Profile

Bing is an Assistant Professor (teaching-focused) in the Faculty of Arts and Associate Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at University of Warwick. Bing is currently serving as the Director of Student Experience and Progression in the Faculty of Arts. Bing has been spearheading the Best-Practice Toolkit Co-creation Project as part of the inclusive education scheme in the Faculty of Arts and has recently produced the report for 2023 Inclusive Education Best-practice Toolkit 2023. Bing has also been providing academic leadership and mentorship to the Study Cafe Student Support Scheme in the Faculty of Arts.

Interest

Bing is generally interested in pedagogical development/innovation, inclusive education, supervision, co-creation and interdisciplinarity. Bing has supervised 20+ student projects to complete on various programmes and developed a profound interest in mentorship, co-creation and inclusion.

Bing's doctoral project, supervised by Dr Emily Henderson and Dr Emma Williams in the Department of Education Studies at Warwick, investigated how returned academics with foreign doctorates conduct doctoral supervision in their home countries. Bing's research focuses on social discourse with an orientation of subjectivity in understanding academics with transnational history. Bing adopts poststructuralist and mobilities scholarship as theoretical resources and uses narrative enquiry as approach to understand the emergence, formation and negotiation of individuals' social identities. Bing sees personal accounts as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with life experiences.

Research

Bing has years of experience in designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative methodologies for research projects, as well as analysing complex data sets. As a member of Warwick Research Culture Enabler Network, Bing has a proven track record of fostering positive research culture and has been committed to diversity and equity within higher education.

Bing has been recently awarded the SRHE Newer Researcher Award 2023 as one of the three prize winners in the UK and is leading a project on 'Migrant supervisors learn to supervise in UK institutions - an inclusive perspective' as PI. This project is mentored by Professor Gina Wisker in School of Management at Bath University.

From June 2024, Bing has served as a Research Fellow in Education based in Nottingham Trent University, contributing to the 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.

Publications

Special Issue Guest Editor:

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

Journal Articles: 

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

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.

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. 

Sinclair, B. and Lu, B., 2022. Setting up the Superb-Vision Network: Establishing a dispersed learning community’. Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice, 2, pp.110-117.

Book Chapters:

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. (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 (Bing Lu)'. 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.

Selected Academic Presentations

July, 2023 CeMoRe 20th Anniversary Colloquium, The Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University (awarded ECR speaker funded by Lancaster University) 

June, 2023 The Future of Higher Education: Competition, Collaboration and the Global Good, International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM) Conference, University of Bath, UK – ‘The unquestioned supervision approach: learning from transnational pedagogies’ (Warwick ECR funding)

June, 2023 UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick – ‘STEM supervision pedagogies in Higher Education: a disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective’

Dec, 2022 SRHE International Conference 2022, 'Mobilities in Higher Education' (online), UK. ‘There and back again: Transnational mobilities of returnee doctoral supervisors with overseas doctorates’  

Nov, 2022 Symposium on Gendered Academic Mobilities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (invited speaker funded by Swiss National Foundation). ‘Women doctoral supervisors in Chinese research universities: the nexus of academic mobility, career stage and gender’ 

Mar, 2022 8^th Postgraduate Supervision Conference, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. ‘Recording and researching doctoral supervision: accessing an ‘impossible space’

Academic service and Teaching

Feb. 2024 Review Panel on Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS), Dean of Students' Office

2023 - 2024 Active Bystander Tutor, CVEP, Dean of Students' Office

2022 - 2023 Social Mobility Research Student Research Hub mentor, Warwick Widening Participation

Nov. 2022- Review Panel on Warwick Institutional Teaching and Learning Review (ITLR) 2023

2021- 2024 Dissertation Supervisor in DES, University of Warwick

Nov.2021-Founder of the 'Superb-version networkLink opens in a new window' sponsored by Warwick Doctoral College

2021- 2023 Guest Lecturer on various PhD/MA modules, Department of Education Studies

2019- 2020 Student representative in DES on the PGR SSLC

Widening Participation and Outreach

Dec. 2022-2023 Research assistant for Australia Council of Educational Research (London office) on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 project, working in three schools (Leicester/London/Basildon)

Jun. 2022- Teaching Assistant at Sherbourne Fields Special School, Coventry

Aug. 2021- Teaching Assistant at Sutton Trust Summer School (STSS), online

Academic Association Membership

2023- United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE)

2019- International Doctoral Education Research Network (IDERN)

2019- Society of Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

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