Gang Li, PhD

Dr. Li frequently shares his research ideas at international conferences. Below is a list of his selected conference presentations:

• Li, G., & Zhang, Z. H. (2024, July). Reimagining leadership education from the perspective of peace. A roundtable session hosted at the 34th annual conference of Association of Leadership Educators, Minneapolis, the United States. 
• Li, G. (2024, June). The sacred in leadership studies: A scoping review. Paper presented at International Leadership Association (ILA) Philosophy, Religion, & Worldview Hybrid Conference - “Exploring the sacred”. 
• Li, G. (2021, April). Chinese international students’ engagement with large-scale democracy in the United States. Paper presented at the 65th annual conference of Comparative and International Education Society that was held virtually.
• Li, G. (2019, April). Reimaging Chinese globally mobile students: Political subjects in the making. Paper presented at the 63rd annual conference of Comparative and International Education Society, San Francisco, United States.
• Li, G. (2016, July). Shaping Chinese citizens in the United States: A case study of Chinese students’ international education experience from a political perspective. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Vancouver, Canada.
• Li, G. (2015, March). Mapping the interplay between Canada’s International Education Strategy and Chinese students: A governmentality perspective. Paper presented at the 59th annual conference of Comparative and International Education Society, Washington D.C., United States.
• Li, G. (2014, December). Overseas Mainland Chinese students' engagement with democratic discourses and practices in Canada and the United States. Doctoral research presented at the international conference "China in the Global Academic Landscapes. New Horizons: Topical and Structural Challenges for 2020", Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover, Germany. 
• Li, G. (2014, June). Metaphor matters: Studying Chinese political culture from the perspective of conceptual metaphors. Paper presented at the annual conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Bellingham, WA, United States.
• Li, G. (2013, May). Qualitative research on China's democratization in the context of neoliberal international higher education. Paper presented at the 9th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States.

Awards & Honors

• UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship 2010-2014
• UK Government Chevening Scholarship 2007-2008

Recent Publications

• Li, G. (2024). “To see if the experiment with institutionalizing democratic rules would work”: Chinese international students’ engagement with democracy in U.S. higher education institutions. In C. Rose-Redwood & R. Rose-Redwood (Eds.), International student activism and the politics of higher education (pp. 117-132). Lexington Books. 
• Li, G. (2020). Reimaging Chinese globally mobile students: Political subjects in the making. In U. Gaulee, S. Sharma, & K. Bista (Eds.), Rethinking education across borders: Issues and insights on globally mobile students (pp. 141-153). Springer. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=id4awLEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=id4awLEAAAAJ:W7OEmFMy1HYC
• Li, G. (2016). Politically sensitive Chinese students' engagement with democracy in Canada: A case study. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 12(1), 96-121. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=id4awLEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=id4awLEAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C
• Ruitenberg, C., Knowlton, A. & Li, G. (2016). The productive difficulty of untranslatables in qualitative research. Language and Intercultural Communication, 16(4), 610-626. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=id4awLEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=id4awLEAAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC

Affiliations & Memberships

• Collaborator, China Innovative Urban-Rural Governance Research Network
• Member, International Leadership Association
• Member, Association of Leadership Educators