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Lisa Richaud holds an FNRS post-doctoral position at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Université libre de Bruxelles (2019-2022), with prior affiliation to Fudan University and King's College London through the ESRC-funded 'Migration, Mental Health and the Chinese Mega-City' project.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD from Université libre de Bruxelles (2016), focusing on socialist amateur performances in Beijing public parks
Richaud's research bridges anthropology, urban studies, and China scholarship through ethnographic investigations of marginalized urban experiences. She currently examines public solitude in Chinese night-time cities while preparing a monograph on 'Casual Assemblies: Re-Staging Socialist Amateur Performances in Beijing Public Parks' based on doctoral work. Her scholarship reveals how rural migrants navigate mental health challenges in Shanghai's megacities and how elderly citizens reclaim public space through cultural performances, contributing to critical understandings of urban citizenship in authoritarian contexts.
Her research has been recognized through:
- FNRS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-2022)
Richaud's externally funded projects demonstrate strong grant acquisition capacity, particularly in collaborative international frameworks. While her post-doctoral role typically involves project-specific research rather than primary student supervision, she actively mentors junior researchers through the ESRC and FNRS initiatives. Her work maintains consistent publication output across geography, anthropology, and urban studies journals.
She operates within ULB's Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, leveraging its focus on global contemporary phenomena while maintaining active fieldwork partnerships with Chinese institutions. Her research trajectory shows increasing specialization in Chinese urban ethnography with expanding methodological sophistication across successive funded projects.
