Academic

Updated: 23 May 2025

MONOGRAPH

Qiu, Y. (2025, forthcoming). An Autoethnography about Love, Hugging and Feminism (in Chinese). Guangdong People’s Publishing House. / 邱不苑. (2025). 剑桥一年：关于爱与拥抱的自我民族志, 广东人民出版社.

EDITED BOOKS

Nguyễn, L. S., Singh, G., & Qiu, Y. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Living and loving as research methodologies. Routledge.

Nguyễn, L. S., Singh, G., & Qiu, Y. (Eds.). Navigating academic space with disruptive care. (in preparation)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Qiu, Y. (2026, forthcoming). The pedagogy of hugging: Conceptualising hugging in pedagogical spaces as a way of resistance. In Bayley, A. (Ed.). Ways of Knowing: Fieldnotes from a New Materialist Postgraduate Pedagogy. Routledge.

Qiu, Y., & Liu, L. (2026, forthcoming). Hugging as a Methodology: Rethinking ‘Experiment’ in Embodied Motion, Unpredictability, and Joy (working title). In Nguyễn, L. S., Singh, G., & Qiu, Y. (Eds.), Living and Loving as Research Methodologies. Routledge. 

Qiu, Y. (2016). Study on spatial form in the narrative of ‘My Future Son’s Memories on Me’ by Luo Yijun. In Shi, Y. (Ed.), Narrative Strategy and Close Reading: Research on Mo Yan’s Medium-length Novels and Short Stories, pp. 140-164. Xiamen University Press. / 邱苑婷. (2016). 骆以军《我未来次子关于我的回忆》空间形式研究. 载于史言（编）, 叙事策略与文本细读：莫言中短篇小说研究（页140-164）. 厦门大学出版社.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Qiu, Y. (2025, forthcoming). Hugging as a Pedagogical Possibility: Body, Affects, and Feminist Cry – Fieldnotes from Online Life-writing Workshops for Chinese Women. Possibility Studies & Society (Special Issue).

Qiu, Y. (2025, in review). Techno-optimism in the face of digital divide: A systematic review on using mobile technologies for children’s environmental learning in the Global South. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (Special Issue).

Qiu, Y. (2023, March). Introduction to Samuel R. Delany: A literature review on a controversial yet enduring figure in science fiction. Science Fiction Study Newsletter, 3(1), 9-13. / 邱苑婷. (2023). 塞缪尔·德拉尼导读：充满争议，却长留历史. 科幻研究通讯, 第2卷第4期、第3卷第1期合刊, 页9-13.

ART EXHIBITIONS/CREATIVE PROJECTS

  • Becoming MushRoom @ Entangled Futures 2025: Mycelium at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Interactive nature-digital installation; Team lead)

  • A Hugging Experiment: Shapes of Hugging at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (March 2024)

RESEARCH PROJECT LEADER – ‘Studies on Folk Tales of Luo Yin in Hangzhou’ (2013-14)

National Undergraduate Training Programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2013), supervised by Prof Chen Yulun. Conducted fieldwork in Hangzhou, collecting folk tales and studying oral storytelling traditions.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

  • Cambridge Arts and Creativity Research Group Posthuman Network RA (2024-)

  • Greening Education CUPA X ICESCO, Cambridge University Press & Assessment (June - August, 2024)

  • Indigenous knowledge in textbooks in International primary education, Cambridge University Press & Assessment (June - August, 2024)

  • National Research Project of Social Sciences ‘History of Chinese Sci-Fi in the 20th Century’ (2015-16)

CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIUMS

  • Kaleidoscope 2025, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge: Academic Playground - A Hugging ‘Experiment’ (June 2025, Cambridge; Workshop presenter and organiser)

  • ELIA Academy 2025: Life-integrated Learning (June 2025, Oslo, Norway)

  • DIALOGUE Network Inaugural event ‘Recentring the Human within Nature’: ‘Experiments in decomposition: Un/knowing Nature’ (April 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge; Workshop presenter)

  • The KCL Critical Intersection Symposium (May 2025, London, UK) 

  • The 4th International Possibility Studies: Hugging as a Pedagogical Possibility: Affective Connections with Bodies and Feelings in Education as a Political Resistance (July 2024, Cambridge; Presenter)

  • The 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children's Conference: ‘In the era of climate change: Exploring research at the intersection of children, emerging technology, and environmental sustainability’ (June 2024, Delft, Netherlands; Workshop)

  • Kaleidoscope 2023, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge: ‘Stomp hard, harder!’ Dancing towards Embodied Pedagogies: My Autoethnographic Learning Journey of Street Dance and What It Enlightens (June 2023, Cambridge; Presenter & Panel moderator)

  • National Social Science Research Project ‘History of Chinese Science Fiction in the 20th Century’ Conclusion Meeting (Nov 2015, Beijing; Organiser)

TRANSLATION WORKS (English to Chinese)

  • Hey Grandude! (2020): Translator, originally by Paul McCartney, World Affairs Press.

  • Three Days to See (2018): Translator, originally by Hellen Keller, People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House.

  • Bits of Old China (2015): Co-translator with Dr Xinyue Jing, originally by William C. Hunter, Publishing House of Electronics Industry.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES

  • Senior Journalist - Journalist - Intern Journalist | Southern People Weekly《南方人物周刊》, China (2016-21)

Published 120+ non-fiction works, covering across arts, culture, education, society & environment

Two women hugging and smiling in a cozy room with a wooden table, plants, and artwork on the walls.
Decorated outdoor space with colorful Christmas lights, red curtains, and camouflage fabric ceiling, creating a festive atmosphere.
A blurred image of a woman dancing with arms outstretched in a dark setting, with Chinese text on the right side.