Dr Jingyi Li

Senior Lecturer in International and Comparative Education/ Senior Tutor (PGT)

Biography

Background

I joined the University of Edinburgh in 2015. Prior to this, I worked in a local NGO in Scotland with ethnic minority children and their families. My research interests lie in international education, education policy, curriculum development and citizenship education. 

Qualifications

PhD in Education (University of Edinburgh, 2012) 

MSc in Childhood Studies (University of Edinburgh, 2006)

MA in Social Policy and Administration (University of Nottingham, 2005) 

Postgraduate teaching

 

  • Education Policy and the Politics of Education 
  • The Curriculum: Context, Change and Development

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

  • Curriculum development 
  • Student experience and wellbeing  
  • International education policy 
  • immigrant children and adults' education experience 

Current PhD students supervised

 

  • Jingbo Hua, Title: Non-Governmental Organisations in Local Governance: A Case Study of Rural Education in China  
  • Lianya Qiu, Title: Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Curriculum in Complementary Schools – a Comparative Case Study of Polish and Chinese Complementary Schools in Edinburgh  
  • Yue Zhu, Title: Identity Development of Gifted Students in Mainland China  
  • Yuemiao Ma, Title: Citizenship Education Embedded in Model United Nations: an Explorative Study on Chinese Secondary School Students’ Participative Experience  
  • Jiyuan Song, Title: Intergenerational differences in parenting: A qualitative study of first- and 1.5/second-generation Chinese immigrant families in Scotland  
  • Huaiyuan Huang, Title: Citizenship Education and Senses of Belonging: The Ethnic Koreans in Northeast China

Past PhD students supervised

  • Hang Lu, Title: Foreign Language Education Policies and the Disparity between Urban and Rural Compulsory English Education in China – The Influence of Neoliberalism  
  • Chen Zhang, Title: Recognition and Misrecognition: experiences of UK Chinese postgraduates after their return home
  • Sarah Austin, Title: Teacher Development in Refugee Contexts  
  • Dorothea Vincent, The United Nations' relationship with civil society: development of the 2nd Charter 'The united peoples' and the United Nations' principled decision-making policy through the Naber model 

Research summary

  • Curriculum Development 
  • Education Policy
  • International Education and Development 
  • Citizenship Education 

Project activity

2023 Learning and Teaching Innovation Fund. Move and Learn: 5K per day challenge (Co-I, £1480)

2023 Learning and Teaching Innovation Fund. Student employability enhancement programme development (PI, £1824.28)

2022 Learning and Teaching Innovation Fund. Programme curriculum and student employability (PI, £781.40) 

2021 SRA consultancy project. University applications : understanding BAME pupils’ and students’ experience (Co-I, £14250)

2021 Student Experience Grant. We connect the classroom with the world: co-create our hybrid curriculum (PI, £4750)

2021 Learning and Teaching Innovation Fund. Pedagogical approaches in hybrid classrooms in MHSES (PI, £1050)

2019 Student Experience Grant. Multilingual STEM programme for primary school pupils and parents in Edinburgh (PI, £2204)

2019 Seedcorn Research Grant. The educational impact of conducting Model UN Conferences in Scottish Schools (PI, £797)

2018 British Council Leadership Development Grant. Exchange programme between MHSES and the Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University in Ukraine (PI, £6000)  

2017 Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21) and SKT Education and Beyond. 21st century core skills for Chinese students, Collaborative project with Beijing Normal University (Co-I)

2015 Qatar Foundation. A global education policy review on 21st century skills and competences”, Collaborative project with Beijing Normal University (Co-I)

Conference details

  • “Students’ perspective on co-creating curriculum in international classrooms”, poster presented at The University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2023
  •  "Are we partners in the co-construction of knowledge? - Students’ perspective on using critical pedagogy in international classrooms", Paper presented at the British Association for International and Comparative Education 2022 Conference, 13th -15th September, University of Edinburgh
  • “Creating global citizens: a comparative analysis of citizenship education discourses in Scotland and China”, Panel, 2019 East Asian Studies Conference, 2-4 September 2019, University of Edinburgh
  • “China in a global education policy field: the case of the national framework of core skills”, Paper presented at the BAICE 2018 Conference, 12-14 September 2018, University of York 
  • “Raising my child (ren) in Scotland – Perspectives of Chinese new immigrant parents”, Invited presentation at the North Edinburgh Community Conference 2018, 30 June 2018, University of Edinburgh
  • “Globalising citizenship education: a comparative analysis of citizenship education discourses in Scotland and China”, Paper presented at the UKFIET Conference 2017, 5-7 September 2017, University of Oxford
  • “Parental involvement of ethnic minority families in Scotland: A Chinese Perspective”, Paper presented at the British Association of International and Comparative Education 2016 Conference, 12-14 September 2016, University of Nottingham
  • “The role of key players in educational policy making – the case of Chinese Primary Education”, Paper presented at the British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, 3-5 September 2012, University of Oxford
  • “The role of intellectuals in Chinese educational policy making”, Paper presented at the China Postgraduate Network Annual Conference, 18-19 June 2012, University of Edinburgh
  • "The transmission of cultural values in the production of EFL textbooks for the Chinese primary curriculum.”, Paper presented at the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 15-17 November 2010, Madrid
  • "A research study on the development of English textbooks as medium for the transmission of cultural values- the case of English textbooks in Chinese primary schools.", Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 1-4 September 2010, University of Warwick
  • “How textbooks speak to us? --- A study of the production of English textbooks for primary education as a cultural value transmission channel in the People's Republic of China", Poster presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 1-4 September 2010, University of Warwick
  • "Studying elites: eight interviews in the educational field in China", Paper presented in British Association of International and Comparative Education Student Conference, 15 January 2010, University of Sussex

Invited speaker

  • May 2024: Invited discussant, Seminar “Academic Misconduct in Higher Education in the era of AI”, Peking University.
  • April 2023: Invited panellist, 'Critical insights into Chinese engagement in UK higher education', Joint event by Higher Education Research Group and the CEID research group
  • April 2018, Invited panellist, Human Library Panel Session: Conversations on Global and Local Educational Topics, AERA Annual Meeting
  • April 2015, Invited speaker, Staff development seminar “Globalisation and Education Policy – the Case of Scotland”, Beijing Normal University

Organiser

2022, Conference Co-Chair, British Association for International and Comparative Education Conference 

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