Ying Ji (Yumjyi) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her disciplinary background is in Sociology of Education, Educational Policy Studies, and International and Comparative Education. She graduated from Central China Normal University with a Bachelor's in English Language and Literature. She received her MPhil in Educational Research and PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge.

Ying Ji’s research interests include values and ethics, multiculturalism, equity & inclusion, educational governance, teacher professionalism, teachers’ work, teacher education and higher education.

Research Interests:

• Values and ethics
• Multiculturalism
• Equity & inclusion
• Educational governance
• Teachers’ work
• Teacher education
• Teacher professionalism
• Higher education

Recent research projects:

2024 -2025 PI. Doctoral research as knowledge production: Chinese international students’ navigation of ‘epistemic diversity’ in social sciences. EdUHK Department of Education Policy & Leadership Departmental Grant. Duration: 01/03/2024 to 28/02/2025. Co-I: Assoc. Prof. Hayes Tang, Assis. Prof. Adam Poole, Lecturer, Dala Duo.

2024 - 2025 Co-PI. Widening access to cosmopolitan capital: The experiences of first-generation university students in Hong Kong. EdUHK Department of Education Policy & Leadership Research Programs Support Scheme. Duration: 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024. Co-PI: Assoc. Prof. Ewan Wright, Assoc. Prof. Wong Kuan Lin, Assist. Prof. Adam Poole.

2023 -2024 PI. Preparing globally competent teachers in Hong Kong: a mixed method study. EdUHK Start-Up Grant for Assistant Professors, Committee on Research & Development. Duration: 01/09/2023 to 30/09/2024.

Other roles:

• Guest editor for Higher Education Special Issue: Expressions of educational change agents: Student voice influences in higher education. (With Carla Briffett-Aktaş, Assoc. Professor)
• Coordinating Editor for Universities & Intellectuals
• Coordinating Editor for Academic Praxis
• External peer reviewers for journals (e.g., Teaching and Teacher Education, Comparative Education Review, Asia Pacific Education Review, American Behavioral Scientist, etc.)
• Programme Leader of Master of Arts in Leading Innovative Learning Organisations (LILO), EdUHK. 
• Member of Faculty Research and Higher Degrees Support Committee, FEHD, EdUHK
• Fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, EdUHK