Dr Ren-Hao Xu is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, the University of Western Australia. He is a policy sociologist with research interests in education governance, higher education and comparative education. His work can be found in the Journal of Education Policy and Higher Education Policy, and in Australian Universities (Sydney University Press, 2022), Using Theory in Higher Education (Springer Nature, 2024) and Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).