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Profiles
Dr Lijun Tang
Lecturer in International Shipping and Port Management
Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Lecturer in International Shipping and Port Management
Qualifications
PhD in Social Sciences, Cardiff University
MSc in International Maritime Studies, Southampton Solent University
BSc in Nautical Sciences, Shanghai Maritime University
Professional membership
Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
Member of Nautical InstituteMember of British Association of Chinese Studies
Teaching interests
Modules:
MAR207 Maritime Geography and Economics
MAR210 Maritime Management and Markets
MAR326 Port and Intermodalism
MAR705 Shipping Finance, Management and LaW
MAR706 Port Management and Policy
Research interests
Employment relations, Occupational health and safety, New technology in shipping, CSR and sustainability in the maritime industry
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Additive integer-valued data envelopment analysis with missing data: A multi-criteria evaluation approach' PLOS ONE 15, (6) e0234247-e0234247 , DOI Open access
2020 'Dynamics Simulation of the Risk Coupling Effect between Maritime Pilotage Human Factors under the HFACS Framework' Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8, (2) 144-144 , DOI Open access
2019 'Organisational support and safety management in shipping: A Study of shipboard safety supervision' The Economic and Labour Relations Review , DOI Open access
2019 'Global problems, local solutions: Unfree labour relations and seafarer employment with crewing agencies in China' Industrial Relations Journa 50, (3) 277-291 , DOI Open access
2019 'OHS Indicators and Under-reporting: Case Studies in Chinese Shipping' Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations 74, (1) 141-161 , DOI Open access
2019 'Technology introduction on ships: the tension between safety and economic rationality' Safety Science 115, 329-329 , DOI Open access
2019 '‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea' Work, Employment and Society , DOI Open access
2018 'The importance of customer expectations: An analysis of CSR in container shipping' Journal of Business Ethics , DOI Open access
2018 'Beyond the management-employee dyad: supply chain initiatives in shipping' Industrial Relations Journal 49, (3) 196-210 , DOI Open access
2018 'Decoupled implementation? Incident reporting in Chinese Shipping' Economic and Industrial Democracy 0, 0-0 , DOI Open access
2018 '“Positive energy”: Hegemonic intervention and online media discourse in China's Xi Jinping era' China: An International Journal 16, (1) 1-22 Publisher Site Open access
2017 'Improving training outcomes: the significance of motivation when learning about new shipboard technology' Journal of Vocational Education and Training , DOI Open access
2016 'Who is dominant? Occupational Health and Safety management in Chinese shipping' Journal of Industrial Relations 59, (1) 65-84 , DOI Open access
2016 'The reform of Chinese state-owned ship crewing agencies and implications for China’s seafaring labour export' Maritime Policy & Management 43, (6) 737-747 , DOI Open access
2015 'Strange things happen at sea: training and new technology in a multi-billion global industry' Journal of Education and Work 29, (8) 980-994 , DOI
2015 'Workers’ rights defence on China's internet: an analysis of actors' Information, Communication & Society 19, (8) 1171-1186 , DOI
2015 'Transformations and continuities of issues related to Chinese participation in the global seafarers’ labour market' Maritime Policy & Management 43, (3) 344-355 , DOI
2014 'Diaosi as infrapolitics: Scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural intimacy on China’s Internet' Media, Culture & Society 37, (2) 197-214
2014 'Trauma, post-trauma, and support in the shipping industry: The experience of Filipino seafarers after pirate attacks' Marine Policy 46, 132-136 , DOI
2013 'The politics of flies: mocking news in Chinese cyberspace' Chinese Journal of Communication 6, (4) 482-496 , DOI
2013 'Book Review: Sue Jervis, Relocation, Gender, and Emotion: A Psycho-Social Perspective on the Experiences of Military Wives' Qualitative Research 13, (3) 377-378 , DOI
2013 'The Role of Nationalism in the Olympics: Reflecting on the 2012 London Games' Sociological Research Online 18, (2) 113-117 , DOI
2013 'Middle managers' role in safeguarding OHS: The case of the shipping industry' Safety Science 51, (1) 63-68 , DOI
2012 'The interaction between mass media and the internet in non-democratic states: The case of China' Media, Culture & Society 34, (4) 457-471 , DOI
2012 'Fatigued for safety? Supply chain occupational health and safety initiatives in shipping' Economic and Industrial Democracy 34, (3) 382-398 , DOI
2012 '‘In the name of love’ Learning through online support' Convergence 18, (4) 465-472
2011 'Symbolic power and the internet: The power of a ‘horse’' Media, Culture & Society 33, (5) 675-691 , DOI
2011 'Power and Resistance: A Case Study of Satire on the Internet' Sociological Research Online 16, (2) Publisher Site , DOI
2011 'Power and Resistance: A Case Study of Satire on the Internet' SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE 16, (2) , DOI
2010 'DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE FRIENDSHIP IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL SPACES' Information, Communication & Society 13, (4) 615-633 , DOI
2010 'Empowering or Disempowering? Online Support among Seafarer-Partners' Sociological Research Online 15, (2) 53-64 , DOI
2009 'Shaping feelings in cyberspace: The case of Chinese seafarer-partners' Emotion, Space and Society 2, (2) 104-110 , DOI
'A Range Adjusted Measure of Super-efficiency in Integer-valued Data Envelopment Analysis with Undesirable Outputs' Journal of Systems Science and Information Open access
Books
2021 Human Resource Management in Shipping: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions. Routledge
Chapters
2020 'On-Line Support Groups for Families in China' in Gekara V; Sampson H The World of the Seafarers Spinger 189-198 Publisher Site
2017 'Costs and benefits of mobility: the case of Chinese seafarers' in Monios J; Wilmsmeier G Maritime Mobilities Routledge Open access
2012 'Online Friendship' in Yang Z Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior Hershey, Pennsylvania IGI Global 412-421
Conference Papers
2015 'The effectiveness of health and safety management in Chinese shipping: From the perspective of a shipmaster's Decision-making power' 757-762
Reports
2018 The working and living conditions of seafarers on cargo ships in the period 2011-2016. Publisher Site
2016 The relationships between seafarers and shore-side personnel: an outline report based on research undertaken in the period 2012-2016.
2016 The use of mandatory equipment on board cargo ships: An outline report based on research undertaken in the period 2012-2016.
2012 Seafarer accommodation on contemporary cargo ships.
2011 New shipboard technology and training provision for seafarers.