Wei Li#
| Membership Number: | 5699 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/people/academics/qa-professor-li-wei |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2015-7262 |
| Twitter: | @professorliwei1 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/li.wei.94402343 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/li-wei-6a8b27141/?originalSubdomain=uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Director and Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
- 2015 - present Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
- 2011 - 2014 Pro-Vice-Master (Research and Postgraduate Studies), Birkbeck, University of London
- 2007 - 2014 Professor of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London
- 2002 - 2006 Head of the School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1998 - 2006 Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Fields of Scholarship
- Chinese
- Language leaning
- Language education
- Language contact
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Elected Fellow of the British Academy (Linguistics and Philology; Education), UK
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK
- 2008 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, UK
- 2008, 2014 Twice winner of the annual book prize awarded by the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
