Ivy Xiaoyan Wu is a PhD candidate with the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her PhD thesis is positioned at the intersection of the social psychology of language and cross-cultural psychology and investigates the role of language and communication in Mainland Chinese students’ cross-cultural adaptation to Hong Kong. Ivy takes an intergroup approach to both second language acquisition and health communication. She focuses on both practitioner-patient and practitioner-practitioner communication, and has also researched into end-of-life communication between care workers and their service users.
Zoe Yuan Zhou is a PhD student with the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.Her research interests lie in Healthcare communication, the language of psychotherapy and Counselling psychology. She is particularly interested in investigating the use of metaphor in counselling.
Danni Li is a DALS student at the Faculty of Humanity, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also an academic curator from the highly reputable Chinese Medical Association, which is also the largest medical GONGO in China with over 700,000 health professional members. Danni’s research interest focuses on the influence of speciality identity and intergroup processes and how individuals communicate interpersonally and in groups in the health context based on the social psychology of language perspective.
