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Biography
Dr. Tingting Yuan is an Assistant Professor in Education and Teacher Development in the School of Education. She has a PhD in Comparative Education (University of Bristol, UK), MA in Comparative Education and BA in Education Management (Beijing Normal University, China).
Prior to joining the University of Nottingham in 2022, Tingting was a Senior Lecturer in International Education and course leader for BA International Development and Education and BA Education Studies at Bath Spa University. Before that she was a Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University. She was a former ordinary member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) executive committee.
Currently Tingting is a co-convenor of the Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). She is an editor of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Educational Research. She is also the editorial review board member of Research Papers in Education and Journal of Global Education and Research.
Tingting is accepting new PhD proposals.
Teaching Summary
Tingting is the course leader of MA Education (online). She is also teaching BA Education modules, such as Purpose of Education, Education beyond borders, and Place, Mobility and Space in Education.… read more
Research Summary
Tingting's research is in the field of international and comparative education. Her doctoral research was on 'Donor Logic of Chinese Educational Aid to Africa', which included fieldwork undertaken in… read more
Tingting is the course leader of MA Education (online). She is also teaching BA Education modules, such as Purpose of Education, Education beyond borders, and Place, Mobility and Space in Education. Tingting supervises master dissertations for both face to face and online MA courses.
Current Research
Tingting's research is in the field of international and comparative education. Her doctoral research was on 'Donor Logic of Chinese Educational Aid to Africa', which included fieldwork undertaken in Tanzania and China. Her broader research interests include globalisation, public goods and education, international aid of education, China-Africa educational cooperation, international higher education policy and other educational issues within the complexities of global political economy. She has been invited to present papers at several international conferences such as the World Congress of Comparative Education (WCCES) and annual conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Currently she is interested in examining Sustainable Development Goals and alternative theories and practice in higher education and teacher training in developing contexts.
Her current research students are Ayoola Abimbola, Tianyin Liu and Ning Ma.