Rate My Professor Ren-Hao Xu

As a policy sociologist, Ren-Hao Xu specializes in education policy, higher education, comparative and international education, and education governance. His ongoing research projects explore geopolitics and higher education, student decision-making processes in Australian universities under demand-driven funding, and global governance of new pedagogies for deep learning. He invites supervision inquiries in higher education, global education policies, comparative education, and sociology of education. Xu has received notable early-career accolades, including the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2025, the Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Early Career Researcher Award in 2025, the UWA Graduate School of Education Early Career Research Award of $2,500 AUD in 2024, and an Early Career Researcher Fellowship plus grants from Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council amounting to $35,500 AUD in 2024-2025. His publication record comprises 22 outputs, including key articles such as "Calculation for best decision on university places under the demand-driven funding system" (Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2025), "Making Higher Education Market Through Open Data Platform: Digital Educational Governance and Struggling Universities" (Higher Education Policy, 2025), "Policy mobilities and the (re)making of higher education militarisation under AUKUS" (Australian Educational Researcher, 2025), and "Declined quality? A poststructural policy analysis of the ‘quality problem’ in Taiwanese higher education" (Journal of Education Policy, 2024). Additionally, he reviews for journals like Higher Education Quarterly, Journal of Education Policy, and Australian Educational Researcher. Xu's scholarship illuminates policy mobilities, digital governance, and quality assurance in higher education across Taiwan, Australia, and global arenas, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 10.