About

I have obtained my MA and PhD degrees at University of Warwick 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 been spearheading the Best-Practice Toolkit Co-creation Project as part of the inclusive education scheme in the Faculty of Arts since 2023. I have been providing academic leadership and mentorship to the Study Cafe Student Support Scheme in the Faculty of Arts.

Having supervised 20+ student projects to complete on various programmes (e.g. URSS), I have been awarded the PGA course Interdisciplinary Pedagogy provided by IATL with Distinction.

Interests

I am interested in exploring social discourse with an orientation of subjectivity in understanding mobile individuals' transnational history. I apply multiple scholarship to understand the emergence, formation and negotiation of individuals' identities. I see personal accounts as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with life experiences.

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, poststructuralist theories, interdisciplinary approach and equitable knowledge construction. I was the Principal Investigator of the SRHE-funded project 'Migrant Supervisors Learn to Supervise in UK Institutions - an Inclusive Perspective'. I have been serving as a Research Fellow in Education in Nottingham Trent University, contributing to the Research England and OfS funded four-year project 'Equity in Doctoral Education through Partnership and Innovation' (EDEPI). The project, piloted in 2023-2024 across three partnership UK institutions, aims to remove barriers to doctoral education for racially minoritised groups.

I am also interested in establishing curriculum coherence to faciliate effective 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 Warwick 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.

Publications

Special Issue:

Qi, J., Nerad, M., Jacobsen, M., Lu, B., Taboos in Doctoral Education Across Cultures, Higher Education Quarterly (scheduled to be published in 2025)

Articles:

Lu, B. and Henderson, E. (2024). Recording and researching doctoral supervision meetings: reconceptualising authenticity in supervision research. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. DOI: 10.1108/SGPE-03-2023-0022

Song, H and Lu. B., (2023). From Learning to Teaching: Incorporating Cultural Familiarity to Enhance GTA Support for International Students' Learning. Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice, 3, pp. 37-46.

Lu, B., Sinclair, B, and Affejee, Y. (2023). Designing and evaluating the Supervision workshop series – embracing overlapping and contradictory views. 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 ‘Navigating Your International Doctoral Experience (and Beyond).Educational Review.

Lu. B. (2022). Book Reviews 'The role of doctorate in knowledge production: an institutional perspective'.Higher Education.

Lu. B. (2021). Book Reviews 'Transnational migration and the new subjects of work'.Work, Employment and Society: Sage Journals.

Lu, B. (2020). Book Reviews 'Asia inside out: itinerant people'.Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Blog Posts:

Lu, B. & Friend, K. (2024). ‘Facilitating Inclusive Postgraduate Admissions Through Establishing a Community of Practice’. Blog essay for Nottingham Trent University Institute of Education Blog.

Lu, B. (2023). ‘Purposeful travel and unplanned routines in transnational academic conference’. Blog essay for Conference Inference.

Lu, B. (2021). 'Missing objects and silenced voices: power relations in online conferences'. Invited blog essay for Conference Inference.

Lu, B. (2020). ‘Learning from our supervision meetings: how experience should be valued’. Blog essay for Supervising PhDs.

Lu, B. (2020). ‘Supervising and assessing ‘the new generation of researchers’: the power of posing questions and sharing perspectives’. Blog essay for SRHE.

Teaching

• 2023 - 2024 Active Bystander Tutor, Dean of Students' Office
• 2022 - 2023 Social Mobility Research Student Research Hub mentor, Warwick Widening Participation
• 2021- 2024 Dissertation Supervisor, Department of Education Studies, University of Warwick

Academic service

• Student Success Sub-Committee Arts Faculty Rep

• IATL Management & Education Committee Arts Faculty Rep

Academic membership