Joe (Yue Zhou) Lin

Passionate academic scholar with nine years of research and teaching in International Relations and International Political Economy with focuses on China, Development, Ecological Security Discourse, and Co-creative Pedagogy of International Studies.

• PGT Academic Writing Skills Advisor, 09/2023
• UG Dissertation Workshop Leader, 09/2023
• Reviewer of the Annual Progress Monitoring for PhD students, 09/2022, 09/2023
• Member of SPAIS-Ethics Committee, University of Bristol, 09/2021, 09/2022
• Moderator for assignments and dissertations, SPAIS, 09/2020, 09/2023
• Academic Advisor of international students, Goldsmiths, University of London, 09/2016, 09/2021

• Reviewer for Oxford Textbook – Oxford University Press
• Reviewer for Environmental Politics
• Peer Reviewer for Globalizations
• Peer Reviewer for Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
• Peer Reviewer for Brill Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power
• Convenor of Global Development Politics, Specialist Group, the UK Political Studies Association (PSA)
• Convenor of the Teaching Development Politics Initiative (TDPI)

• Does China's Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) Provide the Conditions for Solidarity and Delinking?, Principal Investigator, £500 from Global South Colloquium Fund (GSCF) of Third World Quarterly-Global Souths Hub
• The Translation Embedded Approach (TEA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): Interpreting the Post-Reform Discursive Construction of 'Chinese Socialism' and Intellectuals, Principal Investigator, £100 from Sage Research Methods
• Confronting Eurocentrism for Equality and Diversity: Innovative Pedagogical Strategies and Voices of Non-home Students in the UK, Principal Investigator, £1500 from PSA Research and Innovation Fund
• Promoting the Employment of HEI's Graduates by Reforming Training Modes: Policy Analysis and Evaluation, Data Analyst and translator, $358,000 funded by Asian Development Bank
• Foreign Languages as Cultural Capital: Empowering UK students from disadvantage backgrounds through the learning of Chinese, Research assistant, £10,000, funded by British Academy

"Resisting Neoliberalization in Global Knowledge Capitalism: How Should China's Outward-oriented Higher Education (OHE) via the Belt and Road Progress?"

In-press and forthcoming

• Lin Joe (Yue Zhou). 2025. (Forthcoming) ‘The Translation Embedded Approach (TEA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): Interpreting the Post-Reform Discursive Construction of "Chinese Socialism and Intellectuals",‘ Sage Research Methods: Cases (Scientific Methods).
• Lin Joe. 2025. ‘Does China's Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) Provide the Conditions for Solidarity and Delinking?‘ Global Souths Hub (Third World Quarterly).
• Lin Joe. 2024. ‘A Critical Review of Freya Mathews' Vision of an Eco-Daoist Civilisation,' Environmental Politics [Q1 in Environmental Science; Impact Factor (IF) 5.2], 33(5), 950-952.
• Lin Joe. 2023. ‘Confronting Eurocentrism for Equality and Diversity: Innovative Pedagogical Strategies and Voices of International Students in the UK' (final report for PSA Research and Innovation Fund).
• Lin Joe. 2023. ‘A Daoist Response to the Development-Ecological Security Paradox' (conference paper).
• Lin Joe. 2023. ‘Gramsci, the Relativity of the Integral State-Society, and the COVID-19 Interregnum,' Critical Sociology (Q1 Sociology and Political Science; IF 1.7), 49(3), 379–582.
• Lin, Joe. 2022. ‘Two decades of Gramscian scholarship in China: A Critical Retrospection,' International Gramsci Journal, 4(4), 296–319.

Under review

• ‘Decentring Ecological Security Discourses through Dao: Towards a process of "Awe-restoring" Synergisation,' Environmental Values [Q1 in Philosophy; Impact Factor (IF) 2.2].
• ‘Deneoliberalisation Towards a Global South-driven Multipolar Globalization: Prospects of China's Five Global Initiatives,‘ Third World Quarterly's Special Issue (Q1 in Development; IF 1.9).
• ‘A Political Ecological Reflection of China's Securitisation of Ecological Civilisation: Identifying the Common Sense-Good Sense in a Socio-Natural World,' Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes; IF 3.6).

In draft

• ‘Identifying "The Big Elephant in the Room:" Towards a Translation Differentiation Approach to Foreign Policy Decision-Making,' Foreign Policy Analysis (Q1 in Political Science and International Relations; IF 1.7).
• ‘Resource Curse and Debt: Towards A "Debt Trap" Typology,' Development and Change (Q1 in Development; IF 3.0).
• ‘Translation as an Inclusive Qualitative Method: A Dialogic Differentiation Approach,' Qualitative Research (Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science; IF 3.2).

Book Proposal

• International Political Theory: An Interdimensional Perspective for Palgrave Pivot.

Panel presentations (including upcoming)

• Capitalism's Socio-Natural Relations: Identifying the Dynamics of Metabolic Fragmentation, Sedimentation, and Resorption, The Power of Marxist Thought, Marxist Studies in Global and Asian Perspectives (MSGAP) Research Group, York University, Toronto, Canada, 26-27 Sept. 2025 (UPCOMING)
• BRI's Strategic Recalibration Towards Delinking: Identifying and Confronting Extractivism, The Political Economy of China's Development, Kadir Has Niversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye, 04-07 Sept. 2024
• Identifying ‘good sense' in China's ecological civilisation: An Eco-Gramscian Interpretation, Climate Change and Class Struggle, Environmental Political Economy, Panteion University, Athens, Greece, 02-04 Aug. 2024
• Co-creating Learning from an ''Aformalisation" Perspective, Bristol Institute For Learning and Teaching (BILT) Annual Conference, University of Bristol, England, UK, 10 July 2024
• The Whole Process People's Democracy: An Approach to the 21st-century Marxist Planetary Decolonisation, The Chinese characteristics of Chinese-style modernisation, Pintang Qilin Honour International Hotel, Pintang, Fujian, China, 25-27 Sept. 2023
• Decolonising IPE: A Reflection on China and the Global Socio-Ecological Crisis from a Daoist Perspective, Annual International Conference of the 45th British International Studies Association (BISA), Hilton, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 20-23 June 2023
• A Daoist Response to the Development-Ecological Security Paradox, Annual International Conference of the 73rd Political Studies Association (PSA), University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University, England, UK, 03-05 April 2023
• Progress and Challenges in Two Decades of Gramscian scholarship in China: Theory and Practice. International Conference of International Gramsci Society and Gramsci-lab: Gramsci Nel Mondo di Oggi, Cagliari, Ghilarza, and Ales, Sardinia, Italy, 30 September – 3 October 2021 (Zoom).
• In Trump's Era: Is China's global presence neo-Gramscian or neoliberal? The Political Economy of China's Development I, IIPPE Conference of CPERN at HWR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 13-15 September 2017 (£230 conference grant)

Panel host and correspondent

• Panel Chair: ‘The Belt and Road in Transformative (Tween) Years – Development, Dilemmas, and Deneoliberalisation in the Interregnum between World Capitalism and Socialist Internationalism', The Political Economy of China's Development, the 14th Annual International Conference of International Initiative For Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE): The Change World Economy and Today's Imperialism. September 4-7th, 2024, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye.
• Panel Chair: ‘Reconceptualising IR', 47th Annual International Conference of British International Studies Association (BISA): What can International Studies contribute to a summit of the future? June 20th-23rd, 2023, Hilton Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
• Panel Chair: ‘Decentring Europe and the West in Development Politics: Development-Human Security Nexus, Shared History, and Digitalised Development', under Development Politics (DP) specialist group (SG), 73rd Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual International Conference: Political Futures, April 3rd-5th, 2023, University of Liverpool, England, UK.
• Panel Discussant: ‘India Grapples with the COVID-19 Pandemic', under Global Health, South Asia in World Politics, 64th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual International Convention: Real Struggles, High Stakes Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity, March 15-18th, 2023, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• Panel Correspondent: ‘Leveraging Chinese dreams and capital: State power dynamics and sub-national industrial manoeuvres', under DPSG, 71st PSA Annual International Conference: Resilience, Expertise, & Hope, March 29th-31st, 2021, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

• 2023, Nominee for Bristol Teaching Awards: ‘Inspiring and Innovative Teaching.'
• 2022, Nominee for Bristol Teaching Awards: ‘Inspiring and Innovative Teaching.'
• 2022, Nominee for Bristol Teaching Awards: ‘Outstanding Personal Tutoring.'
• 2018, Nominee for KCL's Teacher Excellence Award (4.83/5.0 Student Evaluation)
• 2013, Awarded “Exemplar of Excellent Practice” for MA Dissertation, KCL
• 2012, Awarded “Exemplar of Excellent Practice” BSc Dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London
• 2010-2012, Awarded Royal Holloway Founder's Scholarship
• 2010, Awarded LRSM in Piano Performance
• 2008, The SE London regional Finalist in the Students Investor Challenge
• 2007, Recipient of MBF Young Talent Awards
• 2007, Recipient of Jacket Petchey Achievement Award
• 2006, Awarded Dip ABRSM in Piano Performance
• 2006, Awarded membership of the National Academy for Gifted & Talented Youth
• 2006, Received Dunraven School Townsend Award