Postgraduate research students

Prior publications

Works published at other institutions

• Professor Karen Lury

• The Quarterly Travel Fund (PGR), BAFTSS, 2025.
• Young Scholars Program travel grant from NATPA, 2025. 
• Conference waiver from Screen Studies Conference, 2025.
• SGSAH internship scheme, 2025.
• Bursary from Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference, 2024
• Travel Grant from Transgressive Women in East Asian Screen Cultures Symposium, 2024
• College of Arts and Humanities Research Support Funding, 2024 
• School Research Committee Funding, 2024 

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2026, September 2-4). ‘The Testimonies from the Plateau: Childhood’s Minoritarian Aesthetics in Tibetan New Wave’, BACS 2026, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2026, September 2-4). ‘Care, Sensory Dissonance, and Scattered Roots: Reimagining Sinophone Taiwan through Hsiao Mei-Ling’s Documentaries.’ MeCCSA 2026, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2025, September 25–26). ‘Staging Belonging: Children on School Sports Day in Taiwanese Cinema.’ Sport Politics. Histories, Media, Identities Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2025, August 23–24). ‘Transnational Cinema Networks in Cold War Asia: Affection Transcends from Taipei to Saigon.’ The Sixth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinema, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2025, August 3–10). ‘Questioning Children and Nation: A Cinematic Retrospection of Taiwanese History.’ North America Taiwanese Professors' Association (NATPA) Annual Conference, Seattle, USA.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2025, June 27–29). ‘Echoes of the Orphan: Translocalism and Operatic Return in Taiwanese Cinema.’ Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2025, June 4). ‘Cinematic marginal childhood: An overlooked perspective in Taiwanese film history.’ Workshop for Early Career Scholars on Taiwan Studies, Taiwan Research Hub, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2025, March 26–28). ‘Childhood Memory in Confrontation with Colonialism: The Duality of Locality and Globality in Taiwanese Home Movies.’ BAFTSS Annual Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2024, August 30–31). ‘Examining Film Theory in a Non-institutionalised State: Film Theory Curricula in Taiwan Higher Education.’ Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference, King’s College London, London, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2024, May 23–24). ‘Reversing Indigenous Imagination: Case Study on Taiwanese Filmmaker Laha Mebow.’ Transgressive Women in East Asian Screen Cultures Symposium, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2024, April 13–14). ‘Marvellous Encounter: Searching for American Impact in Taiwanese Newsreels (1950–1970).’ The First Graduate Symposium on Asian Studies, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, USA.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2024, January 29–30). ‘Walking through the Amateur Camera: Visualisation of Children in Colonial Taiwan.’ IAMHIST Master Class & Symposium: Hidden Archives, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2023, May 4–5). ‘How Come We Are Silenced: An Inter-Asian Comparative Analysis on Children Sexual Violence Films.’ Representations of Violence in Literature and Other Media, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2022, November 17–19). ‘The Genealogy of Comedian in Taiwan: Ti Ko-liōng, from the Club Show to the Screen.’ Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2022, The Association for Cultural Studies. (Online)

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2021, November). ‘‘We have never been troubles’: Childhood allegory in Taiwan horror films, the Tag-Along series (2015–2018).’ TCLRA International Conference, Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association. (Virtual poster)

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2021, August). ‘A Comparative Study of the Tendency and Development in Film Distribution between Taiwan and Vietnam.’ Annual Conference of Southeast Asian Studies in Taiwan, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Online)

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2021, January). ‘Seen and Unseen: How Childhood Is Reflected in Taiwan Horror Film, the Tag-Along Series.’ EAPCA II Conference, East Asian Popular Culture Association. (Hybrid)

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2020, June). ‘Exploring Childhood Cinema from Genre and Narrative Theory.’ 2020 Chinese Communication Society Annual Conference, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2019, November). ‘Representation of Childhood in China in the Post‑Millennium Era.’ 2019 Forum of Media Culture, Sichuan Foreign Language University, Chongqing, China.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2019, September). ‘Am I Watching Films? Young Movie‑Lovers’ Consumption Practices of Watching Streaming Movies.’ 2019 Taiwan Society of Anthropology and Ethnology Annual Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2019, June). ‘News Representation of Consumption Nationalism in Taiwan in the Post–New Cinema Period.’ 2019 Chinese Communication Society Annual Conference, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2019, May). ‘From Post‑Revolution to Post‑Anti‑Revolution: Revisiting Huang Jianxin’s Filmography from the Perspective of the Political Economy of Communication.’ 6th Student Film Forum, Fu Jen University, New Taipei, Taiwan.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2018, November). ‘Mythicizing the Isle of Dreams (Peng Lai): A Local Metaphor in Contemporary Taiwanese Drama.’ 2018 National Graduate Conference on Theatre Studies, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Lu, Jun-Wei. (2018, November). ‘Am I Watching Films? Movie‑Lovers’ Consumption Practices of Streaming Movies.’ 2018 UT–SNU–NCCU Joint Symposium, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Level 1 Screen Histories; Sociology; Introduction to Creative Practices; Mandarin (Chinese); Introduction to Creative Industries

Level 2 Cultural Analysis and Creative Practices 

Director of Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland since 2025