Lihua Xia is a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh and serve as a supervisor for Master's students. She was selected for the Hubei and Wuhan Talent Projects and have led one National Social Science Fund project and one university-level independent innovation project. She also serves as a reviewer for journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, and as an evaluator for the Polish National Fund. In addition, she holds the position of Secretary-General for the Wuhan Psychological Counsellors Association.