Just a reminder that the deadline for Journal of Vocational Education & Training conference abstracts is 9 December 2024. The conference will be held 24 - 26 July at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. It is a fabulous conference: jvet.uk/conference-2025

I have a wee talk at the @eduhk next Monday. Join it if you are around. This talk draws on my latest research on Zhihu users' portrayals of Chinese doctoral supervisors in the West.

This is Leesa Wheelahan, Jakob Kost and my introduction to the special issue of JVET on the social role of colleges in international perspectives. It introduces articles on Australia, Brazil, England, Norway,South Africa, and Urals. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Niklas Rosenblad & I have just published an open access article where we theorise the nature of the person envisaged in skill discourses & propose an alternative conception drawing on Margaret Archer's critical realist approach. doi.org/10.1080/014256…

📢 TOMORROW: Join our upcoming Zoom webinar on #liberal #arts and the legacy of #China's #Christian #universities, featuring Prof Ruth Hayhoe and Dr Leping Mou.📚🇨🇳 🗒️ Tuesday, 18 February ⏰ 4:00-5:30pm (UK time) 💻 On Zoom only 🎟️ Free tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/113063716920…

Check out the latest special issue of Comparative Education! Highly recommend my colleague Jeremy Rappleye's piece—a critique of the field being overly Marxian. (BTW, it is inderect critique of my own work too!) 😀 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Really excited about this project! Looking for teachers in Scotland and Canada to do an online interview for Learning to engage with parents: Lifelong teacher professional development for parent engagement. If interested, send me an email to [email protected]

📢 Call for Papers for #SRHE2025 now open! We invite submissions for research papers, symposia, and posters from postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners in HE research. Visit bit.ly/3CFqrHz to find out more. Closing date 15 May 2025. #Conference #CFP

#Conference #Call for Abstracts: Glasgow-Peking Comparative Higher Education Symposium 2025: Co-imagining Shared Futures of Higher Education in Diverse Contexts, Histories, Cultures, and Traditions; Abstracts submission deadline: 30 April 2025. Link: t.ly/fq3Ya

#Conference Glasgow-Peking Comparative Higher Education Symposium 2025: Co-imagining Shared Futures of Higher Education in Diverse Contexts, Histories, Cultures, and Traditions; t.ly/gD-Wt. Abstracts submission deadline: 30 April 2025. Link: t.ly/fq3Ya

The submission deadline has been extended to 7 May. One more week to submit abstract for joining this exciting event in Glasgow this summer.

Extended deadline for submission: 7 May, 2025

New publication alert! Liberal arts education through a Confucian lens: contextualization and indigenization. Open access: doi.org/10.1080/030750…

The location and time of my Keynote at British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies annual conference are revealed. Come to my talk if you are in Glasgow on 23 May at 4:20 pm. Let' discuss #time #inheritance #education #mobilities in #China! Network for Research into Chinese Ed Mobilities

Delighted to welcome delegates from around the world to the first day of the Glasgow-Peking Higher Education Symposium: Co-imagining Shared Futures of HE in Diverse Contexts, Histories, Cultures and Traditions CR&DALL

Congratulations to Dr Leping Mou, PhD who has been awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Research Grant for his work on liberal arts education in East Asia

Full article: Revisiting credentialism – why qualifications matter: a theoretical exploration ⁦Gavin Moodie⁩ and I have just published an article on why qualifications matter, even if they are imperfect. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Leesa Wheelahan & I argue argue that qualifications matter, even if they are imperfect & contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities. Socially just qualifications would include 4 purposes: individual, educational, occupational, & social. Open access. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is an article that Gavin Moodie and I have just published. It is open access

JVET has a call for a special issue to debate outcomes-based qualifications. Abstracts close 2 February 2026. Two types of papers will be considered: 2000 word articles in a Forum section, and 8000 word scholarly articles: jvet.uk/journal-inform…