Bingchun Meng is a Professor in the Department for Media and Communications at LSE and the Director of LSE PhD Academy. She is also the Co-Director of LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy. Her research interests include gender and the media, political economy of media industries, communication governance, and comparative media studies. She has published widely in these topic areas on leading academic journals. From 2020 to 2021, she served as a Senior Fellow of Global Governance Futures 2035 organized by Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin under the sponsorship with Bosch Foundation. Her book The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation was published by Palgrave in early 2018. Her co-edited volume (with Guobin Yang and Elaine Yuan) Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience and Governance in the Covid-19 Crisis is coming out with Michigan University Press in January 2024. She is currently working on another monograph under contract with Columbia University Press about AI industries in China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Media and Communications