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Yu Jingran Assistant Professor

Master's Supervisor

Research Institute:The Comparative and International Education

  • Phone number:(+86)15258290549
  • Email:yujingran@xmu.edu.cn

Education


Ph.D. Sociology

The University of Manchester

Thesis: Imaginative Travellers in-situ: A Case Study of Chinese Students at a UK Transnational Higher Education Institution

December 2019

MSc. Sociology (Culture and Society)

London School of Economics and Political Science    

Dissertation: Understanding Chinese Students’ Decision-making in Participating in Higher Education in the UK: A Bourdieusian Perspective


October 2014

BA (Hons.) International Communications Studies

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Dissertation: The Internet as a Public Sphere? A Case Study of China

July 2013

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor

Institute of Education, Xiamen University (China)

2022- present

Honorary Research Associate

School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester

2021- present

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Centre for Higher Education, Southern University of Science and Technology (China)

2020- 2021

Widening Participation Fellow

The University of Manchester  

2017

Assistant Research Fellow

School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
2014-2015





Publications

Monograph

Yu. J (2026). Mobile Educational Spaces and Student Experience: The Case of Transnational Higher Education. Routledge.

(The SRHE Book Series: Research into Higher Education; Edited by Prof. Rachel Brooks and Prof. Sarah O’Shea).

Article

Yu, J., & Xie, A*. (2025). Reimagining the illusio of meritocracy: affective and reflexive reconfigurations in rural students’ transition to elite universities. Higher Education, 1-16.

Yu, J. (2024). ‘Ways of doing’ and ‘ways of being’: Cultivating cosmopolitanism in situ at a transnational education institution. Higher Education, 1-17.

Yu, J., Rai, R., Lim, M. A., & Li, H. (2023). The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK. Higher Education, 1-16.

Yu, J. (2022). Mobile educational space and imaginative travellers in-situ: A case study of a UK international branch campus in China. Social & Cultural Geography, 1-20.

Lim, M. A., Li, H., Yu, J., Ban, X., Levy, K., Li, B., & Wang, A. (2022). COVID 19 incidents against Chinese and East Asian Students in the UK: Safety Security and Communication. HERE@Manchester.

El Allame, Y. E. K., Dunrong, B., Anas, H., Jie, M., Amutuhaire, T., Yifan, H., & Yu, J. (2022). Academic Collaboration in Africa and Asia: Current Status, Challenges, and Emerging Trends and Strategies. International Journal of African Higher Education, 9(3), 37-61.

Yu, J. (2021). Consuming UK transnational higher education in China: A Bourdieusian approach to Chinese students’ perceptions and experiences. Sociological Research Online, 26(1), 222-239.


Awards & Qualifications


BERA Doctoral Thesis Award

British Educational Research Association
2021

Associate Fellow

Higher Education Academy (UK) (No. PR147189)

2018

Research Projects

search on the Implementation Pathways and Operating Mechanisms of ‘Higher Vocational Education Going-Global’ in Alignment with Enterprises’ Overseas Expansion          2025-present

Role: Principal Investigator

Funder: National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC)

Taiwanese Students in Fujian: Social Networks and Career Development          March 2024-Present

Role: Principal Investigator

Funder: Social Science Research Council of Fujian Province, China

International Branch Campuses and National Image-building: A comparative analysis of the UK and China          March 2023-present

Role: Principal Investigator

Funder: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China

COVID-19 and Chinese and East Asian University Students in the UK: Safety, Security, and Communication          July 2020-2021

Role: Co-Investigator

Funder: The British Academy

Mainland Chinese Students’ socio-cultural integration in the UK          2019-2020

Role: Research Assistant

Project: Manchester China Institute

Building Images: Exploring 21st-century Sino-African Dynamics through Cultural Exchange and Translation          2014-2015

Role: Assistant Research Fellow  

Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council