Zhuo Sun is a PhD researcher at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Her research interests are reputation management for higher education institutions, international higher education policy and learning development in higher education. She has published on peer-reviewed, international journals on various topics, such as reputation management and higher education pedagogies since 2023. As a teaching assistant and co-lecturer, she has led different seminars and conducted marking at the undergraduate and graduate level, and has co-lectured on a graduate course. Since 2024, she has served as the deputy chair on the conference organising committee of the Association of Learning Development in Higher Education.