Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Michael Mu
- Position(s)
- Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Education,
School of Teacher Education and Leadership - Associate Professor
Faculty of Education,
School of Teacher Education and Leadership - Discipline *
- Education Systems
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 0236
- m.mu@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Professional memberships
and associations Editorial Board, 北京师范大学学报 [Journal of Beijing Normal University] (Top Tier Chinese Journal) http://wkxb.bnu.edu.cn/CN/1002-0209/home.shtml
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cijd20/current
- Keywords
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sociology of education, Bourdieu, quantitative research (e.g., SEM, SNA) and mixed methods research, child and youth resilience, floating children and left-behind children in China, Chinese diaspora, teacher education in China, international doctoral workshop, Teacher Education and Professional Learning (TEPL)
Biography
Dr Michael Mu is Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. His ARC-DECRA ($418,489.94) is concerned with culture, class, and resilience. Michael has published five scholarly books and over 50 scholarly papers including journal articles and book chapters. Over 65% of his journal articles appear in Q1 journals.
Over the years, Michael has developed three areas of research expertise: building resilience in (im)migration and multicultural contexts; negotiating Chineseness in diasporic contexts; and developing teacher professionalism in inclusive education contexts. To grapple with the research problems emerging from the aforementioned three areas, Michael draws on theories of sociology of education (e.g., Bourdieu’s reflexive and relational sociology) as well as mixed methods and quantitative approaches (e.g., social network analysis, structural equation modelling, factor analysis, hierarchical linear regression, non-parametric test, meta-analysis, path analysis, process analysis, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, and Item Response Theory).
Michael is the Coordinator of Research Master’s Programs in QUT’s Faculty of Education. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education; an editorial board member for the prestigious Chinese journal of 北京师范大学学报 [Journal of Beijing Normal University]; and an invited panelist of the Rapid Review Program of the journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory. In addition to his editorial roles, Michael reviews numerous scholarly journals. Before taking the position at QUT, Michael was a school teacher, a lecturer at Beijing Normal University in China, and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Calgary in Canada.
Teaching
- EDN611 Conducting and Evaluating Educational Research (March 2016 – June 2019)
- EDN612 Shaping an Educational Research Project (2019)
Publications
- Mu M, Pang B, (2019) Interpreting the Chinese diaspora: Identity, socialisation, and resilience according to Pierre Bourdieu (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World)
- Mu M, (2018) Building resilience of floating children and left-behind children in China: Power, politics, participation, and education (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)
- Mu M, Hu Y, Wang Y, (2017) Building resilience of students with disabilities in China: The role of inclusive education teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education p125-134
- Mu M, Hu Y, (2016) Validation of the Chinese version of the 12-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure, Children and Youth Services Review p332-339
- Mu M, Hu Y, (2016) Living With Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context: Floating Children and Left-behind Children in China
- Mu M, Dooley K, Luke A, (2019) Bourdieu and Chinese education: Inequality, competition, and change, Routledge
- Mu M, Liang W, Lu L, Huang D, (2018) Building pedagogical content knowledge within professional learning communities: An approach to counteracting regional education inequality, Teaching and Teacher Education p24-34
- Mu M, (2016) Learning Chinese as a heritage language: An Australian perspective
- Mu M, Dooley K, (2015) Coming into an inheritance: family support and Chinese Heritage Language learning, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism p501-515
- Mu M, (2015) A meta-analysis of the correlation between heritage language and ethnic identity, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development p239-254
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) - Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Board Member, Journal of Beijing Normal University (Top Tier Chinese Journal)
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Associate Editor (International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education; SSCI)
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Invited Rapid Review Panellist (Educational Philosophy and Theory, Q1)
- Type
- Membership of Review Panels on Prestigious Grant Applications
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- ARC Detailed Assessor (2019 & 2020 Discovery)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Outstanding Reviewer Award (Teaching and Teacher Education, Q1)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Best Paper Award
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Resilience, Culture, and Class: A Sociological Study of Australian Students
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE180100107
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
- Title
- Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education through collaborative research partnerships in the Asia Pacific Region
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- ACSRF00982
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
Supervision
Developing a sociological approach to child and youth resilience
Negotiating Chineseness through a multicultural lens
Contesting the “diaspora” of Bourdieu’s sociology in transnational, transcultural, and transdisciplinary contexts
Deploying Social Network Analysis in educational research
Quantifying and measuring the “confounders” of educational problems
Current supervisions
- A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN AND CHINESE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES' PARTNERSHIP IN TRANSNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION (TNHE) IN CHINA
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Carol Nicoll, Professor Karen Dooley - Understanding the resilience process of Chinese international Higher Degree Research students in Australia: A sociological mixed-methods study
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Deborah Henderson - Investigating partnership between teachers and families in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) from the perspective of Bourdieu's theories
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Julia Mascadri - Chinese parents' perspectives on and involvement in the International Baccalaureate
Middle Years Programme internal assessments
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Lynette May - Brains, Beneficial Beliefs, and Science Achievement
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Leanne Crosswell, Adjunct Professor Nanette Bahr, Associate Professor Alberto Bellocchi
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Grammar and Vocabulary Testing in the Senior High School Entrance English Test in China: A Washback Study from a Learning Oriented Assessment Perspective (2020)
- School-Family Relationships in Diverse Australia: A Sociological Case Study of the Connections between a School Community and Parents from an Afghan Refugee Background (2020)
- From University Graduates to Teachers in Disadvantaged Schools: A Sociological Study of Participation in an Alternative Teacher Recruitment Program (2018)
- Students' ethnolinguistic identities in multiethnic, Bilingual Education classrooms in Sri Lanka (2018)