CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. CHARITY LEE CHIN AI

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Charity Lee is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation) at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. A discourse and narrative analyst, she studies how language decides who is heard and who is spoken for in the lives of migrant, stateless and other marginalised communities. Her research runs across three connected strands: forced migration and statelessness in Malaysia and the region; health communication, spanning doctor–patient consultations, organ donation campaigns and online depression narratives; and, more recently, participatory and arts-based methods as a means of decolonising and democratising research with vulnerable groups. She is lead author of Analysing Forced Migration: A Discourse-informed Approach (Springer, 2026) and co-editor of Discursive Approaches to Politics: Legitimizing Governance (Springer, 2022), and has published in Sociological Research Online; Discourse & Society; Discourse, Context and Media; Emotion, Space and Society; Patient Education and Counseling; and the International Journal of Medical Informatics, among others. She was Principal Investigator of the Erasmus+ project Sustainable Development Goals in Journalism Reporting, and collaborates with partners in Europe, China and Southeast Asia. She teaches German linguistics at undergraduate level and discourse analysis at postgraduate level, and welcomes supervision enquiries in forced migration, health communication, narrative analysis, participatory action research and arts-based methods.
PROFILE
Address
Department of Asian and European Languages, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Office of The, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Website
umexpert.um.edu.my/charity.lee
CONTACT
Telephone
0379673045
Email
charity.lee
RESEARCH ID
QR Code
Orcid id
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0988-8101
Researcher id
N-2309-2017
Scopus id
57196254534
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Master Degree, Translation, University of Manchester (uom),
Bachelor Degree, Language and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM),
Doctoral Degree (PhD), Discourse Analysis, Universiti Malaya (UM), 2016
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP/ FELLOWSHIP
Member, Member of International Pragmatics Association, International
Member, Member of Centre of Discourse Studies, International
Member, Member of International Pragmatics Association, International
Member, Member of International Association for The Study of Forced Migration (iasfm), International
Member, International Association for The Study of Pain (iasp), International
Member, Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics (maal), National
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Faculty (Jan. 2024 to Dec. 2025)
Task Force Member
University Malaya (Sep. 2024 to Sep. 2025)
Task Force Member
University Malaya (Oct. 2024 to Oct. 2024)
Task Force Member
University Malaya (Oct. 2024 to Oct. 2025)
Task Force Member
RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT
Research Areas
H Index: 4.00
Total Journal Publication: 28
Sum of Citation: 135.00
Books: 2
Proceedings: 0
Research Grants: More than RM One million thirty four thousand forty three