Research

Publications

Selected publications are organised by broad topics. You can also explore them by theme and output type, or search the catalogue.

Tertiary education systems, policy & society

Collaboration and competition in England’s tertiary education: an integrative review of three decades of research

Facilitating intergenerational social mobility through higher education: three challenges for policymakers

Reconceptualising the role of employers in England’s post-16 education and skills system: an initial analysis

Degrees of difference: international higher education and social mobility

Strengthening synergies: research, innovation and the future of tertiary education

Changing Higher Education in East Asia

‘The ensemble of diverse music’: internationalization strategies and endogenous agendas

HE in East Asia – different lenses for different times

Feeling the Brexit shock: European connectedness and the existential crisis in UK higher education

How far has the state ‘stepped back’: an exploratory study of the changing governance of higher education in China (1978–2018)

Investigating policy and implementation of English-medium instruction in higher education institutions in China

English medium higher education in China: challenges and ELT support

The incentivisation of English medium instruction in Chinese universities: policy misfires and misalignments

Study on the key competence and training system of academia-oriented doctoral students: based on the reflective construction of early-career academics from China and the UK

Research systems, assessment & cultures

Rethinking research-on-research in higher education studies

From evidence to engagement: how to bring research and policy closer together?

The gravity of the status quo: the response of research governance to system-level shocks

Handbook of Meta-Research

Meta-research as discipline, field, or spectrum

Research evaluation in China: policy, practice and prospects

The impacts of incentives for international publications on research cultures in Chinese humanities and social sciences

Incentivising international publications: institutional policymaking in Chinese higher education

Performing ‘under the baton of administrative power’? Chinese academics’ responses to incentives for international publications

Humanities and social sciences academics’ perceptions of incentive mechanism for international publications

The landscape of educational research in the UK (compulsory and post-compulsory)

Educational research in the United Kingdom, 2010–2020

Performance-based research funding

Academic internationalization and Chinese social sciences evaluation system: taking SSCI indicator as an example

Global research, knowledge & epistemic diversity

Hegemony and inequality in global science: problems of the center-periphery model

Epistemic diversity and cross-cultural comparative research: ontology, challenges, and outcomes

Moving beyond centre-periphery science: towards an ecology of knowledge

‘Thinking through the world’: a tianxia heuristic for higher education

Thinking through Tianxia: a new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education

Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on global research

The hunt for a coronavirus cure is showing how science can change for the better

Internationalisation of higher education and research

Rethinking internationalization of higher education under geopolitical shifts: policy responses in China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the U.S., and the U.K.

Internationalisation of higher education: what does it mean in the Chinese context?

The internationalization of Chinese social sciences research: publication, collaboration, and citation patterns in economics, education, and political science

Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature

Internationalization of Chinese humanities and social sciences

A policy trajectory analysis of the internationalisation of Chinese humanities and social sciences research (1978–2020)

China ‘goes out’ in a centre–periphery world: incentivizing international publications in the humanities and social sciences

What does the rise of Asia mean for global higher education?

International academic mobility & collaboration

Will China stay centre-stage for international research collaboration?

International academics in mainland China: what do we know and what do we need to know?

Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global knowledge system: towards a new research agenda

Big fishes in a big pond: a comparison between foreign and Chinese academics’ research influence in mainland China

Publications

Tertiary education systems, policy & society

Collaboration and competition in England’s tertiary education: an integrative review of three decades of research

Facilitating intergenerational social mobility through higher education: three challenges for policymakers

Reconceptualising the role of employers in England’s post-16 education and skills system: an initial analysis

Degrees of difference: international higher education and social mobility

Strengthening synergies: research, innovation and the future of tertiary education

Changing Higher Education in East Asia

‘The ensemble of diverse music’: internationalization strategies and endogenous agendas

HE in East Asia – different lenses for different times

Feeling the Brexit shock: European connectedness and the existential crisis in UK higher education

How far has the state ‘stepped back’: an exploratory study of the changing governance of higher education in China (1978–2018)

Investigating policy and implementation of English-medium instruction in higher education institutions in China

English medium higher education in China: challenges and ELT support

The incentivisation of English medium instruction in Chinese universities: policy misfires and misalignments

Study on the key competence and training system of academia-oriented doctoral students: based on the reflective construction of early-career academics from China and the UK

Research systems, assessment & cultures

Rethinking research-on-research in higher education studies

From evidence to engagement: how to bring research and policy closer together?

The gravity of the status quo: the response of research governance to system-level shocks

Handbook of Meta-Research

Meta-research as discipline, field, or spectrum

Research evaluation in China: policy, practice and prospects

The impacts of incentives for international publications on research cultures in Chinese humanities and social sciences

Incentivising international publications: institutional policymaking in Chinese higher education

Performing ‘under the baton of administrative power’? Chinese academics’ responses to incentives for international publications

Humanities and social sciences academics’ perceptions of incentive mechanism for international publications

The landscape of educational research in the UK (compulsory and post-compulsory)

Educational research in the United Kingdom, 2010–2020

Performance-based research funding

Academic internationalization and Chinese social sciences evaluation system: taking SSCI indicator as an example

Global research, knowledge & epistemic diversity

Hegemony and inequality in global science: problems of the center-periphery model

Epistemic diversity and cross-cultural comparative research: ontology, challenges, and outcomes

Moving beyond centre-periphery science: towards an ecology of knowledge

‘Thinking through the world’: a tianxia heuristic for higher education

Thinking through Tianxia: a new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education

Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on global research

The hunt for a coronavirus cure is showing how science can change for the better

Internationalisation of higher education and research

Rethinking internationalization of higher education under geopolitical shifts: policy responses in China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the U.S., and the U.K.

Internationalisation of higher education: what does it mean in the Chinese context?

The internationalization of Chinese social sciences research: publication, collaboration, and citation patterns in economics, education, and political science

Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature

Internationalization of Chinese humanities and social sciences

A policy trajectory analysis of the internationalisation of Chinese humanities and social sciences research (1978–2020)

China ‘goes out’ in a centre–periphery world: incentivizing international publications in the humanities and social sciences

What does the rise of Asia mean for global higher education?

International academic mobility & collaboration

Will China stay centre-stage for international research collaboration?

International academics in mainland China: what do we know and what do we need to know?

Reconceptualising international academic mobility in the global knowledge system: towards a new research agenda

Big fishes in a big pond: a comparison between foreign and Chinese academics’ research influence in mainland China

The golden guests? International faculty in mainland Chinese universities

Foreign academics in China

Inclusive teaching & learning

Neurodivergent Education for Students, Teaching & Learning (NESTL) Toolkit

A practical toolkit for supporting neurodivergent learners

Pronouncing students’ names correctly: the whys and hows