Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow of Education Futures at the University of South Australia. He is also the Portfolio Lead (Research) of UniSA's 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 100 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. 
Before Michael joined UniSA, he was a DECRA fellow funded by the Australian Research Council; an Associate Professor, a Principal Research Fellow, and a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology; 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 for research students and junior academics - 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.