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A method for assaying DNA flexibility (2023)
Journal Article
Cirakli, E., & Basu, A. (in press). A method for assaying DNA flexibility. Methods,

The Ranking Game (2023)
Book Chapter
Lo, W. Y. W., & Allen, R. M. (2023). The Ranking Game. In D. Kapur, D. M. Malone, & L. Kong (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (210-227). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192845986.013.10

This chapter analyses the prevalence of global university rankings within the context of intensified global competition in higher education and the associated call for developing world-class universities in Asia. It argues that higher education inter... Read More about The Ranking Game.

Vulnerable autonomy: university governance in the context of student activism in Hong Kong (2021)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W. (2023). Vulnerable autonomy: university governance in the context of student activism in Hong Kong. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 32(2), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2021.2007504

A managerial model of shared governance is adopted in Hong Kong’s public universities to uphold university autonomy. However, with the political confrontation characterised by the rise of student activism, the sustainability of the managerial form of... Read More about Vulnerable autonomy: university governance in the context of student activism in Hong Kong.

Hybridisation and recombination: perspectives on higher education in Chinese societies (2023)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W., & Yang, R. (2023). Hybridisation and recombination: perspectives on higher education in Chinese societies. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44(3), 337-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2200073

Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, S., Yang, C., & Wai Lo, W. Y. (2023). Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44(3), 425-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2200078

This article considers the adoption of Western neoliberalism in Taiwan’s higher education (HE) governance as a hybridisation process in which the influences of political democratisation, social liberalisation and Chinese cultural traditions intersect... Read More about Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process.