Dr Xin Xu
Xin Xu (许心) is a Departmental Lecturer in Higher/Tertiary Education at the University of Oxford. Her research concentrates on higher/tertiary education and research.
At CGHE, Xin worked on CGHE Project 3 ‘Research on Research’, serves on CGHE RMC, and convenes the agenda committee of CGHE Oxford. Recent books include Handbook of Meta-Research (co-edited with Alis Oancea, Gemma Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh; Edward Elgar, 2024) and Changing Higher Education in East Asia (co-edited with Simon Marginson; Bloomsbury, 2022).
At the University of Oxford, Xin teaches on the MSc in Education (Higher Education) programme, and supervises DPhil and MSc dissertations. She was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she completed her PhD as a Clarendon Scholar.
In general, Xin’s research aims to:
(1) Contribute to critical, impactful, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research on tertiary education and research;
(2) Advance conceptualisations of and empirical works on intersectional injustice and inequity in tertiary education, particularly in the changing global context;
(3) Contribute to cultivating equitable, ethical, collaborative, and resilient futures of tertiary education.
Xin’s full profile is available on the University of Oxford’s website.
CGHE publications
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- Webinar 2 | CGHE Research on Research Project
- CGHE Webinar Series: Research on Research Project
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- International academics in mainland China: what do we know and what do we need to know?
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- Changing Higher Education in East Asia: A CGHE Book Symposium
- Thinking through tianxia: A new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education
- The rise and rise of research in China: what does it mean for China and the world?
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model
- What is ‘higher education studies’ and what are its uses? A panel session
- WEBINAR PANEL — Global research in the Covid-19 pandemic
Select publications
- Changing Higher Education in East Asia
Marginson, S and Xu, X (eds). Bloomsbury, January 2022 - A policy trajectory analysis of the internationalisation of Chinese humanities and social sciences research
International Journal of Educational Development, July 2021 - Epistemic diversity and cross-cultural comparative research: ontology, challenges, and outcomes
Globalisation, Societies and Education, May 2021 - The impacts of incentives for international publications on research cultures in Chinese humanities and social sciences
Minerva, April 2021 - Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on global research
International Higher Education, Autumn Issue 2020 - China ‘goes out’ in a centre/periphery world: Incentivising international publications in the humanities and social sciences
Higher Education, December 2019 - Performing under ‘the Baton of Administrative Power’? Chinese Academics’ Responses to Incentives for International Publications
Research Evaluation, November 2019 - Incentivising international publications: institutional policymaking in Chinese higher education
Studies in Higher Education, October 2019 - How far has the state ‘stepped back’: an exploratory study of the changing governance of higher education in China
Higher Education, March 2019