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Prof Rex Li

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Professor Rex Li is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Research Affiliate of School of Global Affairs and Lau China Institute at King's College London, University of London. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/rex-li

A specialist in international relations, security discourse and political communication, Rex holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield, UK. He worked as a correspondent and editor for several magazines and newspapers before joining the academia. He has also been a news commentator for the BBC World Service.

He has been Research Co-ordinator of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies at LJMU, leading and organising the REF2021 submission for this research area (UoA34). He has also been Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator of the Liverpool Screen School.

Rex has many years of experience in higher education, having taught and led courses in political science, international relations, and international journalism at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been Programme Leader of MA International Journalism and MA International News Journalism at LJMU. He has also been an external examiner of the MA programmes for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds.

He has extensive experience in supervising and examining doctoral students. He has acted as a PhD external examiner for a number of universities, such as University of Lancaster, University of Newcastle, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London, University of Westminster, and Deakin University, Australia.

For many years, Rex has lectured regularly at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He is a frequent participant and speaker at high-level meetings and international affairs think-tanks. He has acted as an advisor to the Searching for Peace Programme at the European Centre for Conflict Prevention. He has been a Research Associate of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Rex has been a co-organiser of the Pacific Rim Seminar Series funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). He has also been involved in a variety of international research projects in the UK and other countries.

Rex has been Director of the East Asian Security and Peace Project, which seeks to analyse the changing security dynamics in East Asia within the context of the global economic and strategic environment. Specifically, it considers the role of identity in shaping foreign policy discourse and security relations in East Asia. The project is supported by the Swedish foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, East Asian Peace Programme at Uppsala University and Liverpool John Moores University. It involves collaboration among scholars and think-tank specialists in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States.

Rex has presented numerous papers at academic and policy conferences in Britain, Europe, Asia and the United States. He is a book reviewer for Times Higher Education and a referee/reviewer for a wide range of academic journals and publishers.

In 2017 Rex was appointed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as a Member of its Peer Review College. He has assessed grant applications for various funding schemes and programmes for the AHRC. He has also been invited to evaluate grant applications for the ESRC and other funding bodies.

More recently, Professor Rex Li has provided input into the UKRI’s funding scheme of ‘Research and innovation ideas to address Covid-19’. He has been invited by the AHRC and ESRC to assess Covid-19 funding applications and serve as a review panel member. In addition, he has been appointed as an expert member of the shortlisting and interview panel for the ESRC Policy Fellowships scheme co-funded by UK government host organisations.

Rex has served as an Associate Editor and editorial board member of Security Dialogue, an international refereed journal published by Peace Research Institute, Oslo/Sage, London.

His academic publications include three books, many book chapters and a range of peer-reviewed articles in Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Dialogue, Contemporary Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, Pacifica Review, Global Change, Peace & Security, Asian Perspective, The Asan Forum, Asia Pacific Business Review, The World Today, and elsewhere.

He is the author of A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse (London: Routledge, 2009). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415449410/

One of his recent publications on US-China relations is “Contending Narratives of the International Order: US/Chinese Discursive Power and its Effects on the UK”, Asian Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, USA), Vol. 43, No. 2, 2019, pp. 349-385. ISSN: 0258-9184 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/725800

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