Email: gaoming_zheng@tongji.edu.cn

         Office: Zhonghe Building Room 805, Tongji University (Siping Campus), China.

          Gaoming ZHENG is currently an assistant professor at Institute of Higher Education Research, Tongji University, China, as well as a researcher at Research Center for Educational Modernization (Tongji University). She is also a doctoral graduate and currently affiliated researcher of Higher Education Group (HEG), at Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland.

           Gaoming is a researcher standing on the bridge of Europe-China higher education cooperation, who benefits from the cooperation and devotes to promote the cooperation. Her master study was undertaken in the Master of Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) Program, an Erasmus Mundus Master Joint Degree Program, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Danube University Krems (Austria), Tampere University (Finland), Beijing Normal University (China) and Osnabruck University of Applied Sciences (Germany). She has work experiences in several higher education institutions in China and in Europe, including School of Foreign Studies in Southeast University (China, as administrator), Higher Education Group (HEG) in Tampere University (Finland, as researcher and university instructor), Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) in Twente University (the Netherlands, as intern researcher). She has also been involved in several international joint projects between European countries and China, including the EU-China Doc Project, LEAD Project, LEAD 2 Project, and Capacity Development Project for Sino-Finnish Education Cooperation Professionals.

          Her research interest covers doctoral education, internationalization of higher education, Europe-China higher education cooperation, quality assurance, academic profession and institutional logics. Currently her main research focus is on the forms, forces and quality of international joint doctoral education provision, especially in the Europe-China context.

         More details about her research can also be seen at:

         ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gaoming-Zheng

         Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.fi/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=mLK8Kk8AAAAJ

         Her recent publications:

Cai, Y., & Zheng, G. (2021). China’s policies and practices with respect to higher education cooperation with the EU. In E. Balbachevsky, Y. Cai, H. Eggins, & S. Shenderova (Eds.), China’s policies and practices with respect to higher education cooperation with the EU. Leiden: Brill.

Zheng, G. (2020). Quality and Quality Assurance of Europe-China Joint Doctoral Education: An Institutional Logics Perspective. (doctoral degree). Tampere University, Tampere, Finland Retrieved from http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1584-9 (263)

Zheng, G. (2019). Deconstructing Doctoral Students’ Socialization from an Institutional Logics Perspective: A Qualitative Study of the Socialization of Chinese Doctoral Students in Finland. Frontiers of Education in China, 14(2), 206-233. doi:10.1007/s11516-019-0011-y

Zheng, G., Kivistö, J., Shen, W., & Cai, Y. (2019). Comparing doctoral education in China and Finland: an institutional logics perspective  In H. Liu, F. Dervin, & X. Du (Eds.), Nordic-Chinese Intersections Within Education (pp. 197-231). Helsinki: Palgrave MacMillan.

Zheng, G., Shen, W., & Cai, Y. (2018). Institutional logics of Chinese doctoral education system. Higher Education, 76(5), 753-770. doi:10.1007/s10734-018-0236-3

Zheng, G., & Cai, Y. (2018). Collaboration between Europe and China in doctoral education: historical development and future challenges. In A. V. Oleksiyenko, Q. Zha, I. Chirikov, & J. Li (Eds.), International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: Soviet Legacy in China and Russia (1st ed., Vol. 35, pp. 335-361). Hong Kong: Springer & Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC).

Zheng, G., Cai, Y., & Ma, S. (2017). Towards an analytical framework for understanding the development of a quality assurance system in an international joint programme. European Journal of Higher Education, 7(3), 243-260. doi:10.1080/21568235.2017.1290877

Cai, Y., & Zheng, G. (2016). University academic promotion system and academic identity: An institutional logics perspective. In L. Leisyte & U. Wilkesmann (Eds.), Organizing Academic Work: Teaching, Learning, and Identities (1st ed., pp. 243-261). London: Routledge.

Zheng, G. (2014). Changing academic work in China: under the impact of academic promotion policy. (Master Monograph). University of Tampere, Tampere. Retrieved from https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/95989 (29977).