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*On sabbatical 2025/2026 1st Semester.
My research and teaching centre on mindfulness. My work is deeply interdisciplinary, weaving together insights from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and education. I investigate how discourse, identity, and ideology are negotiated and co-constructed in educational and social contexts. Current projects include an RCT Mindfulness intervention for research postgraduate students in Macau and Hong Kong, a classroom-based mindfulness program to reduce foreign-language anxiety, and a discourse study of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) trials. See also current events at the Mindfulness Research & Teaching Group at UM.
Current Positions
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, English Language Centre, University of Macau
Honorary Associate Professor of English, School of English, University of Hong Kong
Academic Visitor, Oxford Mindfulness Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Education
PhD & MA Linguistics, University of Michigan
MPhil & BA (Hons) English, University of Hong Kong
Mindfulness teacher qualification
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCTL) Foundational Teacher Training, Trauma-sensitive Mindfulness (TSM) Training, the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
Deeper Mindfulness (DM) Teacher Training, the Mindfulness Network
Interpersonal Mindfulness Program (IMP) teacher training, Association pour le Développement de la Mindfulness
Contact katherinec@umich.edu
2025 Katherine Chen
I see language as a window to the understanding of human social relationships and meanings, and I am especially interested in the nexus of discourse, identity, and ideology in diverse contexts. See my research projects below, click the titles to go to each research page. Some papers are available at Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
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