Name

Cora Lingling Xu

E-mail Address

lx227@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

MA Assessment in Education, King’s College London, UK
BEd (English), Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

• Association for Asian Studies
• Comparative and International Education Society
• European Educational Research Association
• British Chevening Scholars (Hong Kong) Association

Supervisor

Professor Diane Reay

Editorial Affiliations

Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research (Assistant Editor)

Profile

Cora's PhD research explores identity constructions of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong universities. Drawing on her PhD research, Cora has published at the European Educational Research Journal and the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. One of Cora's papers won the Best Paper Award (Emerging Researchers) at the 2013 European Conference of Educational Research.
Since 2013, Cora has supervised Sociology of Education Dissertations, Research and Investigation Projects and a range of papers on the Education Tripos at Cambridge. She has also served as a teaching assistant in various courses for the MPhil and MEd Research Methods classes, thesis writing workshops and the Elective on Bourdieu’s theories in educational research.
Previously Cora was a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong, specialising in Teaching English as a Second Language, English Drama, Public Speaking and English Debate.

Research Topics and Projects

• China Studies
• Academic Migration
• Transnational Higher Education Collaboration
• Social Identities
• Social Theories, including Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice

Publications

Xu, C. L. (2015a). Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China-Hong Kong experience. European Educational Research Journal, 14 (1), 65-73.

Xu, C. L. (2015b). When the “Hong Kong Dream” meets the “anti-mainlandisation discourse”: Mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 44 (3), 15-47.