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About

I have obtained my PhD degree at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in the Department of Education Studies. My doctoral project, supervised by Professor Emily Henderson and Dr Emma Williams, investigated how returned academics with foreign doctorates conduct doctoral supervision in their home countries. I have therefore developed a pround interest in mobility scholarship and doctoral education research.

I have been spearheading the Best-Practice Toolkit Co-creation Project Series as part of the inclusive education scheme in the Faculty of Arts since 2023. I have also been providing academic leadership and mentorship to the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Cafe Student Support Scheme in the Faculty of Arts. I coordinate the URSS sessions for the Faculty of Arts student.

I have supervised/mentored nearly 30 student projects to complete on various programmes and have obtained the PGA course Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Award (Distinction) at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, presenting a case study of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS).

Interests

I am keen in faciliating effective education pathways for students to navigate between different levels of study at university. I am currently serving as Evaluation Co-Lead on the two-year programme Long Term Collective Student Research Programme (LoCoR), sponsored by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Education Fund, aimed at co-developing and piloting a new model of project-based teaching that empowers students from different years and disciplines to engage in long-term, collective, and interdisciplinary research.

I have a proven track record of fostering positive research culture and have been committed to diversity and equity within higher education. Particularly, I am interested in higher education policies and research, critical theories, interdisciplinary approach and equitable knowledge construction. I was the Project Lead of the SRHE-funded project ''. I have been contributing to the Research England and OfS funded four-year project '' (EDEPI) as Research Fellow. The project, piloted in 2023-2024 across three partnership UK institutions, aims to remove barriers to doctoral education for racially minoritised groups.

Publications

Special Issue:

Qi, J., Nerad, M., Jacobsen, M., Lu, B., , Higher Education Quarterly (forthcoming)

Articles:

Lu, B., (under review). Migrant supervisor development and the (re)negotiation of supervisory norms, submitted to Higher Education Research and Development.

Lu, B., (under review). Polycentric academic careers: overseas doctoral mobility and returnee academics in China, submitted to Studies in Higher Education.

Lu, B., (forthcoming). How supervisors perceive doctoral attrition as taboo, Higher Education Quarterly.

Lu, B. and Henderson, E. (2024). . Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. DOI: 10.1108/SGPE-03-2023-0022

Song, H and Lu. B., (2023). Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice, 3, pp. 37-46.

Lu, B., Sinclair, B, and Affejee, Y. (2023). Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice, 3, pp.

Lu. B. (2022). 'Challenging policy barriers to doctoral supervision: qualifying as a supervisor and recruiting students in Chinese research universities (chapter 4). In Österlind & Denicolo (Eds.), Doctoral Education as if People Matter - Critical Issues for the Future. Brill.

Book Reviews:

Lu. B. (2023). Book Reviews ‘.Educational Review.

Lu. B. (2022). Book Reviews '.Higher Education.

Lu. B. (2021). Book Reviews ''.Work, Employment and Society: Sage Journals.

Lu, B. (2020). Book Reviews ''.Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Blog Posts:

Lu, B., Smith-McGloin, R.& Foster, S. (2026). . Invited blog essay for SRHE.

Lu, B. & Mao, F. (2025). . Blog essay for the Hidden Curriculum for Doctoral Education Blog.

Lu, B. & Friend, K. (2024). ‘. Blog essay for Nottingham Trent University Institute of Education Blog.

Lu, B. (2023). Blog essay for Conference Inference.

Lu, B. (2021). . Invited blog essay for Conference Inference.

Lu, B. (2020). . Blog essay for Supervising PhDs.

Lu, B. (2020). ‘. Blog essay for SRHE.

Teaching

• 2023 - 2024 Active Bystander Tutor, Dean of Students' Office
• 2022 - 2023 Social Mobility Research Student Research Hub mentor, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Widening Participation
• 2021- 2024 Dissertation Supervisor, Department of Education Studies, University of ¹û¶³´«Ã½

Academic service

• Student Success Sub-Committee Arts Faculty Rep

• IATL Management & Education Committee Arts Faculty Rep

Academic membership