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In this section we share posts on academic writing, research projects, publication, conference and employment information. We are inviting contributions at the moment. Email: chineseedmobilities@outlook.com.

Latest postsOne fully funded project in Cultural Studies is available.

  1. A call for abstracts for The British Association for Comparative International Education (BAICE) is available. Conference dates: 5th August – Sunday 6th August 2023.
  2. Invitation to join the SERA Early Career Researcher Network (with monthly reading clubs and writing groups) is available here.
  3. A call for abstracts for 13th Biennial Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA 2023) is available here. Conference dates: November 23-26, 2023. Location: International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
  4. A call for papers for the Special Issue on Pluralizing Educational Mobilities of the journal Comparative and International Education / Éducation comparée et internationale (CIE / ECI) is available here. Full manuscript submission deadline: October 1st, 2023.
  5. Invitation to attend the 20th Gender & Education Association (GEA) International Conference is available here. Conference dates: 17-20 June, 2024. Location: Charles Sturt University, Australia.
  6. Invitation to attend a blended intensive programme: Intersectional Approach Research on Diversity and Migration Narratives (Dates: 5-9 June 2023; 90 hours, ECTS: 3) is available here.
  7. A call for abstracts for the 2nd China in Social Sciences (ChiNESS) conference (to be held on 21 June 2023) is available here. Abstract submission deadline: 20 May.
  8. A call for volunteer reviewers of 2023 AERA Annual Meeting is available here. Deadline for sign up is April 28.
  9. One fully funded PhD scholarship on “multilingualism, language-in-education policy and heritage language education” is available at Heriot-Watt University. Apply here.
  10. One fully funded project in Cultural Studies is available at University of Melbourne. This PhD project will examine media representations and/ or lived experiences of P. R. Chinese women who have graduated from western universities, including Australian universities, and returned to China (haigui).
  11. A call for papers for online seminar “Chinese Educational Mobilities in Europe and Beyond” (to be held on 3rd February 2023) is available here. Proposal submission deadline: 20th November 2022.
  12. Invitation to attend the Virtual SUPRA Programme is available here. The application deadline for the programme in the Spring is 1 October. For a spot in the Autumn, the application deadline is 1 June.
  13. A call for abstracts for ‘Conceptualising Youth Mobilities amidst Social Challenges Workshop’ is available here. Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2022.
  14. A call for abstracts for the Stavanger-Lingnan Research Symposium 2022 on International Mobility, University Governance, and Labor Market (to be held on 31 Oct-1 Nov 2022) is available here. Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July, 2022.
  15. A call for papers for Chinese Sociological Review (Special Issue on Growing Up in a Time of Uncertainty: Rethinking Education and Inequality in Chinese Societies and Beyond) is available here. Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2022.
  16. A call for papers for ‘Special Post-Graduate Issue of the Beijing International Review of Education: Demythologizing Higher Education’ is available here. Deadline for abstract submission: September 1st, 2022.
  17. Invitation to attend (and call for submissions) the 2023 Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference is available here. The conference will run between February 14-22, 2023. Deadline for submission: August 8th 2022.
  18. Invitation to attend the 3rd Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP) Annual Conference is available here. The conference is hybrid on Day 1 and online only on Day 2. Conference date: 1-2 July 2022. The in-person session registration will be closed by 17th June 2022.
  19. Invitation to attend the PhD-level course ‘Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology‘ is available here. Course dates: 12 – 14 Sep 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.
  20. A call for conference papers for the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) conference (to be held on 31st August – 1st September 2022) at University of Oxford is available here. Deadline for submission of proposals (250 words): 3rd June 2022.
  21. A call for conference papers for the 22nd IALIC Annual Conference on “Diversity and Epistemological Plurality: Thinking interculturality ‘otherwise’” (to be held on 7th-9th Sep 2022) is available here. Deadline for abstract submission: 10th May 2022.
  22. A call for contributions on ‘Educating Anthropologists for/in the Contemporary World’ is available here. Inquiries should be directed to: Dr Shuhua Chen (shuhua.chen@ntnu.no).
  23. A call for conference papers for the ‘China English’ or ‘Chinglish’ conference (to be held on 14 Jun 2022) at University of Manchester is available here. Abstract Submission Deadline: 19 April 2022.
  24. Invitation to attend the research course ‘Migration theory: perspectives on time and temporalities‘ is available here. Course dates: 20 – 28 Jun 2022.
  25. A call for abstracts for the Bourdieu, Work and Inequalities conference (to be held on 16-18 Nov 2022) is available here. Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 April 2022.
  26. A call for papers for the 2022 EAAA Annual Meeting on ‘Asia Re-Connecting? Crisis, Intimacy and Critique’ (to be held on 15-17 Oct 2022) is available here. Deadline: 31 May 2022.
  27. A call for papers for the 5th Neuchâtel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies on ‘Tensions in Migration and Mobility’ (to be held on 7-8 Jul 2022) is available here. Deadline: 31 Mar 2022.
  28. Invitation to attend the 2022 WES-CIHE Summer Institute Virtual Conference co-hosted by the world-renowned Boston College Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) and World Education Services (WES) is available. Conference dates: 1-3, June, 2022.
  29. A survey invitation from La Trobe University on ‘understanding the remote academic employment during COVID-19 pandemic’ is available here. Inquiries should be directed to: Dr Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh (j.nachatarsingh@latrobe.edu.au).
  30. A Call for Chapters for a book on ‘Diversity and Inclusiveness in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language Education‘ is available. Ddl for chapter proposal: 10 March 2022.
  31. A bilingual video (Chinese & English) on how to turn your PhD thesis into 5 journal articles by Dr Geng Wang (Tianjin University, China) is available.
  32. A call for papers for a special issue on ‘International Education in China’ is available for The Beijing Interview Review of Education journal. You can send an expression of interest to Cathy Xie Ping (cathyping.xie@bnu.edu.cn), Fazal Rizvi (frizvi@unimelb.edu.au) or Michael A. PETERS (mpeters@bnu.edu.cn) with title and abstract (300 words) before the end of February for planned publication this year.
  33. Fully-funded PhD Fellowships on China Studies 2022-2023 are available for non-Chinese nationals at Jilin University, China. Please visit here for details.
  34. The AAS-SSRC Dissertation Workshop (on Demographics, Migration and Transnational Flows, March 22-24 in Honolulu, HI)) is available for application. Deadline 5 January 2022. To apply, click here.
  35. Invitation to attend the ‘China and Higher Education: Responding to a changing world‘ online conference hosted by Manchester University and Lingnan University is available. Conference dates: 6-9 Dec 2021.
  36. A book review for ‘Exploring Diary Methods in Higher Education Research‘ is available. This is edited by Xuemeng Cao and Emily Henderson and is reviewed by Yan Chen.
  37. A survey invitation on ‘How international students make decisions about study destinations‘ is available: UK portal and Australia portal.
  38. A Call for Dictionary Entries: ‘Dictionary of Mobility and Borders‘ is available.
  39. A Special Issue CfP in the Asian Pacific Education Review on ‘Asia as Method: Toward Ontologies and Epistemologies of Difference‘ is available. Abstract submission deadline: 1 October 2021.
  40. A 4-week summer writing programme is available to help you boost your productivity this coming summer.
  41. A CfP for an online conference on ‘Infrastructures and (im)mobile lives: Interruptions, Failures, and Repairs’ to be held on 21-22 February 2022 is available. Deadline: 31 August 2021.
  42. An online conference on ‘Re-worlding Chinese transnationalisms’ will be held on 26-27 August 2021. Download programme here.
  43. A video providing advice on ‘getting an academic job in the UK as an international student‘ by Dr Cora Lingling Xu (Durham University) is available.
  44. COST Actions opportunities for research on international student mobility is available.
  45. A Chinese video on practising meditation for graduate students and academics is available. This video is by Dr Jinting Wu (heartfulness meditation trainer) and Dr Cora Lingling Xu (interviewer).
  46. A symposium on ‘East Asian Identities in the Era of Global Mobilities’ on 15 May 2021 is available here. Register here. Organised by OISE, University of Toronto.
  47. A webinar on ‘Youth mobilities in East Asia’ on 11th May 2021 is available here. Register here. Speakers: Prof Johanna Waters and Jiexiu Chen. Discussant: Dr Cora Xu.
  48. A Call for Applications: 2021 Summer School in Applied Social Science Research Methods (Advanced Courses) in New York University Shanghai is available here. Dates: July 15th-31st, 2021.
  49. A CfP for a special issue in Journal of International Students on “International Students in China: Teaching, Learning and Management in the COVID-19 Pandemic” is available here. Deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2021.
  50. A Call for Research Participants for a project titled: ‘COVID and Chinese and East Asian University Students in the UK: Safety, Security, and Communication’ is available here.
  51. A CfP for a special issue in Transitions on ‘Politics, Perils and Privileges: Immobilities in the Time of Global Pandemics’, edited by Peidong Yang and Michel Baas, is available.
  52. A Call for Abstracts for the Chinese Educational Research Association (CERA) Annual Conference 2021 is available. Deadline: 26 April 2021
  53. A Chinese video on how to reply to journal reviewers’ comments is available here.
  54. A book series on ‘New Mobilities in Asia‘ by Amsterdam University Press may be of interest to colleagues thinking of writing  a research monograph or an edited volume in Chinese education mobilities.
  55. Survey invitation–a survey on ‘foreign born/raised Chinese in China‘ is calling for participants if you fit the criteria. Join to win ¥200 RMB each at the completion of this survey.
  56. A free online conference on ‘Rurality and Access to Higher Education: An International Symposium’ on 31st March 2021 is available. Register here.
  57. A Call for Abstracts by the Cambridge Chinese Education Forum is available here. The theme is ‘Post-pandemic: Change Education for the Better’. Deadline: 10 April 2021. Abstracts to be sent to camccef@gmail.com.
  58. A CFP on ‘The Bordering Process of Transnational Migrants in Urban Spaces with/without the pandemic of COVID-19’ for the RGS IBG 2021 annual conference is available here. Deadline: 1 March 2021.
  59. New Chinese-language channels that provide advice on academic job searches and academic writing and publishing are available on Youtube ‘Dr Xu Gazing at Academia‘ and on Bilibili: ‘许博士看学术‘.
  60. A CfP for the CESHK (Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong) 2021 Spring Annual Conference on ‘Geopolitics of Knowledge and Education Policy’ is available here. Dates: Friday 12th and Saturday 13th March 2021.
  61. A CfP for a Special Issue on ‘The new geopolitics of international higher education’ in Globalisation, Societies and Education is available here. Deadline for submitting your 500-word abstract is January 15, 2021. Abstracts can be sent to Hannah Moscovitz hm641@cam.ac.uk and Emma Sabzalieva esabz@yorku.ca.
  62. A CfP on ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international student mobility’ for a panel at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference to be held in Luxembourg on 7-9th July 2021 is available here. Deadline: 20 Nov 2020.
  63. A call for participation on a project titled ‘International students’ experienced of UK universities during COVID-19′ is available here. Contact Cristina Costa: cristina.costa@durham.ac.uk, or Huaping Li: huaping_li@shnu.edu.cn for more details.
  64. A Call for Nominations for Best Paper Award and Best Graduate Student Paper Award by the East Asia SIG at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2021 conference is available here. Deadline: 15 December 2020.
  65. A CfP for a Special Issue on ‘Teacher Emotions in Greater China’ to be published in Beijing International Review of Education is available here. Please send an abstract of 300 words to Dr. Kwok Kuen Tsang by 30 November 2020 at kktsang@bnu.edu.cn.
  66. A survey invitation from Nanyang Technological University for Mandarin speakers only is available here. Inquiries should be directed to: mbcng@ntu.edu.sg.
  67. Ten awards are available for application for ‘New Voices 2020: Awards for outstanding master’s and doctoral research on mobility’. Application deadline: 1 Dec 2020.
  68. A video on academic writing and publishing experiences for early career researchers, conducted by Dr Yang Hu (Lancaster University) for the British Educational Research Association Early Career Network is available here. Lots of useful tips and suggestions from Dr Hu.
  69. Call for participants: Education and Migration: [Online] Publication and Grant Writing Workshop for Asia-based Early Career Researchers. Dates: 14th to 18th December 2020, 16:00 to 17:30 (GMT +8) each day. Please submit your expression of interest here (Google Form). Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, until 16 November 2020.
  70. A special issue CfP on ‘Digitalisation of International Education’ in Journal of Studies in International Education is available here. Deadline: 1 Feb 2021.
  71. Two travel grants are available at the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad (MWS) for a period of research of up to three months, for the purposes of fieldwork, archive and/or library research in China, preferably in Peking. Deadline of application: 16 Oct 2020.
  72. A workshop on ‘doctoral mobilities interrupted’ is available for registration here. Date and time: Wed, 7 October 2020, 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM BST.
  73. ‘The International China Studies Virtual Events Clearing-House’ hosted by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is available here. You can get information about past and future online research seminars on different aspects of Chinese studies.
  74. Three Doctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1017) are available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. If you are interested in conducting your PhD research on education mobilities (fieldwork in China or elsewhere encouraged), please contact Professor Heidi Østbø Haugen.
  75. A four-week ‘Writing on the Go’ writing workshop on boosting your productivity is available here.
  76. A CfP for a Special Issue on ‘Intersectionality and education work during COVID-19 transitions’ in Gender, Work & Organization is available here. Deadline for abstract submission: 10 Nov 2020.
  77. A Call for Abstracts on ‘Mobility, Time and Political Possibilities‘–the Deconstructed Diasporic Workshop is available here. Deadline: 19 Oct 2020.
  78. A Call for Nominations (Best Article, Best Book and Best Dissertation) for the CIES Higher Education SIG Awards is available here. Deadline: 12 November 2020.
  79. A CfP ‘Immobilities-A New Normal?’ for the 12th ICAS in Kyoto, Japan on 24-27 August 2021 is available here. Deadline for abstract: 21 September 2020.
  80. A prestigious PhD scholarship is available for the ‘Civic Sinoburbia? New Chinese Migrants and Everyday Citizenship’ project funded through the Australian Research Council. Details here. Application deadline: 30 September 2020.
  81. An AERA graduate student fellowship and research grant on rural education is available here. Deadline of application: 15 Sept 2020.
  82. A Call for Papers is available for the 3rd International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA) Annual Conference on November 20-21, 2020.  Deadline for Submissions: October 2, 2020. Conference Venue: Virtual.
  83. A Call for Papers on ‘China and Higher Education: Navigating Uncertain Futures’ is available here. Please email abstracts of 300 words to ChinaHE@manchester.ac.uk by 7 September 2020.
  84. A Call for Applications for an emerging scholars program on “Migration Matters: Ethnicity, Race, Labor and Politics across Borders” at Boston University is available here. Deadline: 10 August 2020.
  85. A Call for Participants on ‘Students/graduates form Belt-and-Road countries in China: migration network and career trajectory’ is available here. Contact Dr Mengwei Tu at mtu702@outlook.com.
  86. A CfP for a Special Issue on ‘Equity-oriented Teacher Education’ in Beijing International Review of Education is available here. Proposal Deadline: 1 Sept 2020.
  87. A four-week summer-writing workshop on boosting your productivity is available here.
  88. A book series with Amsterdam University Press is inviting book proposals on ‘Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies’ is available here.
  89. A Call for Papers on ‘Coronavirus and its Impact on International Students: International Education in the Time of Global Disruptions’ is available here. Deadline for abstract submission: 1 Aug 2020.
  90. A call for research participants on Chinese academics supervising doctoral students is available here. Contact Lu Bing (b.lu@warwick.ac.uk).
  91. A call for survey participants on ‘Chinese higher education governance during the COVID-19 crisis’ (新冠肺炎期间高等教育管理的政策分析和学生视角) from a student’s perspective is available here. Access the survey here.
  92. A call for workshop papers on ‘Racialisation and Social Boundary-Making in Times of COVID-19’ is available here. Deadline: 30 May 2020. Submit your proposal to a.camenisch@uva.nl and e.s.c.pulford@uva.nl
  93. A STAR Webinar on COVID-19 (Public Health and Education in Transnational Society) is available here. Date: Apr 30, 2020, 10:00 AM (New York), 3:00 PM (London), 7:30 PM (Mumbai), 6:00 PM (Dubai), 4:00 PM (Paris) 10:00 PM (Singapore). Register here.
  94. A survey on factors impacting Chinese academic returnees’ research experiences is available here. Please access the survey here.
  95. A survey on Chinese academic returnees’ rationale, work and living conditions is available here. Please access the survey here.
  96. Drama workshops available for students from Chinese backgrounds in Leeds Beckett University. Details here. Dates: 4 April and 5 April 2020. Register by 8 March 2020.
  97. A Call for Papers for the 3rd Annual Conference of the International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA) is available here. Deadline: 8 May 2020.
  98. The Overseas Young Chinese Forum is pleased to announce that the 2020 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship is open to application from graduate students in humanities, social science and policy studies in a U.S. or Canadian university to conduct fieldwork in China for their thesis projects. Refer to details here.
  99. A Call for Chapters for ‘Applying Mobile Technologies to Chinese Language Learning’ to be published by IGI Global’ is available here. Send chapter proposal to Prof Xiaoge Xu (xiaoge.xu@nottingham.edu.cn) by 15 February 2020.
  100. A Call for Participants on ‘Chinese Master’s students’ job seeking and employment’ conducted by Xianan Hu (Durham University) is available here. Complete the questionnaire here.
  101. A Call for Papers on ‘Diaspora and Education’ for the International Studies in Sociology of Education (ISSE) is available here. Deadline for abstract: 15 January 2020, to be sent to Dr Reza Gholami.
  102. A Call for Papers on ‘Resilience of Chinese children, parents, and educators: A powerful response to “lazy inclusivism”’ in International Journal of Disability, Development and Education (IJDDE) is available here. Contact Dr Guanglun Michael Mu (m.mu@qut.edu.au) for more details.
  103. A Call for Papers on ‘Emerging and (re)shaping higher education “identities” in China’ for a Special Issue in the International Journal of Chinese Education is available here. Deadline: 1 May 2020. Contact guest editors: Dr Kun Dai (kdai@pku.edu.cn) and Prof Mei Tian (temmytian@mail.xjtu.edu.cn).
  104. A Call for Papers on ‘Mobility and education in Asia: an interdisciplinary discussion?’ for the Asian Studies Association of Australia conference, 6-9 July 2020, Melbourne, Australia is available here. Send abstracts of around 200 words to Zhenjie Yuan < zjyuan@gzhu.edu.cn> and Vickie Zhang <vzhang@student.unimelb.edu.au> by Monday 28 October, 2019.
  105. A Call for research participants on Inner Speech and Life in the UK as a Chinese student can be found here.
  106. A Call for Research Participants on Chinese Academics Overseas could be found here. Please contact Dr Bingyu Wang (wangby29@mail.sysu.edu.cn; wusy36@mail2.sysu.edu.cn) for more details.
  107. A Call for Collaborators on Vocational Ed for Non-traditional First-generation University Students is available here. Please contact Weiping Wang at 17110460003@fudan.edu.cn.
  108. A Call for Papers on ‘Im|mobile lives in turbulent times: Methods and Practices of Mobilities Research’ is available here. Send an abstract of 300 words to Sharon3.wilson@northumbria.ac.uk by December 18th 2019. Acceptance confirmation January 14th 2020.
  109. A Call for Research Participants on Work Place Inclusion Experience of BAME Millennial Professionals is available here. Email Dr Minjie Cai m.cai@greenwich.ac.uk for more details.
  110. A Call for Research Participants on Chinese International Students’ Health Experiences in the UK is available here.
  111. Master of Research opportunities on Chinese Diaspora available here at Western Sydney University. Supervisor Dr Bonnie Pang. For further details, refer here.
  112. A Call for Papers on ‘Re-worlding Chinese Transnationalism’ is available here. Date 2-4 June 2020. Deadline 10 Nov 2019. Send your paper abstract (200-300 words) and bio (150 words) to Nonie May (nonie.may[at]unimelb.edu.au).
  113. A Call for Papers on ‘China’s Recent Strategic Inroads in Reshaping Higher Education and Research across Asia’ for a panel in the AAS 2020 in Boston is available here. Deadline 22 July 2019. Send your 250-word abstract and one-page CV to armijo@gmail.com.
  114. A Call for Papers on ‘Childhood in China’s Borderlands’ for a session in the AAS 2020 in Boston is available here. Deadline 15 July 2019. Send your abstract to shannon.ward@ubc.ca.
  115. A Call for Papers on ‘China and Higher Education: Knowledge diplomacy and the role of higher education in Chinese international relations’ at University of Manchester is available here. Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2019 to ChinaHE@manchester.ac.uk. Register here.
  116. A Call for Submissions for The Cambridge Researcher blog is available here. This is particularly relevant to Network members who are postgraduate students at Cambridge University.
  117. A Conference on ‘Students in Changing Higher Education Landscapes’ to be held on 14 June 2019 at the University of Surrey (UK) is open for registration here. There are some interesting papers relevant to Chinese education mobilities. For details, refer here.
  118. A Call for Papers for a Special Issue on ‘Conservatism and Education’ of the Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung 26 can be found here. The deadline is 30 June 2019.
  119. A Call for Papers for a Special Issue on ‘Experiences and Mobility of overseas Chinese Students and Scholars’ in Chinese Education and Society can be found here. The deadline is 31 July 2019.
  120. A Call for Papers is posted here about a conference on vocational education to be held on 7-9 June 2019 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in China.
  121. A conference on the method of using diaries in social science research could be of interest to NRCEM scholars. For details, please refer here. Date: 10 May 2019. Venue: Warwick University.
  122. A Call for Contributors for a Special Issue on ‘International Students in China (Chinese Edition)’ in Journal of International Students can be found here. The deadline is 30 June 2019.
  123. A Call for Papers for a Special Issue in the journal COMPARE can be found here. The topic is on: ‘What is an international student represented to be? Critical constructions from across Europe, ethical silences and future opportunities’.
  124. A scholarship opportunity is available at the University of Warwick for residents of mainland China and Hong Kong wanting to pursue an MA in Global Ed and International Development. Please visit here.
  125. Mr Wayne Furlong reflects on ‘The sameness of difference‘ by drawing on his extensive teaching experiences working with Chinese students across Australia, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
  126. Dr Sin Yee Koh is seeking contacts and participants for a project on a Chinese international branch campus in Malaysia. Check the details here.
  127. Dr Cora Lingling Xu, founder and  director of this network, shares how she dealt with journal rejections as an early career researcher.
  128. Dr Cora Lingling Xu, founder and  director of this network, discusses how she balanced writing her PhD thesis, writing for publication, and gaining teaching experience as a PhD candidate.

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