Bio

Dr. Chen joined the School of Education in 2016, and is currently an Assistant Professor. She holds an MA in Curriculum Studies and a PhD in Educational Studies from McGill University, Canada. After graduation, she continued her research at McGill as a postdoctoral fellow for a while. In Canada, her doctoral dissertation research was supported by Canada’s federal research funding agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC); and she participated in multiple funded research projects on doctoral education. In China, her research projects on doctoral students’ career preparation won grants from the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipal government. She also received teaching awards from SoE and SJTU.

Chen, S., & Shen, W. (forthcoming). People’s Republic of China, Mainland, in Kumar, V. & Wald, Nave (Eds.), Doctoral co-supervision policy and practice – a global perspective. Springer Nature Singapore.

Chen, S. (2023) China: Quality assurance, internationalisation, doctoral employment, and COVID-19. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 60 (5), 646-655. doi: 10.1080/14703297.2023.2237938 (SSCI)

Chen, S. (2023). China. In V. Kumar, S. Sharmini, & S. Taylor (Eds.), Doctoral examination: Exploring practice across the globe. (pp. 22-32). Routledge.