1st Annual CHELPS Conference
7 June, 2025 (Saturday)
Abstract Presentation
Parallel Paper Session (11:30-13:00)
Session 1A: Sustainable Leadership for Global Universities
Constructing a Cultivational Leadership Model: Confucianism as a Humanistic Resource
Yanzhen ZHU & Lihuan CHEN
Transdisciplinary Research among Academic Staff in Japan: Insights from a Faculty and Graduate Student Survey
Kohei TAKAGI & Akiko Morozumi
Constructing Sustainable Universities: A Multidimensional Liveable Framework for Sustainability in Australian Universities
Jap Kevin SUSANTO
Trends and Themes in Japanese Higher Education Leadership Research: Perspectives from a Systematic Scoping Review
Bradley D. F. COLPITTS
A “Jack of All Trades”: Interrogating the Leadership Strategies and Roles of Senior International Officers at U.S. Research Universities
Michael LANFORD
Chinese Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education
Guoqin GONG
Parallel Paper Session (11:30-13:00)
Session 1B: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Leadership
Research Misconduct in Asia Higher Education Research - Tracking the Retracted
Michelle Wing Tung CHENG
Formal Leadership in Chinese Higher Education: A Distributed Perspective
Ling WANG
When Academic Freedom Meets Gender Theory Controversy: A Case Study of University of Sussex
Jing PENG
A Study on the Leadership of Provosts in U.S. Universities: Based on Interviews
Takuto SUZUKI
Barriers to Female Leadership in Public Higher Education Institutions in Mainland China: An Individual, Sociocultural, and Organizational Perspective
Jinghui LIU
Navigating Development Between State and Globe: Chinese Private University Leaders’ Practices in Internationalisation
Mei WANG
Parallel Paper Session (11:30-13:00)
Session 1C: Global Perspectives on Doctoral Education
The Global Cultural Capital of the Hong Kong PhD: An Emerging Pathway to Academic Careers in Global Higher Education
Ewan WRIGHT
Examining Doctoral Supervisor-Supervisee Power Dynamics and the Impact on Student Development in a Transnational University
Cheng CUI
Shaping Academic Paths: Can Doctoral Training and Professional Conditions Drive Junior Academics in Taiwan and Japan to Stay in Academia?
Ives Hsu-Hong CHENG
Glonacal Learning in Chinese Higher Education: STEM International Doctoral Students Navigating Multipolarity and Chinese Characteristics
Jie XU & Kun DAI
Reevaluating Transformational Leadership through a Cultural Integration Lens: Historical Insights from Chinese University Presidents in the Republic of China
Pengjuan WANG
Navigating Inequities: First-Generation University Students’ Access to Cosmopolitan Cultural Capital in Hong Kong
Kwan Ho KWOK
Parallel Paper Session (11:30-13:00)
Session 1D: Research Mobility and International Competence
National Security Education in Hong Kong’s Universities in the ‘New Era’
Zhenzhou ZHAO
Beyond the PhD: The Impact of Career Mobility on Long-Term Research Productivity of International Graduates
Shuoyang MENG
Job Preferences of Chinese PhD Students Based in Hong Kong
Wangyi DAI
Between ‘Harmonious Competition’ and ‘Academic Capitalism’: An Autoethnographic Accounting of A Tenure-track (Bianzhi) Foreign University Teacher’s Experience with Neijuan Academic Culture within China’s Zhong Yong University Model
Benjamin Jonathan GREEN
Exploring the Dual Roles of Program Leaders in Hong Kong’s Self-Financed Taught Postgraduate Programs
Weiyan XIONG
Parallel Paper Session (11:30-13:00)
Session 1E: Navigating International Academic Mobility
Who is the Globally Competent Student? A Prototype Study among Local University Students in Hong Kong
Ying JI & Dala DUO
Negotiating Identities in Transnational Higher Education: A Narrative Inquiry of Student Experience at Hong Kong Institutions’ Branch Campuses in Mainland China
Xiaofan ZHANG; Kun DAI & Yabing LIU
Bridging Borders: Designing Support Systems for Tomorrow’s International Academics
Ruoyi QIU
What Keeps Early-Career Academics Going? A CrossNational Study on Intentions to Continue Teaching and Research
En-Yu LIU
The Dual Benefits or Dilemma? — The Career Trajectories of Academic Staff Working for Transnational Higher Education Institutions in China
Keyu ZHAI
Transitioning Early-Career STEM Faculty from Research to Teaching: Examining the Impact of Educational Action Research in Professional Development
Biying WEN
Parallel Paper Session (15:00-16:30)
Session 2A: Challenges and Practices in International Collaboration
Development of a Common Research Area in Southeast Asia and Its Implications for Global Science
Yusuf OLDAC
Hong Kong’s Role in Mediating Higher Education Cooperation between Europe and China: Assumptions and Realities
Yuzhuo CAI
Conducting Analytics of Government in China’s Ambition to Become an International/Regional Education Hub
Xiao HAN
Historical Development and Global Standings: Charting the Cartography of Humanities and Social Sciences Research in East Asia
Lili YANG & Mengyang LI
Internationalisation with Chinese Characteristics: Exploring the Paradox in Students’ Experiences at Sino-foreign Cooperative Universities
Mei LAI
Parallel Paper Session (15:00-16:30)
Session 2B: Challenges and Practices in International Collaboration
When Sojourners Return: How Chinese International Master Graduates Reflexively Negotiate Their Employability Upon Returning
Mingrui ZHOU & Kun DAI
“Are we the Same?” Exploring Overseas Returnees’ Academic Identity Types in Mainland China
Zihan WANG
Transcending Borders, Forging a Global Academic Community: Perspectives from a Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Student
Jiali WANG
Re-defining the ‘International Academic’: Developing Criteria for Assessing International Credentials of Academic Staff at The Education University of Hong Kong
Bruce MACFARLANE Lihuan CHEN
Reconceptualizing Knowledge Exchange: A Case Study from Hong Kong
Chenqi LIU
Reconstructing the Leadership Landscape of Sino-Foreign Collaborative Universities: A Study on Leadership Transformation and Mind Innovation Driven by AIGC in Higher Education Reform
Qiufeng LIANG
Parallel Paper Session (15:00-16:30)
Session 2C: Institutional Governance and Management
A Reflection on University Administrators’ Self-Efficacy in Implementing a New English Curriculum
Deng HUI
Institutional Priority at the Beginning of the End of Globalization: Exploring Japanese Higher Education Responses to Geopolitics
Long Ho YIM
Negotiating Habitus and Symbolic Capital: Administrators’ Practices and Performativity in the
Field of Chinese Transnational Higher Education
Yaqiao LIU
Governing Flexible Higher Education in the Era of Microcredentials
Hakan ERGIN
Non-permanent Contract Academics’ Responses to Paradoxical Tensions Embedded in Performance Management Systems of Chinese Universities
Yue CONG
Urban Hierarchies and AI Policy in Higher Education: Insights from Beijing, Hangzhou, and Guiyang
Wanru ZHAO & Jiatui LI
Parallel Paper Session (15:00-16:30)
Session 2D: Student Engagements in International Higher Education
An Exploratory Study of ASEAN Students’ Engagement Dynamics with Local Communities in China, Japan and South Korea
Yingxin LIU; Xin LI & Lilan CHEN
Collaborating with Unknown Peers: Motivations behind Chinese Early Career Researchers’ Use of Social Media for Academic Partnerships
Wenqiang WANG
Global Talents, Local Filters: Career Pathways of International Academics in Japan
Lilan CHEN
Between Racialized and Racializing: Chinese Students’ Dual Experiences of Racism in Tanzania
Yuxiao JIANG
Reimagining Leadership through Student Agency: Conceptual Reflections from a South Korean Case
Soyoung LEE
Parallel Paper Session (15:00-16:30)
Session 2E: Cross-cultural Adaptation in International Higher Education
Implications of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in Hong Kong for Mainland Universities – The University of Hong Kong as an Example
Luping ZHANG
An Ecological Inquiry into Cultural Affinity: The Experiences of Belt and Road International Students in China
Yabing LIU, Jie XU & Kun DAI
Thinking Beyond the North-South Paradigm in Higher Education through the Pacific Asia Region
Ryan ALLEN
Cross-cultural Challenges and Opportunities in Group Collaboration between Local and Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong Universities
Mengqi FANG
An Exploration of Mainland Chinese Students’ Satisfaction with Non-academic Life in Hong Kong: The Case of Self-funded Taught Postgraduate Students at EdUHK
Fengling ZHANG