· Employing metaphor to examine reflective learning of ESL writing, funded by National Social Science Foundation of China（国家社会科学基金青年项目）

· Metaphor and Reflective Writing, sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, China（教育部留学归国人员科研启动项目）

· Exploring reflective academic writing process through elicited metaphor-oriented intervention, sponsored by the Social Science Research Foundation of FuJian Province, China（福建省社科规划一般项目）

·Constructing learners’ writing knowledge through multimodal metaphor（福建省高校杰出青年科研人才培育计划项目）

· Developing critical thinking in academic writing through elicited metaphor-oriented activities, supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China（中央高校基本科研业务费专项）

· Developing theoretical framework of metaphor analysis in cognitive research on L2 writing, funded by Foundation for Distinguished Talents of Huaqiao University, China（华侨大学高层次人才科研启动项目）

· Metaphorical conceptualisations of ESL students' writing at postgraduate level, supported by the Specialised fund of high-level publications in humanities and social science disciplines, Huaqiao University（华侨大学高水平论文论著资助项目）

主要参与课题项目

· Visualizing variation in metonymies (PI: Dr. Weiwei, Zhang), funded by Humanity and Social Science Youth foundation of Ministry of Education of China（教育部人文社科青年项目，第一参与人）

· Skilled migration and global English: Language, development and the African professional (PI: Dr. Paul Roberts), funded by WUN (World Universities Network). The project aims to find out the extent to which the English language is an influencing factor in Skilled Migrants motivations, movements and success（国际大学联盟资助项目，特聘研究员）