Dr Meng Tian

Dr Meng Tian

School of Education
Associate Professor in Educational Leadership
Director of Global Engagement for the College of Social Science

Contact details

Email
m.tian@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Education Leadership Academy
School of Education
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Meng Tian joined the Education Leadership Academy, Department of Teacher Education in 2021. Her teaching and research interests lie in distributed leadership, social justice leadership, leaders’ and teachers’ professional development,  education leadership policy-making, and comparative education. Currently, she teaches in the PGDip Educational Leadership Programme and MA Education Programme (Leadership pathway) and supervises PhD theses and Master dissertations. Her latest research, on Cultivating Global Citizenship, aims to transform research-based global citizenship teacher CPD training into tangible teacher competencies while nurturing a heightened sense of global responsibility among youth. 

As of May 2024, Meng Tian serves as the Director of Global Engagement for the College of Social Science. Her responsibilities include leading and strategising for university reputation and ranking, international student recruitment and experience, international research collaboration, as well as staff and student mobility.

On top of her teaching and research work at the University 麻豆精选, she also holds appointments as the co-Convenor for the at the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and Associate Editor for the Sage journal .  

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PhD in Educational Leadership (Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  • M.A. in Educational Leadership (Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  • B.A. in Educational Administration (Faculty of Public Administration, East China Normal University, China)

Teaching

Current Teaching

  • PGDip MA Educational Leadership 
  • MA Education (Educational leadership pathway)
  • MA Dissertation

Modules

  • Understanding School Improvement
  • Dissertation

External Examination Appointments

  • External examiner for the University of Northampton 2019-2023

Postgraduate supervision

Distributed leadership
Social justice leadership
Leaders鈥� and teachers鈥� professional development
Educational leadership policymaking
Comparative education

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Tian, M 2023, . Qualitative and Visual Methodologies in Educational Research, 1st edn, Routledge. <>

Woods, P, Roberts, A, Tian, M & Youngs, H (eds) 2023, . Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. <>

Xing, X & Tian, M (eds) 2022, . East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education, 1 edn, Springer.

Article

Tian, M 2024, '', Educational Review.

Tian, M & Diamond, C 2024, '', Educational Management Administration & Leadership.

Tian, M 2023, '', Educational Management Administration & Leadership, pp. 1-18.

Tian, M 2021, '', Leadership and Policy in Schools , vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 6-20.

Tian, M & Nutbrown, G 2021, '', Educational Management Administration & Leadership.

Tian, M & Virtanen, T 2021, '', ECNU Review of Education, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 808-829.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Youngs, H, Roberts, A, Tian, M & Woods, PA 2023, . in PA Woods, A Roberts, M Tian & H Youngs (eds), Handbook on Leadership in Education. Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 517-535.

Woods, PA, Roberts, A, Tian, M & Youngs, H 2023, in PA Woods, A Roberts, M Tian & H Youngs (eds), Handbook on Leadership in Education. 1 edn, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 1-12.

Roberts, A, Tian, M, Woods, PA & Youngs, H 2023, . in PA Woods, A Roberts, M Tian & H Youngs (eds), Handbook on Leadership in Education. Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 13-15.

Youngs, H, Roberts, A, Tian, M & Woods, PA 2023, . in PA Woods, A Roberts, M Tian & H Youngs (eds), Handbook on Leadership in Education. 1 edn, Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 375-378.

Tian, M, Roberts, A, Woods, PA & Youngs, H 2023, . in Handbook on Leadership in Education. 1 edn, Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 186-189.

Chapter

Tian, M & Lan, X 2020, . in Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict. Routledge.