Research Team
Prof. Joshua Mok Ka Ho
Co-Director, Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP); Vice-President and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Lingnan University; International Collaborator of the Centre for Global Higher EducationProfessor Ka Ho Mok is a renowned scholar in comparative policy and comparative higher education research. He conducted projects with UNICEF, World Bank, and Lumina Foundation. He organized professional and executive training programmes of higher education management for delegates from Asia, especially from China's leading universities like Peking University, Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University, and University of Nottingham Ningbo.
Prof. Deane Neubauer
Co-Director, Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP)Major research areas: higher education; quality and equity; knowledge society; university governance; international education.
Prof. Sheng Ju Chan
Professor of Higher Education, Graduate Institute of Education, National Chung Cheng UniversityMajor research areas: higher education policy, comparative education and higher education management.
Prof. Roger Dale
Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, University of BristolMajor research areas: globalisation, Europeanisation and the governance of education, education policy, critical policy methodology, international organisations, education systems, role of regional organisations and EU and education policy.
Prof. Andy Green
Professor of Comparative Social Science, University College LondonMajor research areas: education systems and social and economic outcomes in Western Europe and East Asia; comparative education policy.
Prof. John Hawkins
Major research areas: higher education reform and its politics; educational policy in comparative perspective.
Prof. Maggie Lau Ka Wai
Research Associate Professor, Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies and Division of Graduate Studies, Lingnan UniversityMajor research areas: poverty and social exclusion; child well-being; adolescent health behaviours; migration; poverty and education.
Prof. Simon Marginson
Professor of International Higher Education, University College London; Director of the Centre for Global Higher EducationProfessor Simon Marginson specializes primarily in higher education, and comparative and international education in the context of globalization. He is one of the world's most highly cited social science researchers in these fields. His major research areas also include higher education research in English-speaking countries, Russia and the Asia-Pacific; studies in the sociology, political economy, political philosophy and history of education.
Prof. Rajani Naidoo
Professor in Higher Education Management, University of BathMajor research areas: public sector markets and new public management; trans-national higher education and global governance; higher education and international development.
Prof. Eugenia Ng
Director of Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan UniversityMajor research areas: blended learning, e-learning, innovative teaching and learning strategies, teaching-research nexus.
Prof. Susan Robertson
Professor of Education, The Faculty of Education, University of CambridgeMajor research areas: global governance of education, transformations of the state and the new capitalism, knowledge and power, region-building and education, cultural political economy of education, social justice, teachers’ labour and spatial theory and education.
Prof. Jiang Jin
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Graduate Studies, Lingnan UniversityMajor research areas: educational inequality; social stratification; sociology of education; social policy.
Dr. Ye Liu
Lecturer in Sociology of Development, King's College LondonMajor research areas: education and development; gender and social policy; geographical inequality and development; and social mobility and stratification in developing countries.
Dr. Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus
Subject Leader in Undergraduate Psychology Programmes, Bath Spa UniversityMajor research areas: poverty and social exclusion and higher education
Dr Jiwei Qian
Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of SingaporeMajor research areas: health economics; development economics; social policy; higher education policy in China.
Prof. Vincent WEN Zhuoyi
Research Assistant Professor, Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies and Division of Graduate Studies, Lingnan UniversityMajor research areas: social welfare; social policy; higher education.
Dr XiONG Weiyan
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Graduate Studies, Lingnan UniversityMajor research areas: comparative, international and development education; higher education management; indigenous higher education; professional development in higher education.