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She works from a cross-disciplinary angle, integrating socio-cultural perspectives into the teaching and research. Her current research interests focus at the impact of globalization in higher education systems and societies in Asia, for instance, international student migration, social development and human capital formation, educational organizations. Her work can be found in Asia Pacific Education Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, International Journal of Chinese Education etc.
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July 2013 - December 2014
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July 2009 - June 2015
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This study investigates career trajectory and work locations of doctoral students trained in Macao and analyses how their career paths are shaped by perceived macro-level factors. Respondents from four applied disciplinary areas were selected for semi-structured in-depth interviews. Research results show that doctoral students who graduated from Ma...
Since the launch of the One Belt and One Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, the internationalisation of China’s tertiary education has entered a new stage. Central to the BRI is investment and strategic planning for talent cultivation, knowledge production, and transmission. This paper explains how the BRI redirects, reinforces, and intensifies China’s...
This chapter introduces intra- Asian higher education mobility as a relatively new trend, which is an outcome of the dynamic economic changes occurring in East Asia, propelled by state policies towards higher education, and sustained by a strong interest among Asian youths to move overseas in search of education and a broader experience. While revi...
The quest to become research universities of international repute has led flagship universities in East and Southeast Asia to develop a new focus on attracting international doctoral students. This paper aims to understand Chinese doctoral students’ mobility in the immediate region and their education to work perceptions. The study draws from a sam...
This paper adopts a political economy perspective in understanding how the country context frames the development of higher education doctoral science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. We argue that a country’s commitment to research and development spending as a strategy to maintain its economic competitiveness creates the...
In the context of Asia, the changing dynamics of higher education has increased the visibility and significance of the group of intraregional education migrants. There are several methodological issues which need to be addressed in conducting research for this group of migrants. First, how does the particular type of migrant group and Asian context...
There is considerable evidence to suggest that the human capital needs of the world city differ from what Robinson calls “ordinary cities” or what Markusen and associates term as “second tier cities”. This path is blazed most notably in the field of world cities and the flow of skilled labour, in the work by Sassen and with case examples (finance,...
