Understanding the Health and Educational Experiences of Chinese International Students Critical Perspectives and Empirical Research

Bonnie Pang is Associate Professor at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. Her sociological research focuses on the Chinese diaspora and contemporary issues of diversity and inclusion in sport, health, and education. Bonnie was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from 2019 to 2020. She is the author of four monographs, and has published widely in leading journals across sport, leisure, and education.

Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at Adelaide University. As a sociologist of education, Michael undertakes research on international student mobility. His work has generated over 130 publications, been cited by the OECD, featured in major national and international media outlets including ABC and Times Higher Education, used to inform international student recruitment, and commercialised for capacity building. Michael is the Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge book series Bourdieu and Education in Asia Pacific.

Xiao Lan is the director of Center for Research in Education in Asia and a professor in the Department of Education, University of Bath, United Kingdom. Her research interests encompass ideological, sociocultural-cognitive and policy perspectives on language learning, with a particular focus on children’s multilingual education and biliteracy development. She has examined bi/multilingual community-home-school contexts in the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Singapore on topics of curriculum policy, language-in-educational policy, and family language policy. Her publications have appeared in leading academic journals such as Language Policy; International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; and Language and Education.