I held a BA in Education Studies from Durham and I graduated from Oxford in 2024 with an MSc in Education (Research Design and Methodology) before coming back to commence my DPhil in 2025. Outside of my degree, you will find me swimming at Rosenblatt Pool at 6 in the morning, playing basketball at Wolfson on Sundays, reading for pleasure when the sun sets, and most readily, feeding wild birds who flock to my window feeder throughout the day.

My research interests primarily lie in the sociology of education, in particular educational inequality, and I am fond of adopting a Bourdieusian lens to investigate such educational issues. Whilst my past research projects focused more on the secondary school students in China, especially how cultural and social capital play out in affecting their educational outcomes, for my DPhil I have started to alter my focus to look at how Chinese students perceive and experience higher education in the UK and how such experience may shape and influence their employability when they dive into the labor market. Notwithstanding the changes in focus, one theme remains in the core of my research, that is, how different forms of capital in Bourdieu’s accounts may manifest themselves in a non-Western context and how their impact may vary across national and cultural contexts.