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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:

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Ying Yang

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Kun Dai, Xiaoyuan Li, Guanglun Michael Mu

3.

Yang Hang

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Pengfei Pan & Guanglun Michael Mu

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

Yaqiao Liu, Congcong Xing, & Kun Dai

6.

Carola Bauschke-Urban & Dorina Dedgjoni

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Guanglun Michael Mu, Hannah Soong, & Wanwan Zhou

8.

Qiong Li

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Franziska Lessky

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derria byrd

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Benjamin H. Nam, Alexander Scott English, and Yuanyuan Liu