Huili Si

My research interest focus on the governance and management of transnational higher education (TNHE) partnership, especially between UK and China, with decision making power allocated among different external and internal stakeholders from UK's and China's higher education partners. I also look at how China's TNHE partnership strategies influence particularly the UK and how the UK responds at the national and insitutional levels.

Huili Si (Stella) is a PhD researcher at Manchester Institution of Education.  Before joining The University of Manchester, she has extensive professional experience in transnational higher edcuation partnership as project manager, with the responsibilities covering all-round tasks from risk assessment to implementations. Based on her past operational experience, she is interested in practice-oriented research. Now her research interest focus on the governance and management of transnational higher education (TNHE) partnership, especially Sino-UK joint institutes and oversea branch campus based in China, with decision making power allocated among different external and internal stakeholders from UK's and China's universities. She also looks at how China's TNHE partnership strategies influence the outside world particular the UK and how the UK responds at the national and institutional levels.

Publications

Huili Si & Stephen Rayner (2023): Interview: Transnational Collaboration for quality education: Sino-UK partnerships, BELMAS international and Comparative Education (ICE) Research Interest Group. https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/opinion-and-blog/interview-transnational-collaboration-quality-education-sino-uk-partnerships

Si, H. & Lim, M.A. (2023). Neo-tributary geopolitis in transnational higher education (TNHE)：a regional analysis of Sino-foreign higher education partnership. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21(2), 266-277.

Invited talk on "The Future of Engineering Education 2023", at King's College London, 4th Spetember 2023

Presenter of "Transnational Partnerships in Higher education: Implication for Governance and Management", at BELMAS Annual Conference 2023: 'Troubling Educational Leadership Through Authentic Engagement', 14th-16th, July, Belfast, UK

Presenter of "Organizational Governance of Transnational Partnership in Higher Education: Study of Sino-foreign Joint Institutes for Sustainability", HER 2023: 'Sustainable Development Goals: Their potential and relevance for higher education policy and reform', 21st-23rd June, Glasgow, UK

Presenter of "Innovation in Transnational Higher Education Governance: The case of Sino-UK joint institutes", the 35th CHER conference 2023: Higher Education Institutions as Change Agents in Society: Perspectives on Adaptations and Impact, 30th August - 1st Spetember, Vienna, Australia

Presenter of "Organizational Governance and Management of Transnatonal Partnerships in Higher Education: Study of Sino-foreign Joint Institutes", ECER 2023: 'The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research', 22nd-25th August, Glasgow, UK

Presenter of "Sino-foreign Higher Education Partnership: Regional Configurations and Geopolitics in China's Transnational Higher Education", at ECPR 2020, 24th-28th, Austria

Presenter of "Pandemic as Catalyst of Decentralizing Sino-foreign Joint institutes' Governance: a case study of Covid-related Higher Education Temporary Enrollment Expansion of China" at CHER 2020, 14th November, Lingnan University, Hongkong

Presenter of "Institutional Governance of China's Transnational Higher Education: A new paradigm in Post pandemic", CHER 2021, 6th-9th December, 2021, The University of Manchester, UK

Panel Chair of "Soft Power and Knowledge Diplomacy" at CHER 2021, 6th -9th December, 2021, The University of Manchester. UK

Courses where I am: tutor

EDUC61751 Educational Leadership as a Social Practice

EDUC70141&77301 Education Technology and Communication