Yihong Jiao is a doctoral student and researcher at Beijing Normal University. Her research interests primarily include comparative higher education, education policy and management, and global education governance. During her doctoral studies, she has participated in several major national- and ministerial-level research projects in China, including projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, such as “Research on the Connotations, Characteristics, and Pathways of Building China into an Education Power” and “Research on the Development Strategies of International Education Exchange Brands”, as well as a major project commissioned by the Ministry of Education, “Research on China’s Development into a World-Important Education Center”. Her work has been published in Chinese outlets such as Tsinghua Journal of Education, Comparative Education Review (China), and China Education Daily.
Her current research examines university–city relations, with a particular focus on how research universities in the U.S. Rust Belt contribute to the transformation of old industrial cities through spatial restructuring, regional innovation systems, and multi-actor collaboration.
Comparative Higher Education; Higher Education Policy and Management; Global Education Governance; University–city Relations.
