Dian Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6458264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dian Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dian |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stavanger |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3336-7506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding women’s underrepresentation in senior academic roles
Despite decades of gender equality initiatives, women remain overrepresented in entry-level academic positions worldwide. This integrative review examines the barriers that hinder women’s career progression in academia, the mechanisms by which these barriers exert their influence, and the strategies women employ to address or resist them. To do this, 569 empirical articles selected from the Web of Science (published between 1991 and 2024) have be…
Differential Effects of Emotion-Label Words and Emotion-Laden Words Priming on Estimation Performance
Empowering women in academia
Numerous studies have documented the widespread marginalization of female scholars throughout their professional journeys in various societies. It has been noted that women in academia are not given the same opportunities as men when it comes to advancement into professorship, leadership roles, productivity in research, and salary. The personal pursuits and willingness of female researchers, including how they self-activated to negotiate with str…
Typology of habitus in education
How Job Demands and Resources Relate to Experiences of Bullying and Negative Acts among University Employees
This article addresses a gap in the work psychology literature regarding psychosocial working conditions and bullying among staff in academic organizations. We examine the influences, institutional demands, and resources attached to given academic positions, such as how the level of social support and cooperation influence the level of experienced negative acts at work and bullying in different work groups in an academic work environment. We also…
Habitus, campus experience, and graduate employment
In the harsh Chinese graduate labor market, urban, middle-class students continue to outpace those from rural, underprivileged backgrounds in job access and occupational attainment. Literature attributes this graduate employment gap to varied accumulation of social capital embedded in their social network, leading to advantages of middle-class. This social network-capital approach, however, rarely revealed the influences of a gradually establishe…
Othering and Being Othered
(2021). Othering and Being Othered: Experiences and Reflections of Chinese Female PhD Graduates in Cross-Cultural Job Search. Chinese Education & Society: Vol. 54, Experiences and Mobility of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars, pp. 120-129
Employment and Academic and Social Integration
The number of Chinese students studying abroad keeps increasing. A total of 622,100 Chinese students studied at universities abroad in 2018 (Textor 2020). There is growing interest in studying these international students from a variety of perspectives, including the economic benefits to host countries, educational mobility (Cheng 2021), intercultural communication (Yu and Moskal 2019), academic and social adaptation (Gu 2016), and curriculum int…
Challenges and Opportunities in Qualitative Research
The Family–School Linkage in Addressing Bullying in Hong Kong
The phenomenon that around ten percent of schoolchildren are bullied regularly in Hong Kong has attracted much scholarly attention in anti-bullying research. Current literature suggests taking into consideration the contextual features and socioeconomic factors in anti-bullying research, instead of applying identical intervention/prevention measures across cultures. Therefore, this article examines the role of school-family linkage as a mirror of…
What is the influence of cultural capital on student reading achievement in Confucian as compared to non-Confucian heritage societies
The present study compared the contribution of familial cultural capital to the reading achievement of 116,508 15-year-old students who participated in PISA 2012 in six Confucian heritage cultures (CHCs) and nine non-CHCs with comparable educational and economic development. The different states of cultural capital examined comprised institutionalised (maternal, paternal education) and objectified (educational, cultural resources) indicators. Res…
Teacher Demoralization, Disempowerment and School Administration
Teacher demoralization is a concept describing the negative emotional experiences affecting teachers’ well-being and quality of teaching. However, since the dominant discourse about teacher demoralization is influenced by psychological perspectives, especially the theory of burnout, most of effort to promote teachers’ well-being and quality of teaching reply on psychological approaches. Nevertheless, teacher demoralization is more socially constr…
Graduate Employment in China
The past 35 years have witnessed a massive ongoing reform of Chinese higher education, in which four processes, marketization, massification, privatization, and decentralization have deeply influen
Expansion of higher education and the employment crisis
Purpose This paper aims to review policy innovations in China for addressing the graduate unemployment crisis that has been created by the expansion of higher education in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on government documents, research findings, and mass media reports to highlight the key measures of the Chinese government to alleviate the over‐education problem and to improve college graduates' employment prospect…
What is the influence of cultural capital on student reading achievement in Confucian as compared to non-Confucian heritage societies
The present study compared the contribution of familial cultural capital to the reading achievement of 116,508 15-year-old students who participated in PISA 2012 in six Confucian heritage cultures (CHCs) and nine non-CHCs with comparable educational and economic development. The different states of cultural capital examined comprised institutionalised (maternal, paternal education) and objectified (educational, cultural resources) indicators. Res…
Expansion of higher education and the employment crisis
Purpose This paper aims to review policy innovations in China for addressing the graduate unemployment crisis that has been created by the expansion of higher education in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on government documents, research findings, and mass media reports to highlight the key measures of the Chinese government to alleviate the over‐education problem and to improve college graduates' employment prospect…
Empowering women in academia
Numerous studies have documented the widespread marginalization of female scholars throughout their professional journeys in various societies. It has been noted that women in academia are not given the same opportunities as men when it comes to advancement into professorship, leadership roles, productivity in research, and salary. The personal pursuits and willingness of female researchers, including how they self-activated to negotiate with str…
Othering and Being Othered
(2021). Othering and Being Othered: Experiences and Reflections of Chinese Female PhD Graduates in Cross-Cultural Job Search. Chinese Education & Society: Vol. 54, Experiences and Mobility of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars, pp. 120-129
The Family–School Linkage in Addressing Bullying in Hong Kong
The phenomenon that around ten percent of schoolchildren are bullied regularly in Hong Kong has attracted much scholarly attention in anti-bullying research. Current literature suggests taking into consideration the contextual features and socioeconomic factors in anti-bullying research, instead of applying identical intervention/prevention measures across cultures. Therefore, this article examines the role of school-family linkage as a mirror of…
Expansion of higher education and the employment crisis
Purpose This paper aims to review policy innovations in China for addressing the graduate unemployment crisis that has been created by the expansion of higher education in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on government documents, research findings, and mass media reports to highlight the key measures of the Chinese government to alleviate the over‐education problem and to improve college graduates' employment prospect…
Graduate Employment in China
The past 35 years have witnessed a massive ongoing reform of Chinese higher education, in which four processes, marketization, massification, privatization, and decentralization have deeply influen
Teacher Demoralization, Disempowerment and School Administration
Teacher demoralization is a concept describing the negative emotional experiences affecting teachers’ well-being and quality of teaching. However, since the dominant discourse about teacher demoralization is influenced by psychological perspectives, especially the theory of burnout, most of effort to promote teachers’ well-being and quality of teaching reply on psychological approaches. Nevertheless, teacher demoralization is more socially constr…
What is the influence of cultural capital on student reading achievement in Confucian as compared to non-Confucian heritage societies
The present study compared the contribution of familial cultural capital to the reading achievement of 116,508 15-year-old students who participated in PISA 2012 in six Confucian heritage cultures (CHCs) and nine non-CHCs with comparable educational and economic development. The different states of cultural capital examined comprised institutionalised (maternal, paternal education) and objectified (educational, cultural resources) indicators. Res…
The Family–School Linkage in Addressing Bullying in Hong Kong
The phenomenon that around ten percent of schoolchildren are bullied regularly in Hong Kong has attracted much scholarly attention in anti-bullying research. Current literature suggests taking into consideration the contextual features and socioeconomic factors in anti-bullying research, instead of applying identical intervention/prevention measures across cultures. Therefore, this article examines the role of school-family linkage as a mirror of…
Challenges and Opportunities in Qualitative Research
Habitus, campus experience, and graduate employment
In the harsh Chinese graduate labor market, urban, middle-class students continue to outpace those from rural, underprivileged backgrounds in job access and occupational attainment. Literature attributes this graduate employment gap to varied accumulation of social capital embedded in their social network, leading to advantages of middle-class. This social network-capital approach, however, rarely revealed the influences of a gradually establishe…
Othering and Being Othered
(2021). Othering and Being Othered: Experiences and Reflections of Chinese Female PhD Graduates in Cross-Cultural Job Search. Chinese Education & Society: Vol. 54, Experiences and Mobility of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars, pp. 120-129
Employment and Academic and Social Integration
The number of Chinese students studying abroad keeps increasing. A total of 622,100 Chinese students studied at universities abroad in 2018 (Textor 2020). There is growing interest in studying these international students from a variety of perspectives, including the economic benefits to host countries, educational mobility (Cheng 2021), intercultural communication (Yu and Moskal 2019), academic and social adaptation (Gu 2016), and curriculum int…
Typology of habitus in education
How Job Demands and Resources Relate to Experiences of Bullying and Negative Acts among University Employees
This article addresses a gap in the work psychology literature regarding psychosocial working conditions and bullying among staff in academic organizations. We examine the influences, institutional demands, and resources attached to given academic positions, such as how the level of social support and cooperation influence the level of experienced negative acts at work and bullying in different work groups in an academic work environment. We also…
Empowering women in academia
Numerous studies have documented the widespread marginalization of female scholars throughout their professional journeys in various societies. It has been noted that women in academia are not given the same opportunities as men when it comes to advancement into professorship, leadership roles, productivity in research, and salary. The personal pursuits and willingness of female researchers, including how they self-activated to negotiate with str…
Understanding women’s underrepresentation in senior academic roles
Despite decades of gender equality initiatives, women remain overrepresented in entry-level academic positions worldwide. This integrative review examines the barriers that hinder women’s career progression in academia, the mechanisms by which these barriers exert their influence, and the strategies women employ to address or resist them. To do this, 569 empirical articles selected from the Web of Science (published between 1991 and 2024) have be…
Differential Effects of Emotion-Label Words and Emotion-Laden Words Priming on Estimation Performance
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · China (4 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cultural capital (3 works)