Our Staff

Prof. Junjun Chen is a Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. Dr. Chen studied in Mainland China, Holland and New Zealand. Before joining the EdUHK, she worked at the universities in Mainland China and New Zealand. Her research has focused on principal and teacher development, well-being and resilience, systematic literature review, psychometric measurement, and how these have contributed to school effectiveness. She is willing to enlarge her research interest to advance the work of the EdUHK by cooperating with colleagues. This opportunity to work at EdUHK has made her feel very privileged indeed.

Research Interests

Teacher development, well-being, and resilience

Principal development, well-being, and resilience

Systematic literature review 

Psychometric measurement 

Dr. Gao Fang is Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. She did her undergraduate studies and initial professional education at Shenyang University in China. She has a Master degree in Educational Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and she completed PhD in the Sociology of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She has published widely in the fields.

Research Interests

Sociology of Education

Minority Education

Higher Educationility

International Student Mobility

Ewan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. He holds a PhD from the Division of Policy, Administration and Social Sciences Education at The University of Hong Kong where he was a recipient of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. His main research interests are in educational trends and reforms across East Asia. As a sociologist of education, his current research focuses on international education (especially the International Baccalaureate), globalisation and education, university preparation and admission, and inequality in education and social reproduction. He has completed two large-scale International Baccalaureate research projects including “A study of the International Baccalaureate Diploma in China: Program's impact on student preparation for university studies abroad” and “A study of the post-secondary outcomes of IB Diploma alumni in leading universities in Asia Pacific”. His research has been published in international journals such as British Journal of Educational Studies and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Research Interests

International Schools

International Baccalaureate

Globalisation and education

University preparation and admission

Inequality in education and social reproduction

Dr. Lee Trevor Tsz-lok is an Associate Professor in Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Dr. Lee is a sociologist working on the field of education, particularly inequality and stratification, parenting, and policy. Before joining EdUHK, Dr. Lee was an adjunct assistant professor in Department of Sociology and a postdoctoral fellow in Faculty of Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research is often located at the intersections of traditional research agenda in sociology and educational studies, among other (sub-) fields, and involves quantitative and qualitative methodologies. His work has been published in Educational Review, Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, Current Sociology, and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, among others. Dr. Lee serves on the Editorial Board of Current Sociology, the official journal of the International Sociological Association.

His recent research projects address questions concerning (1) the intricate ways that interrelationships between home, school and culture shape and reproduce social positions in the stratification system; (2) the middle-class alternative choice of homeschooling in Hong Kong and Taipei; and (3) online learning of Hong Kong primary school students during school closures in time of COVID-19. His future research agenda attends to digital inequality through family socialization and parent leadership among disadvantaged families.

Research Interests

Stratification

Parenting

Policy

Euan Auld is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He holds a doctorate in Comparative and International Education & Policy Studies from the UCL Institute of Education, London (UK). His research has investigated the history and contemporary dynamics of global governance and education policy, focusing on international organisations, global agendas and the integration of international large-scale assessments into processes of education reform. He is currently engaged in research projects that explore activism and student movements across space and time, the emergence and influence of disruptive technologies and actors in global education policy, and critical and speculative engagement with possible futures of societies and education. His research is interdisciplinary, with particular interest in the enduring role of narratives in policy, activism and reimagining futures, drawing on disciplinary insights from comparative philosophy, philosophical anthropology, political science and science and technology studies.

Research Interests

Comparative and international education 

Global governance and education policy

Education futures

Global studies in education

Student engagement and activism

Dr Miron Bhowmik is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), and was previously the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist at the Faculty of Education and Human Development and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Special Education and Counselling. Prior to joining EdUHK, he was a Programme Officer at the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok, Thailand. He has also worked for the British Council and several universities in Bangladesh. He is particularly interested in the educational policies and practices as they relate to diversity, equity and inclusion. 

Research Interests

Diversity, equity and inclusion in education

‘Out of school’/dropout/school failure issues

Ethnic minority education

Inclusive leadership

Critical discourse

ICT in education

Acculturative stress and coping behaviour

Prof. Yuzhuo Cai is a Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership and Co-Director of the Global Research Institute for Finnish Education at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He has studied in Mainland China, Norway, and Finland. Before joining EdUHK, he spent over two decades at the Higher Education Group, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland, undertaking various roles, including Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Research Director, and Acting Professor. He is currently an editor for the Journal of Studies in International Education, Triple Helix, and the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. His research is internationally recognised in areas such as institutional theory analysis of higher education, the internationalisation of higher education, the Triple Helix model of innovation, universities' engagement in innovation ecosystems, and graduate employability. Ranked among Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists in Education, Prof. Cai has significantly advanced the field through over 150 impactful academic publications and his leadership as Principal Investigator of the Horizon Europe project NEXT-UP, which secured a 2.9 million euro grant.
 

Research Interests:

Higher education policy and management

Institutional theory

Comparative and Finnish Education

Internationalisation of higher education

Triple Helix model of innovation

Universities’ societal engagement

Graduate employability

Cheng Tak Lai, Mic, is a Lecturer I in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). His main research interests include life and values education, experiential learning, and reflective practice, with a primary focus on how participants’ values and beliefs transform during the learning experience from both philosophical and empirical perspectives. In the recent past, he has also concentrated on academic practices in higher education, particularly the implementation of short-term overseas study tours.

He graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a B.A. in Social Work. He earned a PGDE in Professional and Vocational Education (with distinction) and a M.Ed in Life and Spirituality Education from EdUHK. Additionally, he also holds a PGCert in Academic Practice from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D in Higher Education (Research, Evaluation, and Enhancement) from Lancaster University (LU) in the UK.

He served as a social worker for the Salvation Army from 2007 to 2009, providing support to young night drifters. The following year, he began his teaching journey at Caritas Community and Higher Education Service, focusing on Project YiJin. He had then worked for the Vocational Training Council (VTC) for 8 years, developing and lecturing on post-secondary programmes —ranging from certificate to undergraduate levels—in the areas of community services and child education, offered by the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, the University of Hull, and the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Before joining the department in 2022, he also served at the Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education at EdUHK for 6 years, where he was responsible for educational projects and general education courses focused on life and values education. Currently, he coordinates and teaches subjects in life and values education, professional and vocational education, and education studies (in the related discipline of philosophical and sociocultural issues in education).

Dr. Cheng is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Member of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation at LU in the UK. He is also a Registered Teacher (RT) with the Education Bureau and a Registered Social Worker (RSW) with the Social Workers Registration Board in HK. He had received the Life Education Personal Excellence Award from the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation in 2016. He was also honored with teaching awards from the department and faculty in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Research Interests

Experiential learning

Life and values education

Reflective practices

Vocational education and training

Choi Soobin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri. His primary research interests include educational leadership, school organization, and policy analysis, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. His research examines how school leaders prepare educators to teach a diverse student body in a culturally responsive manner. Additionally, his work explores the role of school leaders in creating an inclusive and culturally responsive school climate, emphasizing school capacity building and the development of global citizenship among school members. By employing critical quantitative approaches and utilizing data from large-scale international and national assessments, his research provides valuable insights into the role of school leaders in promoting cultural diversity and equity in schools.  His scholarly work has been published in high-impact journals, including Educational Administration Quarterly, AERA Open, and Teaching and Teacher Education.
 

Research Interests

Educational leadership

School organization

Policy analysis

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Mr Chong joined The Education University of Hong Kong in 2007.

He received his Bachelor’s degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Government and Public Administration. He earned his Master of Law degree at the University of Hong Kong. 

After admitting as a solicitor in 2000, Mr Chong handled various significant human rights cases. They included defamation - Albert Cheng v Paul Tse; right of assembly- HKSAR v Leung Kwok Hung; and family violence -the Tin Shui Wai tragedy of 2004.

From 2002, Mr. Chong began conducting seminars on education law.

At EdUHK, he teaches “Education and Law” and “Rule of Law and HK Legal System”. He is also active in the promotion of the right to legal education.

In recognition of his outstanding voluntary legal service to the public and educational sector, Mr Chong was bestowed with numerous awards including the Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award, Distinguished Community Service Award, and Bauhinia the Leadership Volunteer Award.

Research Interests

Education law

Human rights

Human rights education

Rule of law

Rule of law education

Dr. Gumus is a lecturer at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL). She got her master’s degree in Educational Management, Planning, and Supervision from Gazi University, Turkiye. Dr. Gumus also holds a second master’s degree in Educational Administration from Michigan State University, USA, and PhD degree in Educational Administration, from Ataturk University, Turkiye. Dr. Gumus was an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at Maltepe University, Turkiye before she started at EdUHK. Dr. Gumus worked as a postdoc in the Department of Educational Sociology/National Centre for School Research (NCS) at Aarhus University, Denmark between August 2019 and June 2021. Besides, she worked as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at Necmettin Erbakan University (NEU), Turkiye between 2015 and 2020. In addition, Dr. Gumus held a Visiting Scholar position in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia, USA between June 2015 and June 2016.

Dr. Gumus has several published articles in international peer-reviewed journals as well as book chapters. Her articles have appeared in well-known international journals such as Educational Management, Administration, and Leadership (EMAL), European Journal of Teacher Education, International Journal of Inclusive Education, School Leadership & Management, International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, Educational Studies, and Cogent Education.

Her research interests are leadership, professional development of both school principals and teachers, mentorship process of principals and teachers, and multicultural education.

Prof. Gümüş is a Professor at the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership and a Research Fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change at the EdUHK. Before moving to Hong Kong, he was an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published articles in core international journals of the field such as Educational Management Administration and Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Journal of Educational Administration, and School Management & Leadership as well as in other high impact journals such as Compare, European Journal of Education, Educational Studies, Higher Education, Scientometrics, and Teaching and Teacher Education. He currently serves on the advisory board of Rowman & Littlefield School Leadership Book Series, as well as undertakes editorial responsibilities in several academic journals.

Prof. Gümüş defines himself first and foremost as a teacher. He worked around 2.5 years as a math teacher in Turkey before he moved to the USA for his graduate education in 2007. He received his PhD from the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State University, USA in 2012 and his master’s from the same institution in 2010. He was nationally selected for the David L. Clark Graduate Student Research Seminar sponsored by University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) and later became a founding member of the UCEA Graduate Student Council.

Research Interests:

Instructional leadership

Leadership development

Professional learning

Work attitudes

Equity in education

Systematic reviews

Quantitative research

Xiao HAN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. She earned her B.A. (Economics) from Jilin University and Ph.D (Education) from the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research is trans-disciplinary-based, focusing on critical policy analysis, international/transnational higher education, and Foucault/Bourdieu studies. Her works have been published in Journal of Education Policy, Higher Education, Policy and Society, and etc.

Xiao HAN’s current work concentrates on the clarification and articulation of concepts/theories including the segmented labor market, the rational choice hypothesis, the new materialism and the usage of ideology/discourse in critical studies, empirically now to examine the issue of graduate employment.

She serves as the reviewer for a number of international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Education Policy, Higher Education, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, and Asia Pacific Journal of Education.

Research Interests

Critical Policy Analysis

International/Transnational Higher Education

Foucault and Bourdieu Studies

Maxwell is an experienced educator who has dedicated himself to promoting teacher entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurship education, and financial literacy throughout his career. He earned a Bachelor of Education (Business Studies) degree with first-class honours from the Education University of Hong Kong in 2008, following which he rose through the ranks quickly to become head of technology education (KLA) and administration group as a middle manager. His finance and entrepreneurial curriculum won him the Teacher award for business and financial education in 2016, a recognition from the HKABE, HKEdCity, EDB, and IFEC.

Maxwell continues to contribute to the field of education since joining EdUHK. As a Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, he has performed leadership and educational practice research. In 2020, he was awarded the Emerald publishing award for his excellent doctoral research and is now invited to provide leadership training to primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. He has also been named President of the Hong Kong Association of Business Education, demonstrating his continued commitment to the growth of this sector. Maxwell's teacher entrepreneurialism series has trained over 400 school leaders so far.

In 2021, Maxwell received the Emerald Young Researcher Award for his exceptional contribution to education in Hong Kong, validating his continued research interests in teacher entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurship education, and financial literacy. His efforts were further acknowledged by the Michael Fullan Emerging Scholar award in 2023.

Research interests

Middle leadership

Teacher professional development

Entrepreneurial behaviour

Business and personal financial education

Entrepreneurship education

Dr Percy Kwok is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) in the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). After earning his PhD in 2001, Dr Kwok worked as a senior research assistant and a course tutor at the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) in the Faculty of Education in the University of Hong Kong when joining the interim evaluation project of the First Strategy on IT in Education: Information Technology for Learning in a New Era Five-year Strategy 1998/99 to 2002/03 for the HKSAR government. In 1998-2002, he served several international and local comparative education societies such as the webmaster of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) and a coopted member of Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK). He founded the postgraduate research student committee in Faculty of Education in the University of Hong Kong in 1998 and formed a global network of young scholars in comparative and international education and research methodology in 2000s. As an international research consultant, he joined and led some ADB and UNESCO research projects in ICT education and teacher e-leadership in 2000s.

Dr Kwok has extensive experiences in teaching Adv. Dip. Ed., B. Ed., M.Ed., M.Sc. and Ed.D. in several key universities in Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China and United States of America. Before returning to the teacher education field, he had been engaged in leading one innovative continuing education school for three years and coordinating the IBDP-TOK curricula and chairing the educational self-evaluation team in one through-train IB DSS school for fourteen years. He has been IBDP-examiners of some key subjects in Asia-Pacific rim and an External Reviewer (ER) of External School Review (ESR) under Education Bureau for primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. Dr Kwok has great research interests in investigating the changing contexts of private supplementary tutoring, self-evaluation mechanisms in schools through action research, ICT integration into school curricula and successful educational leadership and principalship models in basic education in comparative and international perspectives. Noteworthy, he built some innovative inter-regional, inter-school and inter-discipline collaborative e-learning communities among students and teachers in primary and secondary education in Hong Kong, Macao, Mainland China, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States of America in 2000s. Dr Kwok earned the world reputation of Outstanding persons in Marquis Who’s Who in Finance and Industry (34th ed., 2004-2005) and Marquis Who’s Who in the World (23th ed., 2006) for establishing and sustaining such communities in the world.   

Research Interests

Collaborative learning communities  

Comparative and international education

Policy analysis in education  

Private supplementary tutoring in basic education  

Project-based learning and electronic portfolio in ICT education  

Research paradigms and research methodology  

School principalship and educational leadership  

Social cartography in educational and social research  

Teacher professional development through action research 

Dr. Chrysa Keung has worked in various school development projects which across different educational settings. She received her PhD in Education, Administration and Policy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been a Graduate Teacher in secondary school, Teaching Associate in HKUST and Postdoctoral Fellow in CUHK. Dr. Keung has her expertise in educational inequality, parental involvement and teacher development. In recent years, she engages in the early childhood studies, with a focus on the areas of leadership practices, play-based learning and positive education. Her research has spanned the fields of education, social psychology and sociology of education, with an interest in using large-scale data to investigate educational transitions and pathways.

Research Interest

Educational inequality

Sociology of education

Early childhood education

Play-based learning

Child and family studies

Dr Lam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is responsible for pioneering work on philosophy for children in Hong Kong and has presented his findings in invited lectures both at home and abroad.

Dr Lam publishes in the fields of the philosophy of Karl Popper, critical thinking, Confucianism, and philosophy for children. His books include Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society: Implications for Education in Confucian Heritage Cultures (Springer, 2013), Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (co-edited with Jae Park, Springer, 2016), Philosophy for Children in Confucian Societies: In Theory and Practice (edited, Routledge, 2020), and Confucianism: An Approach to Education for Morality and Rationality (Brill, 2025). He serves on the Board of Editorial Consultants for the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, on the Editorial Board of the Educational Philosophy and Theory for the annual special issue on Chinese Philosophy of Education, on the Advisory Board of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, and on the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Subject Committee for Ethics and Religious Studies.

Dr Lam was educated at the University of Hong Kong, where he obtained a First-Class Honours degree in Education and a PhD in philosophy of education. He worked as a secondary school teacher for two decades in Hong Kong, heading the Integrated Science Department and the Guidance and Counselling Team at the Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club College before taking up his current position at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Research Interests

Philosophy of Karl Popper

Philosophy for Children

Critical Thinking

Confucianism

Martin is a lecturer in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He received his Bachelor of Education (Majoring in Business Studies) at EdUHK, Master of Education (Majoring in Child and Adolescent Development) at HKBU and Master of Arts (Majoring in Christian Studies) at CUHK. He taught Business-related subjects, Biblical Knowledge and Life Education in secondary school for over 10 years before joining EdUHK. 

Being the Subject Coordinator, KLA Coordinator and Career and Guidance Coordinator in Secondary School, he has extensive experience facilitating students’ development and broadening their exposure beyond the classroom with positive values. He was invited to different teachers’ sharing on topics like business education and value education. He was awarded twice in the Teacher Award for Business, and Financial Education (2017 & 2019), organised by the EDB, HKABE, IFEC and HKEdCity, in recognition of his school-based curriculum development and leadership. 

He has served as the executive committee of the Hong Kong Association of Business Education to promote business education and has been invited to share on entrepreneurship in schools.

Research Interests

Teacher Professionalism

Students’ Wellbeing

Business and Personal Financial Education

Lam Tin Miu (Giselle) is a Lecturer II in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at The Education University of Hong Kong. She teaches courses on education in international and global contexts, life and value education, and educational leadership.

Giselle holds a double degree in Education and Science from the University of Hong Kong, where she also earned a Master of Education with a focus on developing classroom dialogue in science teaching and learning. In addition, she obtained an International Baccalaureate Advanced Certificate in Teaching and Learning Research in 2020. Giselle furthered her studies at the University of Cambridge, completing a Master of Philosophy in Psychology and Education, with research centered on cognitive psychology in STEM learning. She is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS).

With experience teaching science at both primary and secondary levels across Hong Kong, Thailand, and Australia, Giselle brings a diverse and international perspective to her work. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Education at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include teaching and learning in international contexts, curriculum studies, teacher professional development, and psychology in education.

Research Interests

International education and development

Curriculum and instruction

Teaching and learning of science

STEM education

Theodore is used to be a secondary school teacher for 10 years before leaving for New Zealand to complete his higher degree in education.  He obtained a Master of Educational Leadership (First Honours) and his PhD from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.   

Research Interests

Teacher development and leadership

Inquiry learning

Assessment for learning.

Dr. Leung Wing Tat worked as a secondary school teacher for more than 27 years. During this long period of service in the secondary school setting, he made particular efforts in his post to enhance civic education and experiential learning for the young generation. Meanwhile, he completed several postgraduate programmes, including MPhil in Chinese Language and Literature, MA in Religious Studies and MSocSc in General Education. With this academic scope, he has a conviction to foster and facilitate youngsters’ learning in humanities and cross-disciplinary studies, so to broaden their outlook and develop their holistic worldview.

He earned his EdD degree in 2020. Through his doctoral studies, with reflection on teaching as a vocation, he felt the calling to expand his mission to the field of teacher education. Thus, he joined the teaching staff of the University in January 2022, aspiring to share his frontline experience and academic insights with prospective and in-service teachers of the new generation.

Research Interest:

Critical pedagogy

Civic education

Experiential learning

School-community partnership

Democratization of schools

Teacher professionalism and agency

Leung Yuk Tin, Yvette is a Lecturer I in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is responsible for teaching courses related to global educational reforms and development, histories of modernization and education development, as well as those in relation to philosophical and sociocultural issues in education.

Yvette holds an M.A. specializing in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include comparative education and shadow education. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Yvette is experienced with Hong Kong's education within and outside the system. Internationally, Yvette worked for UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) before, supporting the Institutes' work in advancing the field of lifelong learning and adult learning towards achieving the sustainable Development Goals 4.0 among member states. Prior to joining the University, she worked in two local education NGOs in Hong Kong to foster character education and innovations in schools, and later worked as a secondary school teacher putting theories and innovations into practice. 

Currently, Yvette is an active member of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and serves as a peer reviewer for The International Journal of Comparative Education and Development (IJCED) and is committed to scholarship that bridges academic inquiry with real-world education issues.

Research Interests

Privatization of education (shadow education, social inequality issues in education)

Parental involvement in schools

Comparative and international education and development

Jason Cong LIN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD from the University of Hong Kong, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of National Education in Hong Kong in the New Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), and Multiculturalism, Chinese Identity, and Education: Who Are We? (Routledge, 2022). His edited books include Ethnic Minorities: Cultural Perspectives, Stereotypes and Social Challenges (Nova, 2025), and Encyclopedia of Teacher Education (Springer, 2019). His research has been published in well-regarded journals, such as Daedalus, Journal of Contemporary China, Globalisation, Societies and Education, and Asia Pacific Education Review.

Jason’s research has received grants and awards from governments and institutions around the world. These include the Spencer Foundation, Institute of International Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Henry Luce Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Fulbright Scholarship program, Association for Moral Education, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Comparative & International Education Society, Korean Association for Multicultural Education, the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and the Ministry of Education. His works focus on incorporating intercultural knowledge, skills, and values in education; providing minority and Global South perspectives on educational issues; and working with schools and policy-makers to improve education for all students. His works have been presented at prestigious institutions, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, and UCL.

Jason is the secretary/treasurer of the AERA Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education SIG, an Editor of the Local/Global Issues in Education (the Australian Association for Research in Education book series, published by Routledge), a Regional Editor of the Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies, an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Education and Cogent Social Sciences, an Assistant Editor of the Brill Research Perspectives in Philosophy of Education Series, and an Advisory Editor of The Social Educator. He is also on the editorial board for British Educational Research Journal, Compare, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Multicultural Education Review, and The Curriculum Journal. 

Research Interests

Philosophy of education
Civic/moral/multicultural education
Politics of education

Comparative and international education
China and Hong Kong studies

LU Jiafang earned her PhD in Applied Psychology from Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership (EPL) and Associate Director (Change Research and Development Programmes) for the Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Center for Leadership and Change (APCLC), The Education University of Hong Kong. She is fascinated with studying emerging phenomena in school leadership teams, leadership development, as well as factors enabling teacher collaboration and innovation. Her research projects have been funded by highly competitive grant schemes such as Early Career Scheme and General Research Fund of the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. She shares her interest with similar enthusiasm for translating knowledge in these areas into leadership development and school improvement.
 

Research Interests

School leadership teams

Teacher innovation

Teacher collaboration

Simulation-based training

Work-life role interaction

Dr Jiahui Luo (Jess) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, the Education University of Hong Kong. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong as a recipient of the Philip KH Wong Foundation Postgraduate Fellowship. Prior to that, she completed her MPhil at the University of Cambridge as a fully funded International Cambridge Trust Scholar and earned her BA from Sun Yat-sen University with first-class honours.

As an academic, Jess studies the social, relational and ethical implications of advanced technologies (in particular, GenAI) on educational assessment, as well as the governance/regulation of these technologies through education policies at different levels (in particular, higher education). Her research has been published in high-impact international journals such as Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Educational Research Review, and Teaching in Higher Education. In recognition of her research performance, Jess was awarded the 2023 HKU Foundation Publication Award (RPG). She is also the Principal Investigator of several external and internal research grants on GenAI and higher education, including one funded by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council under the prestigious Early Career Scheme.

In addition to research, Jess is passionate about enhancing teaching and learning in higher education. She is experienced in developing teaching and learning resources/programmes for university teachers and students and has served as the facilitator, mentor, and panel moderator for multiple high-profile educational events and forums. Prior to joining EdUHK, Jess was a research member of the Teaching and Learning Enhancement and Research Group (TLERG) and the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) at the University of Hong Kong.

Research Interests

Implications of advanced technologies (e.g., GenAI) on education (esp. higher education, educational assessment)

Formal and informal governance of technologies in education

Education policies on assessment

Educational assessment in the digital age

Prof. Bruce Macfarlane is Chair Professor of Educational Leadership and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is a former Head of the School of Education at the University of Bristol, and a former Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He has held visiting professorial positions in Australia, Japan, South Africa and Sweden.

Prof. Macfarlane is a social philosopher of higher education who has developed conceptual frameworks for interpreting academic practice, ethics, and leadership. Applying a mix of empirical and philosophical enquiry, he has helped to define key concepts including academic integrity, academic citizenship, intellectual leadership, and student performativity.

His research focuses on the micro or individual level but is framed by the way academic identity is being re-shaped by the changing conditions affecting university life. His major works include Freedom to Learn (2016), Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education (2012), Researching with Integrity (2009), The Academic Citizen (2007) and Teaching with Integrity (2004).
 

Research Interests

Higher education

Educational leadership

Academic freedom

Academic ethics

Academic identity

Dr Yusuf Oldac is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at The Education University of Hong Kong and a Fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies in Hong Kong. He also recently held a Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

Dr Oldac’s research spans international and comparative higher education, with a current focus on global science and knowledge production in university settings. His research has a particular emphasis on epistemic equity and justice, exploring how knowledge is produced, shared, and valued across diverse cultural and institutional landscapes.

His scholarship has been published in leading academic journals, including Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Scientometrics, Educational Management Administration & Leadership, and the British Journal of Educational Studies. In recognition of his contributions, he has received several prestigious awards, such as the Research and Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award from Hong Kong Lingnan University (2023) and the Newer Researchers Prize from the Society for Research into Higher Education, UK (2022). Dr Oldac also contributes to the academic community as Associate Editor of the Journal Higher Education Evaluation and Development and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.

Research Interest:

• Global higher education

• Comparative and International Education

• Higher education policy

• Knowledge production

• International Collaboration

• Science Policy

Prof. Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko is Professor of International Higher Education and Acting Head of the EPL Department. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the EdUHK's Academy of Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures. He holds a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, where he managed and investigated university-wide strategic international partnerships. In 2009, Anatoly joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and taught in higher education policy studies and educational leadership. In 2010, he launched Hong Kong's first-of-its-kind Master of Education in Higher Education. In 2022, upon moving to EdUHK, he co-founded the Master of Arts in Global Higher Education. Anatoly's research focuses on the challenges of globalisation in higher education and the transformations of universities in the 21st century. His publications address the dilemmas of agency of internationalization in higher education, the complexity of governance, and the ethics of leadership in neoliberal universities. He is a leading scholar on the challenges of organizational change in post-soviet higher education. His publications received awards from the Comparative and International Education Society in the USA (2016 – best article award from Higher Education SIG; 2019 – best book award from the SIG International Students and Study Abroad; and 2024 – best research paper award from the SIG Europe and Central Asia). 

Research Interests

Higher Education Policy Studies

Academic Leadership and Governance

Academic Agency

Freedom and Responsibilities

World-class Universities

International Research Collaborations

Internationalization

Post-soviet transformations

Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. Before moving to Hong Kong, he was an Assistant Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Prior to becoming an academic, Adam worked as an English teacher in various international schools in Shanghai. As a research bricoleur, Adam focuses on a number of research interests, including international schools in China, teachers in international schools, professional development for language teachers, working-class academics, and the funds of identity approach. Adam has published in international journals including Educational Review, Journal of Education for Teaching, and Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Research Interests

International schools

Teachers’ lived experiences

Teacher professional development/teacher research

Social class and social inequality

Funds of identity/knowledge

Poon Yu-Hin is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership of The Eduation University of Hong Kong. He taught Liberal Studies, Ethics and Religious Studies in secondary school for about 12 years, and he has been actively engaged in educational research in the past 10 years.

Research interests

Sociology of education

Educational policy and equality

Identity studies

School ethnography

Ezechiel Thibaud is a Lecturer I in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Trained as a philosopher as well as a language teacher, she has experience in teaching various disciplines (philosophy, French, literature, politics…) in various countries and institutions (universities, international schools).

Her international experience (having worked in the USA, China & Hong Kong, India, Burundi) gave her a deep insight into sociocultural issues in education, as well as into the various ways concepts such as the meaning of life, morality, or happiness are approached. She is particularly interested in making philosophical concepts accessible to large audiences, through the use of innovative pedagogical tools.

Her philosophical research focuses on moral and political philosophy, with an emphasis on the concepts of autonomy, modern conceptions of virtue, and the ethics of technology.

Research Interests

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Political Philosophy

History of Philosophy

Critical Thinking

Pedagogy & Philosophy

Dr. Kwok Kuen Tsang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Before joining the EdUHK, Dr. Tsang was an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Education Administration at Beijing Normal University, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an Assistant Professor at Caritas Institute of Higher Education, respectively. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education and an Associate Editor of the Beijing International Review of Education. His research covers teachers' work and emotions, education policy and governance, and school leadership.

Research Interests

Teachers' work

Teachers' emotions

Education governance

School leadership

Dr. Wang Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. She earned her PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Before joining EdUHK, she was a postdoctoral fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research centers on four interconnected areas that address pressing educational needs in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, including school effectiveness and improvement; teacher agency, leadership and professional development; teacher emotions and well-being; and GenAI in teacher learning and school-based research.

Chan’s research has been published in high-impact international journals, such as Computers & Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Studies in Educational Evaluation, Professional Development in Education, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and International Journal of Educational Management. Notably, she won the AERA Best Paper Award in 2025 (https://www.aera.net/SIG151/TACTL-Awards; https://www.aera.net/SIG151/Message-from-TACTL-Chair). She welcomes opportunities for collaboration to promote educational leadership, school improvement, and teacher professional development, especially through innovative solutions for contemporary educational challenges.

Research Interests:

• School effectiveness and improvement
• Teacher agency, leadership, and professional development
• Teacher emotions and well-being
• GenAI in teacher learning and school-based research

Dr. Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership.  She earned her B.A. (communication) and M.Ed (educational leadership and foundations) from the Brigham Young University, Utah, USA, and Ph.D. (Education) from The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.  Following her Ph.D., she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Education University of Hong Kong.  Dr. Wong has participated in various research projects over the past ten years (such as Participatory Citizenship, Applied Learning, Curriculum Reform, Work-Based Learning) and has been involved in international projects (such as research undertaken on a UNESCO project on out of school children, comparison of higher education study for Asia-Pacific region students, teacher preparation programs in Mainland, China).  Her work has been recognised by EdUHK through publication awards.  She has served as a reviewer of international and local academic journals. 

Research Interests

Diversity and Minority Education

Refugee Education 

Teacher Education

Citizenship Education

Moral and Servant Leadership 

Teacher Leadership

Mr. WONG Wai-Hung is currently a Lecturer of the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership of The Education University of Hong Kong. Before joining the HKIED in 2001, he taught General Education courses in Hong Kong Lingnan University. WONG had been a secondary school teacher for over 10 years. He got his MA in Sociology of Culture from the University of Essex in 1993, his MA in Chinese philosophy from the New Asia Institute for Advanced Chinese Studies in 1995, and his PCEd from the Hong Kong University in 1998. WONG is also a sexologist, a psycho-therapist, a school manager, and a film critic. WONG has published 10 books on philosophy, psychology and in some other areas. He always appeared in Hong Kong’s TV and Radio programmes as guest speaker, and writing different kind of articles in local newspapers.

Research Interests

Experimental Learning 

Life and Death Education

Moral Education

Wu Siu Wai is a Senior Lecturer I in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, and Co-Director of the Centre for Classical Chinese Education (CCCE) at the Education University of Hong Kong. He had completed Teacher Certificate (1983) in Sir Robert Black College of Education, Bachelor Degree (1993, Primary Education) in Hong Kong Chinese University, Master of Education (1996, Sociological Studies in Education) in Hong Kong University and Ph.D. (2001, Comparative Education) in Beijing Normal University. He began his career as a teacher educator at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 1995.  He has a long history of working for local committees and educational organizations, serving on the committees that produced the Code for the Education Profession of Hong Kong (1992), and the Guidelines on Civic Education in Schools (1996).

Dr Wu serves as the Executive Editor of the Hong Kong Educational Research Journal, the Vice-President of the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers, Academic Secretary of The Hong Kong Council for Educational Administration, the Honorary Secretary of the Hong Kong Primary Education Research Association and member of the Working Group on Educational Research Award Scheme(2025-27). He was the Chairperson of the Assessment Panel on Values Education in connection with the Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence (CEATE) 2024/2025 and has served as an Independent School Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Division of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau.  In 1997, Dr Wu received a Certificate of Appreciation for The Pursuit of Quality Teaching in Higher Education from the Consortium for the Promotion of Teaching Skills and Technology. 

As a local researcher, he has published, mostly in Chinese, more than 100 articles, chapters, books and journal articles. His professional link: https://repository.eduhk.hk/en/persons/siu-wai-wu .

Research Interests

Hong Kong educational policy

Comparative education and glonacal development

Teacher professional development and middle-manager learning

Chinese culture and philosophical ideas, and civic, life and national education

Dr. XIONG Weiyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Weiyan’s research focuses on higher education management, indigenous and ethnic minority higher education, international higher education, higher education policy, and higher education for sustainability.

Weiyan developed a constructivist and pragmatic approach in his research to address an essential question: how can a university better develop and fulfill its roles in teaching and learning, scientific research, and social service? With an international perspective, Weiyan’s pragmatic approach ensures his studies are policy-relevant, aimed at enhancing institutional development or offering higher education policy recommendations in various social contexts.

Weiyan has extensive leadership and management experience, having served as the director of several taught postgraduate (TPg) programs at EdUHK and Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He also served as a Program Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for International Studies in Education and was a Visiting Student Researcher at the UC Berkeley Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues. Weiyan earned his PhD in Higher Education Management from the University of Pittsburgh and MEd and LLB from Peking University.

Research Interests

International higher education

Indigenous and ethnic minority education

Higher education policy and management

Higher education for sustainability

Faculty professional development

Liberal arts education

Ying Ji (Yumjyi) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her disciplinary background is in International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, and Educational Policy Studies. She received her MPhil in Educational Research (distinction) and PhD in Education (thesis pass without correction) from the University of Cambridge and BA in English Language and Literature from Central China Normal University. Ying Ji’s research interests include cultural studies in education, global studies in education, equity and inclusion, values and ethics, educational governance, teachers’ work, teacher education, and higher education.

Research Interests:

• Cultural studies in education
• Global studies in education
• Equity and inclusion
• Values and ethics
• Educational governance
• Teachers’ work
• Teacher education
• Higher education

Other roles:

• Assistant Editor for Journal of International Students
• Guest editor for Higher Education Special Issue: Expressions of educational change agents: Student voice influences in higher education. (With Carla Briffett-Aktaş, Assoc. Professor)
• Programme Leader of Master of Arts in Leading Innovative Learning Organisations (LILO) at EPL, EdUHK.
• Member of Faculty Research and Higher Degrees Support Committee, FEHD, EdUHK
• External peer reviewers for journals (e.g., Teaching and Teacher Education, Comparative Education Review, Asia Pacific Education Review, American Behavioral Scientist, etc.)

Darren Bryant is a Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University. Previously he served in EdUHK as the Head of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership and as Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC). Darren’s research concerns leader development, middle leadership in schools and how leaders make sense of and enact policies in school.

Research Interests

Extra-curricular activities

Privatisation and educational service

Juvenile delinquency and student discipline

Team building in school

CHENG Yin Cheong is Emeritus Professor and Advisor (Academic Development), EPL of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He was Research Chair Professor of Leadership and Change (2014-2016), Vice President (Research and Development) of HKIEd (2008-2014), the immediate Past President of the World Education Research Association (WERA) (2014-2016) and the President of The Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) (2004-2008). Currently he is the chairman of Advisory Board of the Tin Ka Ping Foundation. Previously he had served as a full member of the University Grants Committee, a panel member of Research Grants Council, and a member of the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government. 

Prof. Cheng holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He has had extensive experiences in both education and research. His research is mainly on education effectiveness, paradigm shift, leadership, management reform, higher education, and teacher education. Prof. Cheng has published 20 academic books and over 250 book chapters, journal articles and other publications. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai and Persian languages. He is at present serving on the advisory boards of 17 international journals. He is also the associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Management (UK) since 2006. Prof. Cheng’s research has won him a number of international awards and recognition including the Awards for Excellence from the Literati Network in UK. In 2008, he was awarded as the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association in recognition of his excellent contribution to educational research in the Region. He has served as panel member, external examiner or reviewer for local and international universities and research institutions. He has been invited to provide consultancy services to national and international projects in Brunei Darussalam, Saudi Arabia, Gatar, India, Pakistan, Korea, Mainland China, Netherlands, Macao, and Thailand. In these years, Prof. Cheng has been invited to give over 110 keynote/plenary presentations by national and international organisations.

He has been very interested in watercolour painting since the end of 1960s and had invited personal exhibitions in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2014. He was invited by the Hong Kong Museum of Art to conduct art seminars.

For the details, please see http://home.ied.edu.hk/~yccheng/ 

Research Interests

Education reform

Paradigm shift in education

internationalisation of higher education

Leadership

Teacher education and development

School autonomy

21st century learning 

Michael Hand is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is a philosopher of education with research interests in the areas of moral, political, religious and philosophical education. His books include A Theory of Moral Education (Routledge, 2018), Education, Ethics and Experience (Routledge, 2015), Patriotism in Schools (Wiley, 2011), Philosophy in Schools (Bloomsbury, 2008) and Is Religious Education Possible? (Bloomsbury, 2006).

Michael is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Vice-Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Series Editor of Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education and Co-Editor of Journal of Philosophy in Schools.

Research Interests

The nature and aims of moral education

Teaching controversial issues

Education for patriotism

Philosophy in schools

The nature and aims of religious education

The justifiability of faith schools

Relationships and sex education

Autonomy as an educational aim

Punishment in schools

Education against extremism

Rupert Maclean is a Former Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Chair Professor of International Education, and UNESCO Chair Professor in Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning, at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). He was the foundation Director of UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education in Bonn. His previous appointments include those of: Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris; Acting Director of the UNESCO Principal regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok; Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID) at UNESCO Bangkok; and, UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor for the United Nations project to strengthen and upgrade teacher education throughout Myanmar. His scholarly work in education, and particularly in technical and vocational education and training, is well known from his numerous publications. He is recognized internationally as a leading change agent in education for social development. He has a thorough understanding of TVET in the Asia-Pacific region, contextualized by his broad grasp of educational issues, developments and scholarship world-wide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Australia ‘for distinguished service to technical and vocational education particularly through UNESCO’ in 2011.

Mark Mason is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong.  He works in the field of comparative and international education and development from a disciplinary background in philosophy, social theory, complexity theory and education studies.  His research has been recognized in Hong Kong by the award of a Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship.

He is a former Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development (Elsevier) and of the CERC Studies in Comparative Education Series (Springer), and is an Associate Editor of the Southern African Review of Education.  He is a Past President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong and a former Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Mason has worked for UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education in Geneva as a senior programme specialist in curriculum and learning development, for the University of Hong Kong, the University of Cape Town, and as a secondary teacher of Mathematics and English.

He has published more than 100 articles, chapters, books and journal special issues in these research areas, and his work has been translated and published in ten languages.

A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds a doctorate from Columbia University in New York.

Research Interests

Comparative and international education and development

Complexity theory and educational change

Ethics and education

Culture and comparative education

Critical reasoning and education

Professor TANG Yee Fan Sylvia is Adjunct Professor (Practice) of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) at The Education University of Hong Kong. Previously she had served as Associate Professor and Professor (Practice) of EPL, and Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Education and Human Development (FEHD).  

Professor Tang graduated from The University of Hong Kong and received a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Distinction) and a Master of Education. She obtained her PhD at the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK. 

Before working in teacher education, Professor Tang was a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong. She began working in teacher education at the Northcote College of Education and has been a long-serving member of The Education University of Hong Kong. Professor Tang has extensive experience in the field of tertiary teaching and has taught in undergraduate, postgraduate diploma, Master of Education and Doctor of Education programmes; as well as professional development programmes for teachers and school principals in the areas of teacher education and development and qualitative approaches to educational research. She also conducted thesis supervision with doctoral students and teaching supervision of students in Field Experience at undergraduate and postgraduate diploma levels.  

Professor Tang’s research interests cover various aspects of teacher education and development, including initial teacher education; student teachers’ learning and professional competence; teachers’ continuing professional development; and mentoring. She has published extensively in internationally renowned journals, and has published book chapters on teacher education. Currently, she serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Teacher Education as well as Teaching and Teacher Education. 

Professor Tang served as Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of FEHD from 2013 to 2023, overseeing matters related to learning and teaching at the faculty level. She led faculty-level learning and teaching projects, co-ordinated faculty members in the review and development of the undergraduate curriculum, and initiated and administered faculty-level funding and award schemes on learning and teaching.  

Professor Tang has been actively engaging in serving the teaching profession in Hong Kong. She was a member and professional advisor of the Special Meetings on Review of Teacher Competencies Framework, and the Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and Principals from 2014 to 2016. She also contributed to teacher education in her role as a member of the Working Group on Development of a Guiding Framework for Primary and Secondary Teacher Education Programmes, the Education Bureau from 2022 to 2023. Professor Tang has had extensive experience in presentations on topics related to teachers’ continuing professional development in Leadership Training Programmes in Hong Kong and Macau, as well as staff development events in schools in Hong Kong.  

Allan Walker is Adjunct Research Chair Professor of International Educational Leadership and Co-Director of The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).  Previously he had served as Joseph Lau Chair Professor of International Educational Leadership, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development and Director of APCLC. Prior joining the EdUHK, he has worked in universities in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong and has conducted leader development courses and/or research in America, Europe and across the Asia Pacific.

Allan has published extensively on educational administration and leadership; and school leadership development and learning. His work also explores the relationship between culture and school leadership. Allan serves on the editorial boards of the top ranked journals in his field and has published over 300 books and articles with international publishers and in the world’s most prestigious academic journals.  His recent research focuses on expanding knowledge of school leadership in Chinese and other Asian societies and disseminating this internationally.  Allan has also acted as a consultant/advisor on large-scale research and development activities in countries including China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Canada, the US, South Africa, Chile, New Zealand and Australia.

He is known internationally for his passion for school leadership, innovative approaches to leader development and the promotion of leader control and accountability for their own professional learning. In 2010 Allan was made a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership for his contribution to educational leadership research and development globally, but especially in South and Southeast Asia. In 2011, he was awarded an endowed chair professorship by The Education University of Hong Kong in recognition of his outstanding research and academic achievements in international educational leadership. In 2015, he was awarded the Edwin M. Bridges Award by the University Council of Educational Administration in recognition of his significant contribution to the preparation and development of school leaders.  He has won six General Research Fund grants and twenty other competitive research and development grants.

Dr. Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. She completed her doctoral degree from the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand, and was nominated as the convocation speaker representing all the doctoral graduates. This selection was based on her research being published in a journal with the highest impact factor among all doctoral graduates. Dr. Ahmad was a Lecturer at BRAC University School of Business, Bangladesh before she pursued her doctoral degree, which was based on financial innovation and economic inclusion, adapting a quantitative approach. She also worked as a research assistant in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her previous research focused on DEI and ethnic minorities in education, adapting qualitative approaches. Currently, her recent project involves School Leadership and Inclusion.

Research Interests

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in education
Ethnic Minority in Education
Multicultural Education
Internationalization of Education
Campus Racial Climate
Financial Literacy
School Leadership

Dr. Banoglu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He obtained his doctoral degree from Ghent University as a recipient of the Special Research Fund (BOF). His dissertation received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation award named after Prof. Dr. Kadir Beycioğlu by the Educational Administration Research and Development Association-EERA.

Dr. Banoglu's most recent works have been published in School Leadership & Management (2024), Journal of School Leadership (2023), and Professional Development in Education (2023). He serves as the chief editor for Research in Educational Administration & Leadership (REAL), a Web of Science and Scopus-indexed, open-access, non-commercial, international journal. Additionally, he is the interim assistant editor for the International Journal of Leadership in Education (IJLE) and an editorial board member of Methodological Innovations (MIO). He also serves on the advisory board for the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing School Leadership Book Series. In the academic arena, Dr. Banoglu taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Leadership Theories, Research Methods, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Project Management, and Education Philosophy at several universities. He recently supervised a Master's thesis (2023) on the canonical relationship between school principals’ instructional and technology leadership practices.

Beyond his academic career, Dr. Banoglu has worked as an ICT teacher at all stages of K-12 education. He also has extensive project management experience, having served as Chief Project Executive at Maltepe District Governorship of Istanbul. In this role, he developed and managed numerous social equity and inclusion-oriented education projects funded by organizations such as UNHCR, Save the Children of Istanbul, Ministry of Development Agencies, and European Union fundings. He was recognized as the Principal Investigator of the Best State Project in 2019 by the Turkish Ministry of Interior.

Research Interests

Technology leadership

Professional learning

Social network analysis

Critical education theories

Dr. Kouhsari is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her academic achievements include being recognized as an Outstanding Student (2017) at Ferdowsi University in Iran and as a Talented Student by the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (2018). Additionally, she received the Outstanding Student award at Kharazmi University in 2021. She has also worked as a research assistant in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her previous research focused on both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Currently, her recent projects involve Latent Profile Analysis, Psychological Network Models, and Multilevel Models.

Research Interests

Positive Organizational Behavior

Positive School Leadership

Instructional Leadership

Digital Transformation in Education.

Dr. WANG Ye Christine is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership at the Hong Kong University of Education (EdUHK). Honored with the Junior Research Fellowship (JRFS) by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, she is dedicated to advancing teacher educational research and contributing to teacher professional growth and leadership development.

She obtained a Ph.D degree from Hiroshima University in Japan and an Ed.D degree from EdUHK. During her doctoral studies, she collaborated on international research projects with partners in the Netherlands, United States, Japan, South Korea, and Uganda, bringing a global perspective to her work. After graduating, she served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Early Childhood Education at EdUHK, contributing to the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (JC)-funded KeySteps 2.0 project, a five-year longitudinal project supporting the holistic development of children, families, schools, and communities in the underprivileged districts of Hong Kong.

Research Interests

• Teacher education
• Professional growth
• Leadership development
• Teaching effectiveness
• Teacher qualities
• Well-being

• Course Management: PT Undergraduate & PGDE

• Part-time Lecturers Appointment

• Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET)

• L&T Data Collection 

• Programme Managements: IELC, TLIS Minor and PDPs (CWP014 & CWP023 - will start from 2026-27 and onwards)
• Departmental Technical Support
• E-learning Support

• Timetabling & Workload Allocation
• Secretary of DLTC
• Course Management: Postgraduate level

• Secretary of DRHDC
• Knowledge Transfer
• Staff Development: Departmental Support Scheme
• RPg and EdD Coordination

• Marketing and External Communications
  - Website
  - Social Media
  - Social and Community Communication
  - Poster/Promotion of Activities

• Departmental Technical Support

• Procurement Service for Documentary Videos

• Course Management: Full-time Undergraduate
• Part-time Lecturers Appointment

• Secretary of DRHDC
• Knowledge Transfer
• Staff Development: Departmental Support Scheme
• RPg and EdD Coordination
• Programme Managements: PDPs (CWP014 & CWP023)

• QA and E Representative
• International Engagement and Outreach Activities (GLEF study tours, Shell course, OCLES, ELAT)
• New Initiative Coordination

• Programme Managements: PDPs (CHA043, BWP067, BWP088, BWP104, BWP120, BWP122, BWP130, BWP141, CWP016, CWP018, CWP024)

• Staff Reimbursements, Payment Arrangements, Supplies & Record Keeping

• Managing Printing Room, Meeting Room and Fixed Assets Inventory

• Assistance in Setting Up the Office for New Faculty Members

• Overall administrative management
• Department financial and Staffing control
• Staff Development: Application for Conference, Duty Trips and Development Leave

• Programme Management & Development and Student Learning: MA(GSE)

• BSc (EM) Programme Management & Development and Student Learning

• Internship [BSc (EM)]
•  FYP Coordination
• Support of Course Teaching and Teaching Materials Development
• GBA Visit, GLEF and CLOC activities

• Internship [BSc (EM)]
•  FYP Coordination
• Support of Course Teaching and Teaching Materials Development
• GBA Visit, GLEF and CLOC activities

• FE coordination, Support to MA(GSE) and MEd

• Support Research & Development
• Support to Outreach Activities

Dr. LEUNG retired from The Education University of Hong Kong in 2015 and now he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the University. Dr. LEUNG got his BSc and MA(Ed) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1976 and 1983 respectively, PGDE from Hong Kong University in 1978 and PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2003. He joined The Hong Kong Institute of Education (the former name of the Education University of Hong Kong) in 1995. He was appointed the Associate Director and later Co-Director of the Centre for Governance and Citizenship from 2009 to 2016. He researches and teaches mainly on civic education, human rights education, national education, political socialisation, democratisation of schools and educational policies. Dr. LEUNG has published extensively in international, regional journals and books. He also engages actively in civil society in Hong Kong and was the coordinator of the Hong Kong Alliance for Civic Education.

Research Interests

Civic education

Human rights education

National education

Political socialization

Democratization of schools and educational policies

Prof. Ng Shun Wing is currently Professor of the Faculty of Psychology and Education at the University of Saint Joseph, Macau. He is also Adjunct Professor of Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He was formerly Head of EPL, Council Member and Warden of Jockey Club Student Quarters at EdUHK. He graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed his Master Degree in the University of Nottingham in UK in 1993 and received his PhD in Education from the University of Exeter in 2002. He was also the Programme Leader of the Training Programmes for Aspiring Principals, Newly Appointed Principals and Experienced Principals. Prof. Ng has published three books and more than one hundred articles in international journals and book chapters. His article entitled "Rethinking the Mission of Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific Region" in Compare was awarded the Annual IISE Best Article 2013 by the University of Pittsburgh Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE). He has been invited to deliver keynotes in international conferences and by many universities and education institutions in the Chinese Mainland and Asian countries.

Reseaerch Interests

Parental involvement in school education

Education policy and change

Higher education

School leadership and management

Citizenship education

Dr. George Siu-keung NGAI is the Senior Lecturer I at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership of the University. He holds a doctorate from the University of Hull, England. His research interests and projects cover various aspects of the field of education including citizenship education, principal leadership, gender and small class teaching. Dr Ngai teaches a range of courses related to the area of philosophy and sociology of education, life skills and general education. He helps to run programs related to principal training and certification for principalship in Hong Kong. He himself holds the award of the certification for principalship issued by the Education Bureau. Besides, Dr Ngai is a school manager of a primary school and a secondary school in Hong Kong.

Research Interests

Social contexts of educational policy

Macro-sociocultural contexts of education

Micro-sociocultural contexts of education

Jacob Oppong Nkansah is a Research Assistant at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) at The Education University of Hong Kong. He holds dual doctoral degrees: a Ph.D. in Social Studies Education from the University of Education, Ghana and a Doctor of Policy Studies from Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where he was awarded a prestigious full scholarship in recognition of his academic excellence.

Jacob’s research is situated at the nexus of global and international higher education, the global research ecosystem, social policy and health social work. His scholarly work critically examines the dynamics of educational mobility, international academic partnerships, and the strategic emergence of new academic hubs in shaping global knowledge production. A significant strand of his research focuses on the lived experiences of First-Generation College students and African doctoral students and offering nuanced insights into the implications of shifting global power structures for higher education policy, equity, and practice.

With a commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry and policy-relevant scholarship, Jacob contributes to advancing understanding of how global trends influence educational systems, research collaboration, and the socio-political dimensions of academic mobility. His work informs both academic discourse and practical policy development in the context of increasingly interconnected educational landscapes.

Xinzi is from Singapore and currently works as a Research Assistant in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL). She holds a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and spent more than six years working in the private sector before pursuing her academic interest in education. She later earned her Master of Education (Higher Education) with Distinction from The University of Hong Kong (HKU).

Xinzi is passionate about continuous learning and welcomes opportunities for academic collaboration.

Research interest:

• Higher education policy

• International Collaboration

• Comparative and International Education