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Dr. Sheng-hsun Lee is a Lecturer at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, specializing in intercultural and public health communication. As a core member of the Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, their research employs multimodal discourse analysis to explore how language, gestures, and material objects co-construct meaning in social contexts.
Key research areas include:
- Public health crisis communication
- Intercultural communication during study abroad
- Language learning in classroom and naturalistic settings
Recent publications analyze pandemic communication strategies through 600+ hours of press conferences and 2M+ online comments, culminating in the 2025 monograph Health Crisis Communication: Multimodal Classification for Pandemic Preparedness. Current work examines food safety crises like Taiwan's rice noodle poisoning incident in the upcoming Numbers Talk in Health Crisis Discourse.
Award highlights:
- 2021 Australian Academy of the Humanities Traveling Fellowship
- 2025 North America Taiwanese Professors' Association Young Scholar Research Award
Actively supervising PhD/MPhil/Honours projects on health discourses, intercultural communication, and language pedagogy, Dr. Lee's work bridges applied linguistics with practical communication strategy development for policymakers and health professionals.
