Zhù Huá (祝华), is Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, Director of the International Centre of Intercultural Studies, and Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.
[1] She was previously Chair of Educational Linguistics in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, and Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London where she was also Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy.
She has also been involved in designing a number of clinical tests for speech and language development in English and Chinese.
Zhu is the author of Phonological Development in Specific Context (2002),[2] and editor of Phonological Development and Disorder (with Barbara Dodd, 2006), Language Teaching/Learning as Social Inter-Action (with Paul Seedhouse, Li Wei and Vivian Cook, 2007), and The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader (2011).
She worked as Sir James Knott Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, Reader at Birkbeck, and has held visiting and honorary professorships in a number of Australian and Chinese universities.