Dr. Lixian Jin is Chair Professor in Applied Linguistics and Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at City University of Macao, after having being the Head of School of English at University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Chair Professor in Linguistics and Intercultural Learning, supervised PhD students, trained speech and language therapy students, led a research centre at a British university for 23 years. She has taught linguistics, English language teaching, intercultural communication, qualitative research methods and clinical linguistics and assessments; and led international research teams in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia and China. She has conducted many school and university English teacher training and workshops over the past 20 years in China and worldwide; and to healthcare professionals on intercultural communication in the UK invited by the Royal Colleges of Speech and Language Therapists, Surgeons, Nursing, Midwives, British Council, CRRC, etc.. Her over 200 publications focus on researching cultures of learning, intercultural communication, metaphor and narrative analysis and bilingual clinical assessments.