Postgraduate research students

Current research 

My PhD research explores how Chinese women with experiences in UK Higher Education make sense of womanhood over time.

Research interests 

• Feminisms
• Intersectionality 
• Internationalization of Higher Education
• Creative inquiry 
• Transnationalism 
• Mobility 

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• Dr Catherine Fagan
• Dr Benjamin Mulvey
• Dr Lisa Bradley

PGR Conference support grant £ 780

• Using online collage and culturally responsive focus groups to investigate Chinese women’s experience of intersectionality before, during and after UK HE. Lancaster University, invited seminar, online, 6 December 2022.
• Dai, Q (2022) Chinese women students' sense-making of their transnational experience and womanhood before, during and after UK HE. In 2022 SRHE International Research Conference: Mobilities in Higher Education, online, 5th December 2022 - 9th December 2022.
• The interaction between Chinese women’s understanding of womanhood and their lived experience in UK Higher Education. In China and Higher Education 2022: (Re)imagining Kindness in Times of Conflict, online, 30th November 2022- 2nd December 202.
• Dai, Q (2022) A creative feminist online inquiry on Chinese women students' understanding of womanhood and experience of intersectionality in UK HE. In the SERA Annual conference 2022, Ayr, 23rd November - 25th November.
• Dai, Q. (2022) The interaction between Chinese women's understanding of womanhood and their lived experience in UK Higher Education. In the Global South Philomathia Social Sciences Research Symposium, Cambridge, UK, 29 June-1 July 2022
• Liu, R. and Dai. Q (2022) Zine-making workshop: Guided session as a creative reflection on work and gender. In the Global South Philomathia Social Sciences Research Symposium, Cambridge, UK, 29 June-1 July 2022
• Dai, Q (2022) Emotion in online creative inquiry: Chinese womanhood in UK Higher Education.  In the 2^nd School of Social Sciences Doctoral Conference “Building Resilient Communities” , Online, UK, June 2022 
• Dai, Q (2022) The interaction between Chinese women’s understanding of womanhood and their lived experience in UK Higher Education. In British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS) Conference, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2022
• Dai, Q (2022)  Life Under/Post-Pandemic, Chair. In: British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS), Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2022
• Dai, Q (2022) Art-based methodology, feminisms and wellbeing. In PhD-led Seminar, Glasgow, UK, May 2022
• Dai, Q (2021) What it’s like to advise on academic writing as a GTA and first-year international PGR. This UofG PhD Life Symposium, online, 20^th 2021

• 11.2022 to date, Associate tutor, School of Education, University of Glasgow
• 09.2021 to date, Graduate teaching assistant, School of Education, University of Glasgow
• 02.2021 to date, Graduate teaching assistant, LEADS, University of Glasgow  
• 02.2021 to date, Part-time EPQ research tutor, Illume Technology
• 09.2019-07.2020, English teacher and educational administrator, Chengdu Bekids Consultant Co., Ltd, Chengdu
• 09.2018-05.2020, Part-time learning mentor, EIC Education, Glasgow
• 02.2017-08.2017, Teacher (educational theories), Chengdu Modern Vocational and Technical School, Chengdu
• 07.2015-01.2017, Intern English teacher, Eton House International School, Chengdu

• 2020 to date, PhD in Education, University of Glasgow, 
• 2018-2019, Master of Science: Educational Studies, University of Glasgow
• 2017-2018, Pre-Master's for Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow International College
• 2012-2016, Bachelor of Arts: Preschool Education, Sichuan Normal University