Contributors

Xu Yi-chong

Professor of Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University

Professor of Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University

Xavier Medina Vidal

Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Arlington

Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Arlington My research centers on a variety of contemporary issues in North American politics including the transnational political behavior of the Mexican diaspora in the US, Latino political thought, Latino college student access, Mexican American politics, Mexican electoral politics, and North American migration.

Xiaojun Zhang

University Chief Officer of Education; Executive Dean, Academy of Future Education; Acting Dean, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

University Chief Officer of Education; Executive Dean, Academy of Future Education; Acting Dean, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Dr Xiaojun Zhang got his PhD degree at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He joined Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as the Deputy Director of Institute of Leadership and Education Advanced Development (ILEAD) in 2013, which was created by him under the support of university leaders. Now Xiaojun is the University Chief Officer of Education; Executive Dean of the Academy of Future Education at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Xiaojun also takes the role of Acting Dean of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub in Entrepreneur College (Taicang) at XJTLU since August 2022. Xiaojun is an edupreneur who initiated all the four units within the Academy of Future Education. He was appointed as Head of ILEAD in 2017 when ILEAD became a department of Education. He restructured the faculty development centre at XJTLU and built the team of Educational Development Unit (EDU) in 2018. The Department of Educational Studies (EDS) was created by Xiaojun in 2019, and Learning Institute for Future Excellence (LIFE), as an innovative platform to support student transfarmation and global citizenship competence development at XJTLU, was created under his leadership in 2021. Dr Zhang led the development of several projects with national level impact. He created XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award in 2016, developed the Association for Sustainable Faculty Development in Higher Education in 2018 with more than 90 institutional members, and initiated the ILEAD Talk series established in more than 20 cities in China. Dr Zhang is a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) in UK. One of Xiaojun’s current work focuses on educating the educators in universities, including teachers, professionals, and institutional leaders and managers. He has developed many professional development programmes for educational practitioners across the country. His programmes were attended by more than 15,000 staff from more than 500 Chinese universities. Since 2013 he has been invited for more than 200 speeches for educational practitioners and researchers on the topic of education and teaching innovation. Xiaojun created one of the most influential community for teaching innovation in China: XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award. More than 4,250 innovative teachers from 500 Chinese universities applied for this award since 2016. Every year there are millions of online visits to this events, and there has accumulated more than 500 excellent teaching innovation cases. Dr Zhang’s research area includes institutional change and institutional logics; Educational leadership; Internationalization in Higher Education, especially the Sino-foreign Cooperative universities; Future education in the AI era; University transfarmation and teaching innovation, in particular research-led learning and teaching; student-centred education; student transition etc. Dr Zhang welcomes PhD applications in these areas. Xiaojun has published more than 100 academic papers and 5 books. His research focus on problems in practice and pay attention to practical implications. Most of his research has been adopted in his training programmes for higher education practitioners. One of his most recent books titled "University Transfarmation: From Teacher Dominated to Student-Centred" published by Tsinghua University Press is a guidebook for education practitioners who want to transform their education. Xiaojun proposed the "diamond model" of teaching innovation in AI era and highlighted ten key directions of teaching innovation in his another recently published book "Future-oriented Teaching Innovation" by Economic and Management Press.

Xanthe Lowe-Brown

PhD Student, The University of Melbourne

PhD Student, The University of Melbourne Xanthe Lowe-Brown is a PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Melbourne, holding a PhD scholarship from the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE). Working with an exceptional interdisciplinary supervision team - Dr Greg Wadley (Human-Computer Interaction), Dr Solange Glasser (Music Psychology) and A/Prof Peter Koval (Psychology), Xanthe’s PhD aims to enhance wellbeing outcomes for music listeners by improving recommendation algorithms used by music streaming services such as Spotify to recommend music helps users regulate their emotions. Xanthe completed a Bachelor of Music Performance (Contemporary Guitar) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 2021 and her Honour's thesis on the individual differences in the experience of Musically-Evoked Chills in 2022, alongside Dr Solange Glasser.

Xiaoling Guo

The University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia Xiaoling Guo is a PhD candidate in Marketing at the Business School at the University of Western Australia. She is a researcher in the areas of social marketing, social media, influencer marketing, and QCA (Qualitative comparative analysis) methodology.

Xinyu Fu

Senior Lecturer of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato

Senior Lecturer of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Xinyu Fu is currently a senior lecturer of environmental planning at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is primarily interested in planning issues related to water such as flooding and sea-level rise, and bridging novel AI technologies and planning practice. Xinyu is also an American Certified Planner, AICP.