Dr Jingran Yu

Jingran Yu is an assistant professor at the Institute of Education, Xiamen University (China), and an honorary research associate at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on global educational mobilities (including international student mobility and transnational education), approached through interdisciplinary lenses across educational studies, sociology, and human geography. Her recent research is centred on China’s transnational education and technical assistance along Belt and Road countries, particularly in Malaysia and Laos. Her PhD research, titled ‘Imaginative Travellers In-situ: A Case Study of Chinese Students at a UK Transnational Higher Education Institution’ was awarded the BERA Doctoral Thesis Award (2021).