Dr Frank Su Profile Page

• Member of British Educational Research Association (BERA)
• Member of American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Member of British Education Studies Association (BESA)
• Member of British Computer Society (BCS)

Frank Su joined Liverpool Hope University in 2005.  He is trained as an Information Technology Research and Support Specialist with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science. He has a wide range of work experience in both the Higher Education and the IT industry in the UK and overseas. After completing his doctoral degree, he was appointed as Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Education in 2010.   

Frank's main research interests are in the area of cross-cultural learning contexts and the development of the learner within UK higher education settings (with particular reference to overseas students) and the uses of emergent technologies in learning and teaching. His PhD study focuses on the cross-cultural learning experiences of international Chinese students in the UK. He is currently working on a book cosmopolitan ‘learning journeys’.

He also has an interest in the qualitative methodologies relating to student learning. He currently teaches on research methods, perspectives and practice in education, global citizenship and supervises undergraduate research projects and postgraduate dissertations.  

Books and book chapters:

• Su, F. (ed) (2011) Chinese Learning Journeys: Chasing the Dream. Stoke on Trent: Trentham (contracted and in preparation).
• Su, F. (2011) 'Contexts and transitions' in Su, F. (ed) (2011) Chinese Learning Journeys: Chasing the Dream. Stoke on Trent: Trentham (forthcoming).
• Adamson, B., Nixon, J. and Su, F. (eds) (2012)The reorientation of higher education: compliance and defiance. New York and Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) University of Hong Kong in association with Springer (contracted and in preparation).
• Su, F. (2012) 'A student's experience of transitions' in Adamson, B., Nixon, J. and Su, F. (eds)The reorientation of higher education: compliance and defiance. New York and Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) University of Hong Kong in association with Springer (forthcoming).
• Su, F., Nixon, J. and Adamson, B. (2010) 'Seeking the Single Thread: the Conceptual Quest' in Thompson, P. and Walker, M. (eds) The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion: Getting to grips with Research in Education and the Social Sciences , London and New York: Routledge.

• Su, F. and Beaumont, C. (2010) Evaluating the use of a Wiki for collaborative learning, Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 47 (4).
• Su, F. (2011) Arrivals and departures: the Chinese student experience, Teaching in Higher Education. (In preparation)
• Wellington, J., Nixon, J. and Su, F. (2012) Educational publishing: globalisation, corporatism and the new technology. British Journal of Sociology of Education. (In preparation)

• Su, F. (2010) 'The student experience of cross-border learning: cosmopolitan learning'. Paper accepted for International Symposium on the Reorientation of Higher Education, 10th-11th November 2010, The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) of the University of Hong Kong, China (Forthcoming)
• Bignold, W. and Su, F. (2010) 'Employing narrative methodology in educational research effectively - two case studies'. Paper presented at 2010 British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference, 4th September 2010, University of Warwick, UK. Full conference paper is available in the British Education Index's Education-line collection
• Su, F. (2010) 'Working With Theories and Locating Conceptual Threads'. Paper presented at 2010 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, 30th April 2010, Denver, Colorado, USA. Full conference paper is available in the AERA Online Paper Repository www.aera.net/repository
• Su, F. (2009) ‘Socio-Cultural Aspects of Overseas Study: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Universities’. Paper presented at 2nd World Universities Forum Conference, 16th – 18th January 2009, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
• Su, F., Norton, B. and Norton, L. (2008) ‘The challenges Chinese students face in academic writing in two UK universities’. Presented at 3rd International Inquiring Pedagogies (iPED) Conference, 8th – 9th September 2008, Coventry University, UK.
• Su, F. and Beaumont, C. (2008) ‘Student Perceptions of E-Learning with a Wiki’. Paper presented at SOLSTICE international conference on eLearning and Learning Environment for the Future, 5th June 2008, Edge Hill University, UK.

PhD Thesis:

• Su, F. (2010) Transformations through learning: the experience of mainland Chinese undergraduate students in an English university. PhD Thesis, the University of Liverpool, UK. Thesis is also available [on-line] in British Library Electronic Theses Online System (ETHOS) at http://ethos.bl.uk