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Dr William Yat Wai Lo's Outputs (12)

Trust and tension: shared governance in higher education amid student activism (2025)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W. (online). Trust and tension: shared governance in higher education amid student activism. Studies in Higher Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2449243

This article examines the intricate dynamics of trust and tension within university governance in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where the broader socio-political context – particularly student activism – profoundly influences university operations. Using the... Read More about Trust and tension: shared governance in higher education amid student activism.

The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China (2024)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Lo, W. Y. W., & Ng, F. S. K. (online). The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China. Educational Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2399730

The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented transformation of China into an important “receiving” nation for international student mobility (ISM), underscored by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-tied African countries becoming the main import ma... Read More about The emergence of multipolarity in global higher education: the Belt and Road Initiative and African students’ motivations to pursue postgraduate education in China.

Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao (2024)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W. (2024). Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao. Comparative Education, 60(4), 626-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2024.2335014

This article examines the intertwining and evolution of neoliberal and nationalist discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao, arguing that their combination reveals the dual layers of political rationality in the dynamics of higher education po... Read More about Towards governmentality with Chinese characteristics: higher education policy discourses in post-colonial Hong Kong and Macao.

Reimagining the notion of Hong Kong as an education hub: National imperative for higher education policy (2023)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W., & Li, D. (2023). Reimagining the notion of Hong Kong as an education hub: National imperative for higher education policy. International Journal of Educational Development, 103, Article 102938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102938

This article examines the evolving concept of Hong Kong as an education hub, with a focus on the influence of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) strategy on higher education development. It begins by reviewing the impacts of the policy of developing Hong Kon... Read More about Reimagining the notion of Hong Kong as an education hub: National imperative for higher education policy.

Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong (2023)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W. (2023). Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2200077

This paper aims to explain the path of higher education development and governance in (post-colonial) Hong Kong in light of the concept of hybridity. The paper begins with a historical review, delineating the establishment of major universities in Ho... Read More about Departing from hybridity: higher education development and university governance in postcolonial Hong Kong.

On the (re)move: exploring governmentality in post-colonial Macao’s higher education (2023)
Journal Article
Vong, S. K., & Lo, W. Y. W. (2023). On the (re)move: exploring governmentality in post-colonial Macao’s higher education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44(3), 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2200076

This paper explores the governmentality in Macao’s higher education (HE) by exemplifying how neoliberalism and Chinese nationalism simultaneously inform the governmental rationalities and technologies in the city. Like many other systems, neoliberali... Read More about On the (re)move: exploring governmentality in post-colonial Macao’s higher education.

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.

The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong (2023)
Journal Article
Lo, W. Y. W., & Auld, E. (2024). The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong. Higher Education Quarterly, 78(1), 4-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12418

University students actively participated in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. In this context, the students expected that their universities would support their political stance. Drawing on data from interviews with student leaders, this article document... Read More about The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong.

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.