Amily Guenier

Dr Amily Guenier’s research interest is in communication, including intercultural communication, business communication, health communication and interpersonal communication in the healthcare and higher education context. She is currently the Chinese lecturer in UCD, teaching Chinese culture and Chinese language experience courses. She served as Business Chinese Coordinator in the London School of Economics and Political Science, teaching intercultural business Chinese communication at executive courses and intercultural communication courses to senior members in ICBC, providing business communication training to Bank of England, BP, EY, HSBC etc. before that she has been teaching undergraduate, postgraduate in the University of Manchester for 7 years. She has published widely on peer-reviewed journals. Her BA was on medicine and has been working as a medical doctor in both UK and China. Amily has also presented her academic finding in the Heidelberg University, Germany; Oxford University, UK; Regent’s University, London, UK; Edinburgh, UK; University of Liege, Belgium and University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Her PhD thesis is on enhancing Chinese philosophy and health practice in the 21 century. Amily has been the student supervisor of Study China programme for 7 years. The Study China Programme is funded by the Government department for Business, Innovation and Skills. From July 2011 to September 2017, Amily Guenier was supervisor of the UK Study China Programme, which was funded by the British government with £2.2 million.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Contemporary China
• Chinese medicine; medical anthropology
• Chinese Studies
• Chinese Diaspora (Migration and Ethnicity)
• Business communication
• Intercultural communication
• strategies for success in China and the internationalisation of Chinese companies
• business ecosystems and the management of networks of strategic alliances
• Emerging Chinese multinationals, Foreign multinationals in China, China’s integration into the global economy, Cross-border M&A, Business ecosystems and strategic alliances, global strategy.

Monograph:

• Wang, D. (2017). Traditional Chinese Medicine in Modern Era. Manchester: Manutius Press.

Publication:

• Amily Dongshuo Wang Guénier (2020) A Multimodal Course Design for Intercultural Business Communication, Journal of Teaching in International Business, 31:3, 214-237, DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2020.1831422

• Wang, D., Wang, J., Xing, M. (2019). Flipped classroom for practical skills to enhance employability: a case study of Business Chinese, International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 9(1), 19-31.

• Wang, D (2018). An integrated approach to syllabus design for Business Chinese.Inheritance and Innovation: Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language: 103-112.

• Lu, J. Wang, F. Chai, P., Wang, D. Li, L, Zhou, X (2018). Mental health status, and suicidal thoughts and behaviours of migrant children in eastern coastal China in comparison to urban children: a cross-sectional survey. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 12 (1), 13-20

• Zou, B., Wang, D., and Xing, M. (2016). Collaborative tasks in wiki-based environment in EFL learning. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 29(5): 1000-1016.