SIG Mentoring Program

One of the key initiatives of the SIG is to nurture Early Career Academics (ECA) through an ongoing mentoring program. The most common need identified by our mentees is academic publishing. Over the past a few years, a strong cohort of ECAs have benefited from our mentoring program. In 2023/24, for example, Dr Lei Jiang, mentored by Associate Professor Michael Mu, had a manuscript on Asian American multilingual learners' college access accepted by the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. Other mentees have been further developing and consolidating their work-in-progress with the support of their mentors. We will continue to celebrate their success.

SIG Webinar Series

As part of our SIG’s new initiative, we are showcasing the most recent research in the field of Bourdieu and educational research. In collaboration with the WeChat group Bourdieu & Chinese Academicus, we organised a webinar series focused on Bourdieu and Chinese international students. Across three webinars, we featured seven papers published in 2025. A list of these publications is provided below:

Taken-for-granted understandings in access to international higher education: a study of Chinese agent-user students’ university application experiences

Ying Yang

A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning

Kun Dai, Xiaoyuan Li, Guanglun Michael Mu

Light and shadow: Students’ first-year transition through the complexities of higher education

Yang Hang

Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China: A Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis

Pengfei Pan & Guanglun Michael Mu

Resilience and symbolic violence: Navigating cultural and structural constraints in Chinese students’ transnational higher education experiences

Yaqiao Liu, Congcong Xing, & Kun Dai

Intersectionality in transnational postgraduate labor market transitions of mobile students from the Global South: A mixed-methods longitudinal perspective on two case studies

Carola Bauschke-Urban & Dorina Dedgjoni

A ‘community turn’ to engaging international students: The ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ social capital

Guanglun Michael Mu, Hannah Soong, & Wanwan Zhou