Jing is a NAATI (National Accreditation Authority of Translators and Interpreters) certified translator and interpreter between English and Chinese, serving as a panel interpreter/translator for Multiculture NSW. She is also a NAATI examiner, with active involvement in NAATI's examination development and assessment. As a representative of the higher education sector, Jing serves on the NAATI Regional Advisory Committee in NSW.

Jing currently supervises HDR projects in areas including: systemic functional linguistics, text analysis for translation and interpreting research, process-based translation and interpreting research, translation studies using functional linguisitcs and/or eye-tracking, corpus-based translation studies, sight translation research, and studies of remote interpreting. Jing is available to supervise a PhD project in one of the above-mentioned areas.

Current HDR students: 

Stephanie Phillips (MRes Associate Supervisor): An Exploration of Autistic Discourse on Social Media.

Yi Dong (Mres): The Impact of Foreignising and Domesticating Translation Strategies on Character Construction and Reception: Responses to English Translations of a Chinese Short Story by Australian Readers

Past HDR projects supervised by Jing as Principal/Co-/Associate Supervisor:

Ruochong Su (PhD candidate, 2022-2025): The impact of foreignizing translation strategies on the reception of contemporary Chinese short fiction: empirical evidence from psychometric instruments and eye tracking. Completed on time.

Shiwei Fu (PhD candidate, 2021-2024): Characterization in literary translation: A systemic functional approach to the English translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes. Completed on time.

Xiaomin Zhang (PhD candidate, 2018-2021): Investigating explicitation in children’s literature translated between English and Chinese. Completed on time.

Mengjia Wu (MRes candidate, 2020-2021): Differences in the Process and Products of Translation and Post-editing between Bilinguals and Professional Trainee Translators: A Contrastive Study. Completed on time.

For future HDR students:

Jing is recruiting new PhD candidates to start in 2025. If you are interested in doing a PhD with Jing, please send your research proposal and a copy of your CV to [email protected].

Jing is a member of the Multilingualism Research Centre at Macquarie University.