International Expert (Short-term contract), 2013-2014, The China-Europe Public Administration Project II, GIZ, Germany.