Professor Li Li, FGCA, is the Pro Vice-President, Newcastle University, and former Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement at the University of Exeter, UK; Founder and Director of the Exeter–Tsinghua Joint Centre for Global Humanities. She previously served as Deputy Secretary-General of the UK–China Humanities Alliance, coordinating strategic collaboration among leading UK universities, and has held visiting professorships at prestigious institutions including Tsinghua University, Wuhan University, East China Normal University and the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Li has long been engaged in English language teaching, applied linguistics, and teacher education. Her research interests include intercultural education, teacher cognition, conversation analysis, thinking skills development, and technology-enhanced language learning. She has led major international projects, such as the ESRC–MOST (Taiwan) funded study on teachers’ digital literacies across cultures and the British Council’s ‘Going Global’ project on decolonizing the curriculum. She is the author of several influential monographs, including Language Teacher Cognition: A Sociocultural Perspective, Social Interaction and Teacher Cognition, Thinking Skills and Creativity in Second Language Education, New Technologies and Language Learning, and the co-edited Routledge Handbook for Researching Teaching Thinking Skills. Many of her publications are widely used internationally as key references in academic research and teacher education. She is recognized as one of the most influential scholars in applied linguistics and global education studies.

李利教授，全球中国学术院院士，英国纽卡斯尔大学副校长、埃克塞特大学协理副校长（全球事务），清华—埃克塞特全球人文中心创始人及联席主任。曾担任中英人文联盟副秘书长，负责协调联盟内英国高校的战略合作，并在清华大学、武汉大学、华东师范大学、香港大学等知名高校担任访问教授。李教授长期从事英语教学、应用语言学与教师教育研究，主要研究兴趣为跨文化教育、教师认知、会话分析、思维技能培养及技术增强语言学习领域。她主持多项国际重大合作项目，包括英国 ESRC 与台湾科技部资助的跨文化教师数字素养研究，以及英国文化协会“全球前行”项目（去殖民化课程）。她著作丰硕，代表性出版物包括：《语言教师认知：社会文化视角》《社会互动与教师认知》《第二语言教育中的思维技能与创造力》《新技术与语言学习》以及《思维技能研究手册》等，多部著作被广泛用作国际学术研究和教学培训的重要参考文献，是国际应用语言学及全球教育研究领域极具影响力的学者之一。

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