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Rupert Till is Professor of Music in the Department of Music and Drama, having worked at the University of Huddersfield since 2002. He is also Associate Dean International in the School of Music, Humanities and Media, responsible for overseeing international development and recruitment. He has research interests in popular music and sound archaeology. 

Echo joined the university in July 2022 as our administrator,Her main role is to organise all courses,assist with activities,as well as general duties in the day-to-day life of the Confucius Institute.

Dr Wei Zhao is associate professor of linguistics in the Department of College English in School of Foreign Languages at the East China University of Science and Technology. Her research interests are second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and contrastive studies between English and Chinese. She will be working with the Confucius Institute as a Chinese teacher.