Please report any queries concerning the funding data grouped in the sections named "Externally Awarded" or "Internally Disbursed" (shown on the profile page) to
your Research Finance Administrator. Your can find your Research Finance Administrator at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/finance/research/rs-contacts.php by entering your department
Please report any queries concerning the student data shown on the profile page to:
Email: portico-services@ucl.ac.uk
Help Desk: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ras/portico/helpdesk
Email: portico-services@ucl.ac.uk
Help Desk: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ras/portico/helpdesk
Appointment
- Student
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
Eleanor Yue Gong is a PhD candidate, trained in the fields of critical sociolinguistics, anthropology and political economy of language and discourse. She holds a MA degree in Applied Linguistics (thesis with distinction) also from UCL, a BA major degree in Spanish Language and English Literature and a BA minor degree in Economics and Financial Management. She organized a panel "(Un)thinking everyday borders" at Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022 and presented her doctoral research in several international conferences. Her research interests include language, migration and (in)mobility; language, labor and capitalism; neoliberal governmentality, and east Asian study.
Research Groups
See More
See LessResearch Themes
Research Summary
My research explores how the discourse of “meritocracy" is understood and enacted in contemporary China and how it is linked to a project of making middle class who are performing multilingual worker-citizens and neoliberal subjects in the global city Shanghai. It draws on an ethnography in a Shanghai-based industrial park of multinational companies, which constitutes a very typical multilingual and multicultural site at the centre of global capitalism.
Teaching Summary
To this point in my career, I have had opportunities to teach a diverse group of students in a wide range of educational contexts: adult English/Spanish to Chinese highly skilled professionals, junior and senior secondary students (a Shanghai-based English medium instruction education center and a London-based secondary school), and postgraduates (MA in Applied linguistics and TESOL in UCL).
