I regret that I am not currently taking on PhD students.

Research Interests

In 2024, I was awarded a Hong Kong GRF research grant to investigate discourses of diversity in Hong Kong universities.

Representative Publications

Freestone, P. (2024). The sociolinguistic navigation of sexual normativities among same-gender-attracted men in contemporary Chengdu, China. Gender and Language, 18(1), 28-47.

Freestone, P. (2023). Do “Chinese gays” come out? A discursive-sociocultural approach to queer visibility amongst same-gender-attracted men in Chengdu, China. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 12(2), 200-226.