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Biography

    1. Dr. Yingxin Liu joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in August 2022. She is currently a lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong, with a specialization in higher education. Her doctoral project was about research agenda-setting of academics in the context of higher education in both mainland China and Hong Kong. She has formalized a strategic research agenda-setting theory in her thesis, which unpacks the mechanism of individual research practices and academic career trajectories. More broadly, her research interests include international mobility, graduate employment, higher education policy, academic profession, comparative higher education, and talent management. Dr. Yingxin Liu was invited to be the facilitator of the United Nations Global Compact Young SDGs Innovators Program. She is also an associate editor of "Humanities & Social Sciences Communications," and a reviewer of international journals like "Higher Education Quarterly," "Humanities & Social Sciences Communications," "Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education," "Journal of International Students," and "European Journal of Education."

Awards and honors
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2017
  • 2014
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  • 01

    2022

    Best presenter award for best presentation in the Research Postgraduate Conference 2021 - 2022, organized by Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

  • 02

    2022

    Awardee of 25th Recognition Ceremony, The University of Hong Kong

  • 03

    2021

    University Research Postgraduate Student Conference Grant, The University of Hong Kong

  • 04

    2017

    Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS), The University of Hong Kong (2017-2021)

  • 05

    2017

    University Postgraduate Fellowships (UPF), The University of Hong Kong (2017-2021)

  • 06

    2014

    Excellence Award in the China, Republic of Korea, and Japan Youth Summit awarded by the Republic of Korea Foreign Affair Ministry

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Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE

    1. [1] Shenderova, S., Jokila, S., Anafinova, S., Liu, Y., Sharma, H., & Steane, N. (2024). The shadows of internationalisation: Conceptual lens and policy perspectives. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 8(3), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.6036
    1. [2] Liu, Y., Chen, L.*, & Li, X. (2024). Where is our way? A collaborative autoethnography of overseas-educated Chinese female PhDs' academic career decision journey. Higher Education Quarterly, 78(2), 368-387. DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12480
    [3] Liu, Y. & Li, D.* (2024). Unsettling academia: Academic career choices and pathways of PhD graduates in the Greater Bay Area in China. Higher Education Quarterly, 78(2), 388-403. DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12460
    1. [4] Santos, J. M., Liu, Y.* & Tang, H. H. H. (2022). Research agendas and culture: A new analytical approach for understanding academic profession in Asia and Europe. European Journal of Higher Education, 12(S1), 434-455. DOI: 10.1080/21568235.2022.2096091


BOOK CHAPTERS

      1. [1] Liu, Y.* & Le, A. T. (2023). Travel policies and international student mobility in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: A general review of cases in Australia and China. In T. Mammadova (Ed.), Academic Mobility through the Lens of Language and Identity, Global Pandemics, and Distance Internationalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003366942-13
      2. [2] Liu, Y.* & Horta, H. (2023). Challenges, opportunities, and coping strategies when faced with the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative inquiry of academics in Mainland and Hong Kong. In E. Balbachevsky, A. Yonezawa, P. Pillay, & R. Pinheiro (Eds.), The Impact of COVID-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education: Accelerating Old Patterns, Imposing New Dynamics, and Changing Rules? Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26393-4_12

    • CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

        1. [1] Cong, Y.*, & Liu, Y. (2024, November). A qualitative exploration of international students' motivation for cross-border joint universities in China's Greater Bay Area. China and Higher Education Conference 2024. Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China.

          [2] Liu, Y.*, Qin, H., & Li, H. (2024, July). Exploring the (mis)match between pre-employment expectations and actual experiences: A comparative study of early career academics in China. Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) XXIX Conference. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

          [3] Liu, Y.*, Cong, Y., & Zang, J. (2023, December). A Post-pandemic exploration of international student management in China: A case study in a cross-border joint university. HKERA-APERA International Conference. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

          [4] Liu, Y., Li, X.*, & Chen, L. (2023, November). Where is our way? A collaborative autoethnography of academic career strategizing of Chinese female doctoral students in Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. RIHE International Seminar, Hiroshima, Japan.

        2. [5] Pinheiro, R., Clarke, M., Liu, Y., Horta, H., Pekkola, E., Yonezawa, A., & Balbachevsky, E. (2023, August). The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education (Roundtable). The 35th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) Conference, Vienna, Austria.

        3. [6] Liu, Y.* & Huang, Q. (2023, June). Downward Mobility of Returned Early Career Academics at Non-elite Universities in China. The 2023 Higher Education Research Association (HERA) Conference, Hiroshima, Japan.

          1. [7] Liu, Y.* & Li, D. (2022, November). Striving for academia: Responsive career trajectories of PhD graduates in the Greater Bay Area in China. The symposium on employment trajectories of PhD graduates in East Asia organized by UCL, PKU, HKU (CHERA), virtual meeting.

            [8] Liu, Y.*, Li, X. & Chen, L. (2022, November). Where is our way? A collaborative autoethnography of academic career strategizing of Chinese female doctoral students in Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. The symposium on employment trajectories of PhD graduates in East Asia organized by UCL, PKU, HKU (CHERA), virtual meeting.

          [9] Liu, Y.*, Le, A. T. & Oropilla, C. (2022, September). Responsiveness of travel restriction policies at universities in China, Australia, and Norway amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 34th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland.
        1. [10] Liu, Y.*, Tang, L. & Ruan, N. (2022, September). Gender disparities revisited: Career trajectories of female academics versus male academics in mainland China and Hong Kong. The 34th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland.
        [11] Liu, Y. (2022, May). About research agendas of academics in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Faculty of Education Research Postgraduate Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. 
        [12] Liu, Y.*, Cao, R. & Munoz C. A. R. (2022, April). The "double disruption": Doing a PhD in politically unstable contexts during the pandemic - experiences from Hong Kong, Russia, and Chile. Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER) Asia-Pacific Webinar, online.
        [13] Liu, Y. (2022, April). Strategic research agenda setting theory: A novel perspective to examine research paths of individual academics in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The 2022 Higher Education Research Association (HERA) Conference, Seoul, Korea.
        [14] Santos, J. M., Liu, Y.* & Tang, H. H. H. (2021, September). Academic life and the restructuring of research agendas in the face of uncertainty - predicament, opportunities, or business as usual? The 33rd Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) Annual Conference, Hong Kong SAR, China.
        [15] Liu, Y.* & Horta, H. (2021, June). Strategic academic adaptation: A qualitative examination of how academics in Mainland and Hong Kong cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2nd International Conference of the Journal Scuola Democratica: Reinventing Education, Sardinia, Italy. 
        [16] Liu, Y. (2021, April). Recalibrate research agenda-setting and the factors influencing research agenda-setting of academics in the applied disciplinary fields in a research university in China. The 2021 Higher Education Research Association (HERA) Conference, Seoul, Korea. 
        [17] Liu, Y. (2021, March). Unveiling the research agenda-setting of academics from the applied fields. The 3rd Seminar of Consortium for Higher Education Research in Asia (CHERA) Early Career Researchers Network in Asian Higher Education Studies. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. 
        [18] Ruan, N.*, Tang, L. & Liu, Y. (2019, May). Academic career across disciplines in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Faculty of Education Research Postgraduate Conference, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. 
        [19] Liu, Y. (2019, March). Delving into the conceptualization of research agenda-setting of academics from different disciplinary fields: A regional exploration in China and Hong Kong. Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China. 
        [20] Liu, Y. (2018, April). Comparative studies on entrepreneurial orientation and engagement of university students in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. The 4th International Conference on Education, Bangkok, Thailand.


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