Qian HUANG (Cathy) | Research Fellow

Biography

Qian Huang (Cathy) is a Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC). Her areas of expertise include educational technology, engineering education, design education, and the sociology of education. She is skilled in a variety of research methods, including systematic literature reviews, design-based research, semi-structured interviews, and onsite research observation.

She earned her Doctor of Education (EdD) from the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Education in 2022. Her dissertation examined the impact of studying abroad on the employability of engineering graduates, specifically how they develop resources and social capital to navigate their transition from education to employment. Following her EdD, Cathy joined the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in Singapore in 2023, where she contributed to the research program “How the Lightbulb Was Invented: Sparking Creativity with Deliberate Learning-from-Failure Interventions.”

Prior to her academic career, Cathy served as an executive officer at international offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Her experience in higher education administration inspired her to shift toward academic research, with a focus on engineering education and the integration of technology into university learning environments.

Education

• EdD, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
• MSc in International Business, The University of Nottingham
• BA in English Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University

Publications 

• Huang, Qian., & Jung, Jisun. (Accepted). University-to-work transition among engineering students in China–US double degree programmes: A Bourdieusian perspective, Journal of Education and Work
• Huang, Qian., & Wang, Qiyun (Accepted). Application of Metaverse in education: A systematic review, Int. J. of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments
• Huang, Qian. (Invited, in print). Chapter 6: Higher Education, in Qin, Yunyun (eds). Educational studies in Qatar – educational studies in Belts and Roads Countries, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (In Chinese)
• Huang, Qian., Williems, Thijs., & Poon, King Wang. (2024). The application of GPT-4 in grading design university students’ assignment: An exploratory study, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.17698
• Huang, Qian., & Wang, Qiyun. (2024). Exploring the Use of ChatGPT for a Systematic Literature Review: a Design-Based Research, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.1
• Poon, King Wang., Willems, Thijs., Huang, Qian. (2024). Future of Ai: Six possibilities for Educators (That were once impossible), The HEAD Foundation Digest, Issue 12. https://digest.headfoundation.org/2024/07/10/future-of-ai-six-possibilities-for-educators-that-were-once-impossible/
• Huang, Qian., & Xie, Xiujuan. (2023). Internationalization of higher education in Hong Kong: Opportunities and challenges in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, in Internationalization of Higher Education from Asian Perspectives: Insights into Policies, Practices and Prospects (Book Chapter) 
• Huang, Qian., & Jung, Jisun. (2023). Career decision-making among Chinese doctoral engineering graduates after studying in the United States, Higher Education Quarterly, doi: 10.1111/hequ.12475   
• Wang, Qiyun., & Huang, Qian. (2023). Strategies for engaging online students in blended synchronous learning: A systematic literature review, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. doi: 10.1109/TLT.2023.3282278
• Lan, Min., & Huang, Qian. (2023). Clustering digital learning pathway preferences from the perspectives of epistemic justification on self-regulated learning, social presence, and resources, Heliyon, doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20038 
• Xie, Xiujuan., Huang, Qian., & Jung, Jisun. (2022). Higher education and regional development of Shenzhen municipality in China’s greater bay area, International Journal of Chinese Education, online Sep 15, 2022. doi: 10.1177/2212585X221125981
• Xie, Ailei., Postiglione, Postiglione., & Huang, Qian. (2021). The Greater Bay Area (GBA) Development Strategy and Its Relevance to Higher Education, ECNU Review of Education, 4(1). doi: 10.1177/2096531120964466
• Huang, Qian., & Jung, Jisun.(2020). Development of strategies for internationalizing Chinese Higher vocational education, Journal of Institutional Research South East Asian, Vol 18, No. 1, May/June 2020
• Huang, Qian.(2015), Major study and cross-cultural communication of exchange students in mechanical engineering, Curriculum Education Research, Vol 26, p226-227 (in Chinese)
• Huang, Qian., Liu, Yingzheng., & Xi, Lifeng. (2014). Exploration and practice of international collaboration in mechanical engineering higher education. Research in Higher Education of Engineering, Sep 2014, p172-175 (in Chinese)

Conference Presentations/Proceedings

• Huang, Qian., Willems, Thijs., & Poon, King Wang. (Oct 2024). Fostering Lifelong Learning on Gen-AI in the Workplace, NTU Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: From Good to Great 2024, Oct 1-2, 2024 (Speaker)
• Willems, Thijs., & Huang, Qian. (Oct 2024). From failure to innovation: Developing educational interventions for engineering education, Engineering Education: Challenges, Trends, Best Practices (EE:CTBP), East Kazakhstan Technical University. (Co-author)
• Willems, Thijs., Huang, Qian., & Poon, King Wang. (Sep 2024). AIXEdcuation: Designing for a more inclusive future of education, 17th International Symposium on Advances in Technology Education (ISATE), 24-27 September, 2024 (Speaker)
• Huang, Qian., Willems, Thijs., Kaur, Ameek. (2024). How "Failure" Manifested in an Engineering Design Thinking Course, The 10th HERA conference. (Speaker)
• Huang, Qian., Kaur, Ameek, Samarakoon, Bhagya., Willems, Thijs. & Poon, King Wang & Elara, Mohan Rajesh. (2023). A pedagogical approach of “Learning from Failure” for engineering students: observation and reflection on a Robotics Competition (RoboRoarZ-Edition 2) , Proceedings of IEEE TALE, 27 Nov- 1 Dec, 2023 (Speaker)
• Huang, Qian., & Xie, Xiujuan. (2022, Apr). Internationalisation of higher education in Hong Kong: Opportunities and challenges in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, The 8th HERA conference. (Speaker)
• Huang, Qian. (2021, Jun). The impact of study abroad experiences on international students’ employability: a preliminary study on Chinese engineering students in US, 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances. (Speaker)
• Huang, Qian. (2019, Nov). Internationalization strategies of China’s Higher Vocational Institutes in a socialist market economy, The 2nd IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research – Hong Kong (CHER–HongKong2019), Hong Kong. (Speaker)
• Huang, Qian. (2016). ‘BUCKETS’ of Engineering Students in Globalization Era: Practice in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Speaker)