APrf Michael Mu

Enterprise Fellow

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at Adelaide University. He is also the Portfolio Lead (Research) of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. As a sociologist of education, Michael is particularly interested in building resilience for and with: (1) children and young people in migration contexts (e.g., floating children and left-behind children in China, children with an immigrant background, and international students), and (2) educational professionals (e.g., school teachers). His work has attracted a total research income of over 1.3 million dollars and has been published into over 130 books and articles. Most of his publications are framed through a Bourdieusian lens. His current research on international students’ housing issues, community engagement, and everyday wellbeing has attracted national and international attention, featuring in major media outlets such as ABC news, SBS news, Times Higher Education, University World News, and many others. In addition to scholarly publications, Michael is also an author of two picture books Journey to Resilience: Kaya’s First Day of School and Journey to Resilience: Feng and the Phoenix Fruit. Michael has deep methodological expertise in quantitative analyses that align with relational sociology. These include but are not limited to multiple correspondence analysis, social network analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and structural equation modelling. Michael also has rich experience in conducting mixed methods research in educational contexts. 
Michael was an Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia; an Associate Professor, a Principal Research Fellow, and a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology; a DECRA fellow funded by the Australian Research Council; an Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Calgary; a Lecturer and international program coordinator at Beijing Normal University; and a schoolteacher in China.
Michael takes a number of external leadership roles. He is the chief editor of the Routledge book series Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific. He chairs the Bourdieu in Educational Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He also leads and convenes two international academic communities - one on Bourdieu in Educational Research and the other on Quantitative Methodology in Education Research. Michael is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education. He also serves on the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Beijing Normal University (in Chinese), and Beijing International Review of Education. Beyond academia, Michael is a classical pianist.

Michael is a sociologist of education. He is interested in building resilience in (im)migration contexts, promoting teacher professional development in inclusive education contexts, and negotiating Chineseness in diasporic contexts. He has published strongly in those areas and most of his publications are framed through a Bourdieusian lens. Michael is a solo author, lead author, or lead editor of seven books. His most recent books Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience with Bourdieu (Routledge, 2022) and Journey to Resilience: Kaya’s First Day of School (a children’s picture book) were the outcomes from his multi-year large-scale project 'Resilience, Culture, and Class: A Sociological Study of Australian Children' funded by the Australian Research Council (2018-2022, DE180100107). Michael has deep methodological expertise in quantitative analyses that align with relational sociology. These include but are not limited to multiple correspondence analysis, social network analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and structural equation modelling. Michael also has rich experience in conducing mixed methods research in educational contexts.

Language Competency
Chinese (Mandarin) Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

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2025 Mu, G. M., & Soong, H. (2025). Rethinking "counterintuitive" results and analogical reasoning: a rejoinder to the critique of "erroneous regression". Higher Education, online, 1-8.
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2025 Bai, L., & Mu, G. M. (2025). Qualitative study of learners of Chinese at an Australian university: heritage language, investment, and identity. Journal Of Multilingual And Multicultural Development, online, 1-16.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). Identity and belonging among chinese canadian youth: racialised habitus in school, family, and media. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, online, 1-3.
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2025 Wang, R. R., & Mu, G. M. (2025). A bibliometric analysis of alternative routes to teaching: scope, development, and topical foci. Teaching and Teacher Education, 153(104825), 1-16.
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2025 Mu, G. M., & Soong, H. (2025). Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017-2024) in Australia. Higher Education, online(6), 1-17.
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2025 Soong, H., & Mu, G. M. (2025). International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences: an Australian study. Studies In Higher Education, online(1), 1-15.
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2025 Pan, P., & Mu, G. M. (2025). Australian universities' approaches to transnational higher education in China: a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis. Higher Education, online(2), 1-19.
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2025 Vo, H., Hoang, T. T. H., & Mu, G. M. (2025). Exploring the dynamic relations between second language students' classroom engagement and task value belief: a longitudinal study. Learning and Instruction, 95(102025), 1-11.
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2025 Dai, K., Li, X., & Mu, G. M. (2025). Bourdieusian exploration of international students' WeChatting experiences in China: a habitus of digital learning. Studies In Higher Education, online(3), 1-14.
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2025 Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Zhou, W. (2025). A 'community turn' to engaging international students: the 'bright' and 'dark' social capital. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 106(102173), 1-10.
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2025 Singh, N., Caldwell, D., & Mu, M. (2025). Pre-service teachers' experiences of learning grammar to support EAL/D learners. TESOL in Context, 33(2), 1-15.
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2024 Xing, C., Mu, G. M., & Henderson, D. (2024). Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia: a Bourdieusian perspective. Higher Education Research and Development, 43(6), 1448-1463.
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2024 Mu, G. M. (2024). A systematic literature review of building resilience for pre-service teachers. International Journal of Educational Research, 128(102476), 1-15.
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2024 Mu, G. M. (2024). Advancing Bourdieusian sociology of education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, online, 1-3.
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2024 Dai, K., & Mu, G. M. (2024). Navigating across academic labour markets: a Bourdieusian reflexive narrative of a Chinese international doctoral graduate's employment experiences. Higher Education Research and Development, 43(6), 1243-1258.
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2024 Zhang, Y., Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2024). Gauging 21st Century Competencies of Chinese Students: A Rural-Urban Comparative Perspective. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 17(2), 344-364.
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2024 Mu, G. M., Gordon, D., Liang, J., Zhao, L., Alonso, R. A., Juri, M. Z., . . . Xing, C. (2024). A meta-analysis of the correlation between teacher self-efficacy and teacher resilience: Concerted growth and contextual variance. Educational Research Review, 45(100645), 1-18.
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2024 Xing, C., Mu, G. M., & Henderson, D. (2024). Problematising English monolingualism in the 'multicultural' university: a Bourdieusian study of Chinese international research students in Australia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 45(6), 1851-1863.
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2024 Mu, G. M., Wang, Y., Zhu, N., & Zhou, D. (2024). Resilience to neoliberal structural constraints: lessons from Chinese inclusive education teachers. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 28(9), 1755-1770.
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2024 Stahl, G., Soong, H., Mu, G. M., & Dai, K. (2024). A fish in many waters? addressing transnational habitus and the reworking of Bourdieu in global contexts. Sociological Research Online, 29(2), 418-437.
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2024 Pan, P., & Mu, G. M. (2024). 'University matching' in state-regulated Sino-Australian transnational higher education: a Bourdieusian social network analysis. Compare, online(6), 1-18.
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2024 Mu, G. M. (2024). Groupings between floating children and urban children: a Bourdieusian social network analysis of physical and social distance in space. Children and Youth Services Review, 159(107520), 1-9.
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2023 Mu, G. M., Gordon, D., Xu, J., Cayas, A., & Madesi, S. (2023). Benefits and limitations of partnerships amongst families, schools and universities: a systematic literature review. International Journal Of Educational Research, 120(102205), 1-11.
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2023 Li, H., Mu, G. M., & Theron, L. (2023). Editorial: Social and physical ecologies for child resilience: wisdom from Asia and Africa. Frontiers in Psychology, 14(1312299), 1-3.
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2023 Harris, K. M., Wang, L., Mu, G. M., Lu, Y., So, C., Zhang, W., . . . Ho, R. C. (2023). Measuring the suicidal mind: the 'open source' Suicidality Scale, for adolescents and adults. PloS one, 18(2, article no. e0282009), 1-28.
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2023 Yin, Y. M., & Mu, G. M. (2023). Thriving in the neoliberal academia without becoming its agent? Sociologising resilience with an early career academic and a mid-career researcher. Higher Education, 86(1), 65-80.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2023). Preface. Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education Habitus Mobility and Language, ix-xiii.
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2022 Peters, M. A., Means, A. J., Ericson, D. P., Tukdeo, S., Bradley, J. P. N., Jackson, L., . . . Misiaszek, G. W. (2022). The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A symposium. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54(10), 1531-1549.
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2022 Yin, Y. M., & Mu, G. M. (2022). Reproducing the urban or reappraising the local? Extracurricular activities developed by fellows in an alternative teacher preparation programme in China. Journal of Education for Teaching, 48(1), 21-34.
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2022 Yin, Y. M., & Mu, G. M. (2022). Examination-oriented or quality-oriented? A question for fellows of an alternative teacher preparation program in China. Australian Educational Researcher, 49(4), 727-742.
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2022 Mu, G. M., & Pang, B. (2022). Repurposing field analysis for a relational and reflexive sociology of Chinese diasporas. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54(12), 2121-2132.
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2022 Xing, C., Mu, G. M., & Henderson, D. (2022). Submission or subversion: survival and resilience of Chinese international research students in neoliberalised Australian universities. Higher Education, 84(2), 435-450.
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2021 Hoi, V. N., & Mu, G. M. (2021). Perceived teacher support and students' acceptance of mobile-assisted language learning: evidence from Vietnamese higher education context. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(2), 879-898.
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2021 Mu, G. M. (2021). Time to ring the death knell for agency and resilience? Some sociological rethinkings of inclusive education. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 68(6), 822-830.
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2021 Mu, G. M. (2021). Sociologising resilience through Bourdieu's field analysis: misconceptualisation, conceptualisation, and reconceptualisation. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(1), 15-31.
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2021 Mu, G. M. (2021). Destroying the Trojan Horse of 'lazy inclusivism': collective wit of Chinese children, parents, and educators in the context of 'learning in regular classroom'. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 68(6), 735-741.
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2020 Yin, M. Y., & Mu, G. M. (2020). Recognising localised pedagogical capital: a reflexive revisit of an alternative teacher preparation programme in China. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(12), 1290-1301.
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2020 Mu, G. M. (2020). Chinese education and Pierre Bourdieu: power of reproduction and potential for change. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(12), 1249-1255.
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2020 Mu, G. M. (2020). A Bourdieusian rebuttal to Bourdieu's rebuttal: social network analysis, regression, and methodological breakthroughs. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(12), 1266-1276.
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2019 Mu, G. M., Zhang, H., Cheng, W., Fang, Y., Li, S., Wang, X., & Dooley, K. (2019). Negotiating scholarly identity through an international doctoral workshop: a cosmopolitan approach to doctoral education. Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(1), 139-153.
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2019 Yin, Y. M., Dooley, K., & Mu, G. M. (2019). Why do graduates from prestigious universities choose to teach in disadvantaged schools? Lessons from an alternative teacher preparation program in China. Teaching and Teacher Education, 77, 378-387.
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2019 Wijesekera, H. D., Alford, J., & Mu, M. G. (2019). Forging inclusive practice in ethnically-segregated school systems: lessons from one multiethnic, bilingual education classroom in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(1), 23-41.
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2019 Burke, L. E. C. A., Hall, J., de Paiva, W. A., Alberga, A., Mu, G. M., Leigh, J. P., & Vazquez, M. S. (2019). Postdoctoral scholars in a faculty of education: navigating liminal spaces and marginal identities. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 18(4), 329-348.
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2018 Mu, G. M., Liang, W., Lu, L., & Huang, D. (2018). Building pedagogical content knowledge within professional learning communities: an approach to counteracting regional education inequality. Teaching and Teacher Education, 73, 24-34.
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2017 Mu, G. M., Hu, Y., & Wang, Y. (2017). Building resilience of students with disabilities in China: the role of inclusive education teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education, 67, 125-134.
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2017 Wang, Y., Mu, G. M., & Zhang, L. (2017). Chinese inclusive education teachers' agency within temporal-relational contexts. Teaching and Teacher Education, 61, 115-123.
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2016 Mu, G. M. (2016). Looking Chinese and learning Chinese as a heritage language: the role of habitus. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 15(5), 293-305.
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2016 Mu, G. M., Jia, N., Hu, Y., Hughes, H., Shi, X., Zhang, M. C., . . . Xia, H. (2016). Generating benefits and negotiating tensions through an international doctoral forum: a sociological analysis. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 63-85.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Jia, N. (2016). Rural dispositions of floating children within the field of Beijing schools: can disadvantaged rural habitus turn into recognised cultural capital?. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(3), 408-426.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Validation of the Chinese version of the 12-item child and youth resilience measure. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 332-339.
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2016 Mu, G. M. (2016). Spotlight on China: Changes in education under China's market economy. FRONTIERS OF EDUCATION IN CHINA, 11(4), 545-547.
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2016 Mu, G. M., Jia, N., Hu, Y., Hughes, H., Shi, X., Zhang, M. C., . . . Xia, H. (2016). Generating benefits and negotiating tensions through an international doctoral forum: A sociological analysis. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 63-85.
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2015 Mu, G. M. (2015). Young children as intercultural mediators: Mandarin-speaking Chinese families in Britain. FRONTIERS OF EDUCATION IN CHINA, 10(2), 340-342.
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2015 Wang, Y., Mu, G. M., Wang, Z., Deng, M., Cheng, L., & Wang, H. (2015). Multidimensional classroom support to inclusive education teachers in Beijing, China. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 62(6), 644-659.
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2015 Doherty, C., Shield, P., Patton, W., & Mu, G. M. (2015). The limits to public service: rural communities, professional families and work mobility. Community, Work and Family, 18(1), 100-116.
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2015 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2015). Coming into an inheritance: family support and Chinese heritage language learning. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 18(4), 501-515.
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2015 Carrington, S., Saggers, B., Adie, L., Zhu, N., Gu, D., Hu, X., . . . Mu, G. M. (2015). International representations of inclusive education: how is inclusive practice reflected in the professional teaching standards of China and Australia?. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 62(6), 556-570.
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2015 Mu, G. M., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Feng, Y., Deng, M., & Liang, S. (2015). An enquiry into the professional competence of inclusive education teachers in Beijing: attitudes, knowledge, skills, and agency. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 62(6), 571-589.
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2015 Mu, G. M. (2015). Pedagogical practices and support systems of inclusion: empirical evidence from Chinese societies. International Journal of Disability Development and Education, 62(6), 551-555.
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2015 Mu, G. M. (2015). A meta-analysis of the correlation between heritage language and ethnic identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 36(3), 239-254.
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2014 Mu, G. M. (2014). Chinese Australians’ Chineseness and their mathematics achievement: the role of habitus. Australian Educational Researcher, 41(5), 585-602.
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2014 Mu, G. M. (2014). Heritage Language learning for Chinese Australians: the role of habitus. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 35(5), 497-510.
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2014 Mu, G. M. (2014). Learning Chinese as a heritage language in Australia and beyond: the role of capital. Language and Education, 28(5), 477-492.
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2014 Wang, Y., & Mu, G. M. (2014). Revisiting the Trajectories of Special Teacher Education in China through Policy and Practice. International Journal of Disability Development and Education, 61(4), 346-361.
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2013 Mu, G. M., Zheng, X., Jia, N., Li, X., Wang, S., Chen, Y., . . . Diezmann, C. (2013). Revisiting educational equity and quality in China through Confucianism, policy, research, and practice. Australian Educational Researcher, 40(3), 373-389.
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- Mu, M., & Lobwein, G. (2022). Journey to Resilience : Feng and the Phoenix Fruit.
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- Xiao, Y. (2016). Book Review: Review of Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language: An Australian Perspective by Guanglun Michael Mu (2016), Multilingual Matters (ISBN 978-1-78309-428-8). Heritage Language Journal, 13(1), 85-87.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). Quantifying Bourdieu in educational research : traditions, innovations and a reflexive invitation / (Vol. Part F291). Singapore: Springer.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Kun, D. (2024). Mapping transnational habitus: epistemology, theory and boundaries (Vol. Part F4766). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Ayling, P., & Weininger, E. B. (Eds.) (2024). The Bloomsbury handbook of Bourdieu and educational research. UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Ayling, P., & Weininger, E. B. (Eds.) (2024). The Bloomsbury handbook of Bourdieu and educational research. UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (Eds.) (2023). Recontextualising and recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese education: habitus, mobility and language. US: Routledge.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (Eds.) (2023). Recontextualising and recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese education: habitus, mobility and language. US: Routledge.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (Eds.) (2023). Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change. UK: Routledge.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (Eds.) (2023). Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change. UK: Routledge.
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2022 Mu, G. M. (2022). Sociologising child and youth resilience with Bourdieu: an Australian perspective. UK: Routledge.
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2019 Mu, G. M., & Pang, B. (2019). Interpreting the Chinese diaspora: identity, socialisation, and resilience according to Pierre Bourdieu. London: Routledge.
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2018 Mu, G. M., Dooley, K., & Luke, A. (Eds.) (2018). Bourdieu and Chinese education: inequality, competition, and change. New York: Routledge.
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2018 Mu, G. M., Dooley, K., & Luke, A. (Eds.) (2018). Bourdieu and Chinese education: inequality, competition, and change. New York: Routledge.
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2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Building resilience of floating children and left-behind children in China: power, politics, participation, and education. UK: Routledge.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Living with vulnerabilities and opportunities in a migration context: floating children and left-behind children in China. Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
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2015 Mu, G. M. (2015). Learning Chinese as a heritage language: an Australian perspective (Vol. 162). UK: Multilingual Matters.
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- Mu, G. M., & Lobwein, G. (2021). Journey to Resilience: Kaya's First Day of School. Queensland University of Technology.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). Interlude: A Snapshot of Multiple Correspondence Analysis. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 21-23). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). “Out-of-Field Teaching”: A Bourdieusian Social Network Analysis of Teacher Resilience in the Context of the Chinese Teaching and Research System. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 85-103). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). A Longitudinal Study of Class Relations in Australia: A Bourdieusian Multiple Correspondence Analysis. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 25-53). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). Interlude: A Bourdieusian Rebuttal to Bourdieu’s Rebuttal. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 55-62). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). Quantifying Bourdieu: Dimension Reduction, Differentiation, Time, and a Reflexive Invitation. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 105-121). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). Groupings Between Floating Children and Urban Children: A Bourdieusian Social Network Analysis of Physical and Social Distance in Space. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 63-83). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Mu, G. M. (2025). “Watch Out for Methodological Watchdogs!”: Re-engaging Quantitative Inquiry in Bourdieusian Sociology of Education. In SpringerBriefs in Education (pp. 1-20). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Dai, K. (2024). Transnational Habitus as Conceptual Tool. In Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (pp. 23-50). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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2024 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2024). RECONTEXTUALISING AND RECONTESTING BOURDIEU IN CHINESE EDUCATION HABITUS, MOBILITY, AND LANGUAGE Preface. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), RECONTEXTUALISING AND RECONTESTING BOURDIEU IN CHINESE EDUCATION (pp. IX-XIII). ROUTLEDGE.
2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Dai, K. (2024). Critical Reflections. In Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (pp. 95-111). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Dai, K. (2024). Applying Theory: Considering Empirical Work. In Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (pp. 77-94). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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2024 Stahl, G., & Mu, G. M. (2024). Pierre Bourdieu: Revisiting reproduction, cultural capital, and symbolic violence in education. In Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers (pp. 1199-1214). Springer International Publishing.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Ayling, P., & Weininger, E. B. (2024). Introduction: Applying Bourdieu in Educational Research. In Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research (pp. 1-17).
2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Ayling, P., & Weininger, E. B. (2024). Introduction: Applying Bourdieu in educational research. In G. Stahl (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Educational Research (pp. 1-18). UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Dai, K. (2024). Transnational Habitus: Epistemological and Methodological Considerations. In Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (pp. 51-74). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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2024 Stahl, G., Mu, G. M., Soong, H., & Dai, K. (2024). Introduction. In Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (pp. 1-20). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2023). Researching Chinese education from within and afar: enacting Bourdieu's 'practical reflexivity'. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language (pp. 185-201). US: Routledge.
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2023 Mu, G. M., Yin, M. Y., & Liu, D. (2023). A comparative analysis of Teach for China and the Special Post Teacher Plan: Cross-field capital, orchestrated habitus, and transverse movements. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language (pp. 102-119). US: Routledge.
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2023 Liu, L., Mu, G. M., O'Gorman, L., & Dillon Wallace, J. (2023). Parental engagement in children's transition to school: A Bourdieusian analysis of a Chinese sample in Beijing. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language (pp. 44-63). US: Routledge.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2023). Preface - Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language (pp. ix-xiii). US: Routledge.
2023 Mu, G. M. (2023). Bourdieu and Chinese education: recontextualising and recontesting sociological traditions. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language (pp. 3-21). US: Routledge.
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2023). Bourdieu and Chinese higher education beyond the nation: structures, strategies, and practices of advantage. In K. Dooley, & G. M. Mu (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change (pp. 1-18). UK: Routledge.
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2023 Pan, P., Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2023). Partnering for transnational higher education: a multiple correspondence analysis of university habitus and institutional action for 'China-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools'. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change (pp. 20-40). UK: Routledge.
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2023 Dooley, K., & Mu, G. M. (2023). Re-appropriating Bourdieu for post-national research on Sino-foreign higher education. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change (pp. 161-179). UK: Routledge.
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2023 Xing, C., Mu, G. M., & Henderson, D. (2023). Power imbalance and power shift between Chinese international research students and their supervisors: adaptation and resilience. In G. M. Mu, & K. Dooley (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Sino-Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change (pp. 104-123). UK: Routledge.
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2023 Pan, P., Michael Mu, G., & Dooley, K. (2023). Partnering for transnational higher education: A multiple correspondence analysis of university habitus and institutional action for ‘China–Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools’. In Bourdieu and Sino Foreign Higher Education Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change (pp. 21-40).
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2023 Mu, G. M., & Dooley, K. (2023). Researching Chinese education from within and afar: Enacting Bourdieu's ‘practical reflexivity’. In Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education Habitus Mobility and Language (pp. 185-201).
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2023 Mu, G. M., Yin, M. Y., & Liu, D. (2023). A comparative analysis of Teach for China and the Special Post Teacher Plan: Cross-field capital, orchestrated habitus, and transverse movements. In Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education Habitus Mobility and Language (pp. 102-119).
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2023 Liu, L., Mu, G. M., O'Gorman, L., & Dillon-Wallace, J. (2023). Parental engagement in children's transition to school: A Bourdieusian analysis of a Chinese sample in Beijing. In Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education Habitus Mobility and Language (pp. 44-63).
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2023 Mu, G. M. (2023). Language-in-education and sociology of resilience for child (im)migrants: the cases of India, China, and Australia. In W. O. Lee (Ed.), Source details - Title: International Handbook on Education Development in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 581-599). Singapore: Springer.
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2023 Mu, G. M. (2023). Bourdieu and Chinese education: Recontextualising and recontesting sociological traditions. In Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education Habitus Mobility and Language (pp. 3-21).
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2023 Mu, G. M. (2023). Language-in-Education and Sociology of Resilience for Child (Im)migrants: The Cases of India, China, and Australia. In International Handbook on Education Development in Asia-Pacific (pp. 1-19). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2022 Stahl, G., & Mu, M. G. (2022). Pierre Bourdieu: revisiting reproduction, cultural capital, and symbolic violence in education. In B. Geier (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers (pp. 1-16). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2022 Mu, G. M. (2022). Teacher resilience in the Chinese context of 'learning in regular classroom': a response to 'Lazy inclusivism'. In W. Beamish, & M. Yuen (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Inclusion for Students with Special Educational Needs across the Asia Pacific (pp. 59-78). Singapore: Springer.
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2019 Jia, N., & Mu, G. M. (2019). Capital conversion and school change: a Bourdieusian analysis. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese education: Inequality, competition, and change (1 ed., pp. 175-191). US: Routledge.
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2019 Zhu, N., & Mu, G. M. (2019). Behavioural support in mainland China. In F. Bryer, & W. Beamish (Eds.), Source details - Title: Behavioural support for students with special educational needs: trends across the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 141-149). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
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2019 Mu, G. M. (2019). Teacher professionalism, teacher agency, and student resilience in Chinese inclusive education: a sociological perspective. In M. J. Schuelka, C. J. Johnstone, G. Thomas, & A. J. Artiles (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Sage Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education (pp. 1-11). UK: Sage.
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2019 Yin, Y. M., Dooley, K., & Mu, G. M. (2019). Educational practice in a field of mediation: elite university graduates' participation experience of an alternative program of schoolteacher recruitment for rural China. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese education: Inequality, competition, and change (pp. 81-96). US: Routledge.
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2019 Guo, S., Guo, Y., Luke, A., Dooley, K., & Mu, G. M. (2019). Market economy, social change and educational inequality: notes for a critical sociology of Chinese education. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese education: Inequality, competition, and change (1 ed., pp. 20-44). US: Routledge.
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2018 Dooley, K., Mu, G. M., & Luke, A. (2018). Introduction: China, education, and Bourdieu. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese Education: Inequality, Competition, and Change (pp. 1-19). US: Routledge.
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2018 Mu, G. M., Luke, A., & Dooley, K. (2018). Re: appropriating Bourdieu for a sociology of Chinese education. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese Education: Inequality, Competition, and Change (pp. 239-263). US: Routledge.
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2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Resilience in the face of illness, fear, and stigma Being floating, left behind, and HIV positive, so what?. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 175-195). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Resistance as a sociological process of resilience Indigenous voices from under-resourced migrant families. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 104-129). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Seminal work, paradigmatic shifts, and foundational models Approaching a sociology of child and youth resilience. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 32-70). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Social capital and community-based resilience building Social Network Analysis, social connectedness, and social support. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 153-174). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Recreation, socialisation, and resilience The "magic" of physical activity. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 130-152). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Developing a sociology of resilience Reflexive learning and implications for practice, policy, and education. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 196-209). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Quantifying child and youth resilience Methodological conundrum and psychometric validation. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 71-103). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Floating children and left-behind children in the migration context A three-level field analysis of power, policy, and participation. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. 1-31). ROUTLEDGE.
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2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China Power, Politics, Participation, and Education Preface. In BUILDING RESILIENCE OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA: POWER, POLITICS, PARTICIPATION, AND EDUCATION (pp. XI-XXIV). ROUTLEDGE.
2018 Mu, G. M. (2018). Resistance as a sociological process of resilience: stories of under-resourced migrant families. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese Education: Inequality, Competition, and Change (pp. 120-143). US: Routledge.
2018 Mu, G. M., Liu, L. L., Fu, W., Hao, D., Jia, N., Qin, Y., . . . Wu, X. (2018). Using English at an international doctoral workshop: a three-level field analysis. In G. M. Mu, K. Dooley, & A. Luke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Bourdieu and Chinese Education: Inequality, Competition, and Change (pp. 192-213). US: Routledge.
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2016 Mu, G. M. (2016). Negotiating Chineseness and capitalising on resources through learning Chinese heritage language: habitus and capital in fields. In M. Robertson, & P. K. E. Tsang (Eds.), Source details - Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (Vol. 30, pp. 41-58). Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). URBANISATION AND MIGRATION <i>Histories</i>, <i>Patterns</i>, <i>and Challenges</i>. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 1-23). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). COMING INTO AN INHERITANCE <i>Intergenerational Social Reproduction through Class</i>-<i>Based Pedagogies</i>. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 47-77). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). <i>A Call for System</i>-<i>Level Change</i> CONCLUSION. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 165-173). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). RURAL DISPOSITIONS OF FLOATING CHILDREN IN URBAN FIELDS <i>Accent</i>, <i>Deportment</i>, <i>and Bodily Hexis</i>. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 79-100). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN AS RESILIENT AGENTS <i>A Strength</i>-<i>Based Pathway to Wellbeing</i>. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 143-164). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). LIVING WITH KIN CAREGIVERS <i>Special Needs of Children Left Behind</i>. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 101-122). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context <i>Floating Children and</i> <i>Left</i>-<i>Behind Children in China</i> PREFACE. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. VII-+). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). THE WELLBEING OF FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN <i>Conceptual Foundation and Empirical Knowledge</i>. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 25-46). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Floating Children and Left-Behind Children as Resilient Agents. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 143-164). SensePublishers.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). The Wellbeing of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 25-46). SensePublishers.
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2016 Mu, G. M. (2016). Negotiating Chineseness through learning Chinese as a heritage language in Australia: the role of habitus. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Source details - Title: Theory as Method in Research: on Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (pp. 17-32). UK: Routledge.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Rural Dispositions of Floating Children in Urban Fields. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 79-100). SensePublishers.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). EDUCATION AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND. In LIVING WITH VULNERABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MIGRATION CONTEXT: FLOATING CHILDREN AND LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN IN CHINA (pp. 123-142). SENSE PUBLISHERS.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Urbanisation and Migration. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 1-23). SensePublishers.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Coming into An Inheritance. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 47-77). SensePublishers.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Conclusion. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 165-173). SensePublishers.
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2016 Mu, G. M., & Hu, Y. (2016). Living with Kin Caregivers. In Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context (pp. 101-122). SensePublishers.
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2014 Guo, Z. (2014). Young Children as Intercultural Mediators Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain. In YOUNG CHILDREN AS INTERCULTURAL MEDIATORS: MANDARIN-SPEAKING CHINESE FAMILIES IN BRITAIN (Vol. 26, pp. 157-167). MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD.
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- Dooley, K., & Mu, M. (2026). Enabling students to capitalise on their linguistic-cultural resources for higher degree research. In Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers Volume 2. Queensland University of Technology and James Cook University.
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2019 Mu, G. M., Liang, W., Lu, L., & Huang, D. (2019). Pedagogical Content Knowledge Scale.
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  • Promoting international students wellbeing and social connection: Community-engaged program, Adelaide City Council, 05/01/2023 - 30/06/2025

Courses I teach

  • EDUC 5030 Project in Education (2025)
  • EDUC 5030 Project in Education (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor International students' study choices in Australia amid volatile post-pandemic contexts: A Bourdieusian mixed-methods study - Doctorate Full Time Ms Xuechen Zhang
2024 Co-Supervisor Exploring and Supporting the Wellbeing of Chinese International Students: A Multi-Phase, Multi-Perspective Case Study at an Australian University - Doctorate Full Time Miss Xin Fang
2023 Co-Supervisor Recalibrating pedagogy for Pre-At-Risk (PAR) international students: The case of a private higher education provider (PIHE) in Australia. - Doctorate Part Time Mrs Anastasia Yeark
2023 Principal Supervisor A 'drowning trench' of ongoing joblessness and a career-nurturing 'mooring'? A Bourdieusian sociological study of `slow employment in China - Doctorate Full Time Fanghui Gao
2023 Principal Supervisor Graduates from elite universities as schoolteachers: A sociological exploratory study - Doctorate Full Time Miss Ruoxin Wang
2023 Principal Supervisor Resilience to challenges of returning to society: A sociological qualitative study of young leukaemia survivors in China   - Master Full Time Mr Mingyang Wang
2023 Principal Supervisor Resilience to challenges of returning to society: A sociological qualitative study of young leukaemia survivors in China   - Master Full Time Mr Mingyang Wang

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