Dr. Gao Fang is Associate Professor in the Department of International Education. She did her undergraduate studies and initial professional education at Shenyang University in China. She has a Master degree in Educational Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and she completed PhD in the Sociology of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests are in minority education and sociology of education. She has published Becoming a model minority: Schooling experiences of ethnic Koreans in China (Lexington Books, 2010), 34 papers in international refereed journals such as Race Ethnicity and Education (A*), British Educational Research Journal (A*), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (A*), International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (A*), Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (A), , Current Issues in Language Planning (A), British Journal of Sociology of Education (A), Comparative Education (A), Asian Ethnicity (A) and so forth, and 17 refereed book chapters. She is also the editor for Education, ethnicity and equity in the multilingual Asian context (2019) by Springer and Identities, practices and education of evolving multicultural families in Asia by Routledge. Her second monograph Power, identity, and second language learning: Teaching and learning Chinese as a second language in China is in preparation and to be published by Routledge.

• Education for a Meaningful Life: Great Thinkers
• Educational Reform and Development in Global Context
• Multilingual Education

Associate Editor: Multicultural Education Review (2017-).
Editorial Board Member: Human Rights Education Review (2017- ).
Editorial Board Member: Migration and Language Education (2017- ).