I am a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. My work lives at the intersection of student development, higher education internationalization, and global migration.
My doctoral research investigates the identity transformation of Chinese International Doctoral Students in Social Sciences and Humanities in Western academy. My dissertation employs narrative inquiry to explore how these students navigate the discourse dissonance and troublesome knowledge encountered in Western academia. I am particularly interested in “identity as becoming”, a framework that views this as an iterative process of self-making influenced by personal biography, migration, and academic self-formation.
My professional practice is deeply informed by my doctoral research on academic/professional socialization, adult learning theories, and SSHRC project experience with immigrant engineers in BC. Currently, I serve as an cooperative education faculty at Northeastern University Vancouver, where I support the engineering students through industry partnerships and co-op curriculum.
I am full of curiosity and seeks to understand the world through new perspectives. Previously, I studied across multiple disciplines, including M.A. in Pacific & Asian Studies from University of Victoria and dual Bachelor’s degrees in English Education and Sociology from East China Normal University. Recently, I have discovered dancing and embodied movement as a new way of seeing and relating to myself and the world.