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Dr. Diana Yeh is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Culture, and the Creative Industries at the Department of Sociology, City, University of London. She also serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Her work bridges academic research with community engagement, focusing on East and Southeast Asian experiences in the UK and globally.
- Race and Racisms
- Migration and Cultural Politics
- Creative Industries Equity
- Anti-Asian Violence
Her research projects include the Responding to COVID-19 Anti-Asian Racial Violence through Community Care, Solidarity, and Resistance initiative, funded by Resourcing Racial Justice and the SCC Higher Education Innovation Fund. She founded the ESEA Online Community Hub to address racial violence through creative networks. Diana also led the British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project Becoming East and Southeast Asian: Race, Ethnicity, and Youth Politics of Belonging in Britain with Tamsin Barber.
Recent publications include analyses of anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, explorations of political love in creative industries, and critiques of colonial legacies in Chinese diaspora studies. She is author of The Happy Hsiungs: Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity (2014) and co-editor of Contesting British Chinese Culture (2018).
- Keynote speaker on cultural politics of migration
- Panels at Goldsmiths College and Edge Hill University
- Media commentary for BBC Radio 4, Resonance FM, and TRT World
- Consultancy for Royal Geographical Society and Penguin Books
- Collaboration with Asia-Art-Activism collective
Diana’s work challenges the racialization of East and Southeast Asian communities, advocating for anti-racist solidarities that transcend narrow ethnic boundaries. Her research emphasizes creative responses to systemic inequalities and the decolonization of academic frameworks.
