Dr G. Qiao-Franco (Guangyu)

Artificial Intelligence|Cyber Security|China Studies| ASEAN Studies|Practice Theory |Norm Diffusion|International Organisations


Dr Guangyu (Karin) Qiao-Franco (BA&MA-FudanUni; PhD-UniMelb) is Assistant Professor of International Relations (tenured), Radboud University. Previously, she was a postdoc of the ERC-funded AutoNorms project at the Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark (2021-2023). She holds a PhD degree in international relations from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Guangyu has teaching experience through tutoring, leading seminars and lecturing at the University of Melbourne and Fudan University. She has taught various subjects, mainly in the areas of international relations, transnational crimes, Asian studies, and research methodologies.

Her research interests include practice theory, norm contestation, norm diffusion, international organisations, China studies, ASEAN regional governance, emerging technologies (especially AI and cyber security), and non-traditional security issues (such as climate change and human trafficking). Her recent work appears in International Affairs, The Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Chinese Journal of International Politics and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of the book UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (Edward Elgar, 2023).