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Senior’s Name: Shuangyu Li
Availability: 3/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

Pairing - Junior

Title: Reader in Clinical Communication & Cultural Competency, Director of King’s Cultural Competency Unit
Institution: King’s College London
Discipline: Communication studies
Years of experience: 16

Teacher/Training

Learners I work with:

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Continuous Professional Development

Interests/expertise:

  • Curriculum design / development
  • Experiential teaching methods (eg role play)
  • Educational research
  • Simulated patients
  • Train the trainers (faculty development)

Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 16

Research

Areas of work:

  • Curriculum development
  • Minorities / disadvantaged population
  • Medical education
  • Patient–provider relationship

Research methods:

  • Co-design
  • Microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue
  • Mixed methods
  • Observational studies
  • Participatory learning and action
  • Qualitative methods
  • Systematic literature review

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. Clinical communication, medical education, conversation analysis, language and cultural discordances

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Field of expertise:
Medical Education, qualitative research methods (esp, conversation analysis, ethnography), interdisciplinary leadership

Major Interests:
Clinical communication, cultural competency, languages and cultures, inequality in consultations

Consultation topics:
Triadic consultations between doctor, patient and interpreter
General practice

Biography/CV:

Dr Shuangyu Li is a dedicated educationist and researcher with over 15 years of experience in clinical communication and cultural competency in medicine and healthcare. He has played a significant role in driving forward cultural competency and diversity education in UK medical education. Dr Li has developed substantial modules and subjects in one of the largest medical schools in the UK and holds strategic leadership roles both at King’s College London and nationally. He is committed to enabling a collaborative, co-creative, and empowering approach to education and research.

As a trained conversation analyst, Dr Li researches clinical consultations with language and cultural discordances, especially interpreter-mediated medical consultations. He is interested in an interdisciplinary and multimodal approach to interactional analysis of diversity issues, particularly how inclusion and empowerment manifest in communication. Dr Li’s current research focuses on conceptualising and localising cultural competency.

See more at: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/shuangyu-li