Researchers at WREAC are currently working on the following projects:

• Memory in East Asia
• Ruptured Pasts, Uncertain Futures - led by Dr Marjorie Dryburgh (Sheffield)
• EastAsiaNet collaboration on Memory - led by Professor Glenn Hook (Sheffield)
• Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy
• Informal Political Actors in East Asia, Russia and the Arab World - led by Professor Hugo Dobson (Sheffield)
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office Knowledge Exchange activities - led by Professor Glenn Hook (Sheffield) and Professor Hugo Dobson (Sheffield)
• East Asian Soft Power Postgraduate Conference - led by Professor Caroline Rose (Leeds)
• Staging China - led by Dr Ruru Li (Leeds) and Susan Daniels (Leeds)
• Teaching Chinese as a Second Language - led by Dr Yang Lan (Leeds) and Dr Lily Chen (Sheffield)
• Transitions Japanese - led by Miyuki Nagai (Sheffield), Professor Glenn Hook (Sheffield) and Yuka Oeda (Leeds)
• Writing Chinese: authors, authorship and authority in China - led by Dr Frances Weightman (Leeds)

Cross-LBAS collaboration includes:

• Sacred Models: Religious Authority and Representation in Asian Religions - Collaboration between WREAC and BICC, led by Dr Jane Caple (Manchester) and Dr Erica Baffelli (Manchester)
  
• Heritage and Cultural Memory network - Collaboration between WREAC and CASAW, led by Dr Marjorie Dryburgh (Sheffield) and Professor Caroline Rose (Leeds)
• Postgraduate Research Conference - All LBAS centres, led by CEELBAS
• Research Methods and Ethics Postgraduate Workshop - All LBAS centres, led by CRCEES
• LBAS Language Conference - All LBAS centres, led by CRCEES
• Conceptualising Area Studies Conference - All LBAS centres, led by CEELBAS