Rate My Professor Ren-Hao Xu

Dr. Ren-Hao Xu serves as a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia. He earned his PhD in Education Policy and Comparative Education from the University of Sydney in 2022, a Master of Education in Educational Policy and Administration from National Taiwan Normal University in 2016, and a Bachelor of Education in Comparative Education from National Chi Nan University in 2013. His academic background establishes a robust foundation in policy-focused educational research, spanning institutions in Taiwan and Australia.

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.