Research interests

• Educational transfer, reference societies, and international comparison
• All-day school with a focus on children with a migration background
• Qualitative content analysis and frame analysis
• Postcolonialism

Academic Career

• 2017 – 2021 Doctoral studies in Comparative and International Education (Ph.D.) at Humboldt University Berlin (Prof. Dr. Florian Waldow, Prof. Dr. Gita Steiner-Khamsi)
• 2014 – 2017 Educational Science (Master) at Beijing Normal University
• 2015 – 2016 Exchange year at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2010 - 2014 German Studies (Bachelor) at the Northeastern University of China

Professional Activities

• Since 10.2021 Research assistant and coordinator of the BMBF collaborative project GeLeGanz at the Department of General Primary Education at the Freie Universität Berlin
• 02.2018 - 09.2021 Student assistant at VERBI Software. Consult. Sozialforschung GmbH, Berlin
• 05. - 11.2019 Consultant for conferences at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Xiamen/Berlin
• 03. - 06.2017 Internship at the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, Beijing
• 11.2016 - 02.2017 Internship at Volkswagen Automatic Transmission GmbH, Tianjin
• 10.2014 - 09.2016 Translator (part-time) for Xinhua News Agency of China, Beijing
• 03.2011 - 08.2013 Student assistant at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Northeastern University of China, Shenyang

Grants

• 10.2017 - 09.2021 Scholarship of the China Scholarship Council for doctoral studies in Berlin
• 10.2015 - 07.2016 Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service for an exchange year in Berlin
• 2014 - 2017 First Class Scholarship from Beijing Normal University (three times in a row)
• 2010 - 2014 National Scholarship from the Chinese Ministry of Education (twice in a row); First Class Scholarship from Northeastern University of China (six times in a row)

Membership

• WERA Task Force Extended Education
• Section Intercultural and International Comparative Education, DGfE

Monograph

Ning, H. (2023). Der Mediendiskurs zu Referenzgesellschaften und PISA: Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Festlandchina aus einer postkolonialen Perspektive [The Media Discourse on Reference Societies and PISA: A Comparison between Germany and Mainland China from a Postcolonial Perspective]. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag.

Book translation

Sun, J., Ning, H. (2020). 德国中小学教育体系概览：产生、结构与调控 [Origin, Structure, and Steering of the German School System: An Introduction]. Beijing: Educational Science Publishing House. Von: Van Ackeren, I., Klemm, K., & Kühn, S. M. (2015). Entstehung, Struktur und Steuerung des deutschen Schulsystems: Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Journal articeles

Ning, H., Schmidt, J., Lilla, N., & Schüpbach, M. (2022). Educational Success and Social Participation of Socially and Educationally Disadvantaged Students with Migration Background in Extended Education. IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 10(1), 75–78.

Sun, J., Ning, H. (2015). 德国作为留学目的地国之魅力溯源——兼析德国吸引留学生的国际化政策 [Explaining Germany's attractiveness as a study abroad destination: An analysis of internationalisation policies to attract foreign students]. 比较教育研究 [Comparative Education Review], 12: 1-8

Book chapter

Ning, H., Sun, J. (2020). Studiengewinn und Studienzufriedenheit chinesischer Studierender an deutschen Universitäten [Study Attainment and Satisfaction of Chinese Students at German Universities]. In S. Robak, B. Zizek, C. Hu & M. Stroth (Hrsg.), Forschungszusammenarbeit China-Deutschland: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und transkulturelle Perspektiven (p. 169-186). Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag.

Presentation and poster

Ning, H., Schmidt, J., Lilla, N., & Schüpbach, M. (2022, November). Educational Focus of Extended Education in Different Countries and Regions: An International Comparison. Presentation at the 2022 Virtual Conference of the WERA-International Research Network in Extended Education. Cambridge, USA.

Ning, H., Waldow, F. (2022, August). Transnational Regions as Reference Societies in German and Chinese Media Discourses on PISA: A comparison from a postcolonial perspective. Presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2022 in Jerewan, Armenien.

Ning, H. (2021, November). Der Mediendiskurs zu Referenzgesellschaften und PISA: Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Festlandchina aus der Perspektive des Postkolonialismus [The Media Discourse on Reference Societies and PISA: A Comparison between Germany and Mainland China from the Perspective of Postcolonialism]. Presentation at the 5th DAAD East Asian Centres Conference in Tokyo, Japan [Online].

Ning, H. (2019, October). Welcome Culture or Welcome Realism? Integration of Students with migration backgrounds at German Universities. Presentation at the International South School CDEA 2019 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Ning, H. (2019, April). Media Discourse on PISA and Reference Societies in China: People's Daily as Example. Poster at the Conference for Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2019 in San Francisco, USA.

Ning. H. (2019, January). Der Mediendiskurs zu PISA in Deutschland und China: aus der Perspektive des „Policy Borrowing and Lending“ [The Media Discourse on PISA in Germany and China: From the Perspective of "Policy Borrowing and Lending"]. Presentation at the Third Berlin Doctoral Colloquium of the Center for German Studies (ZDS) in Berlin, Germany.

Ning, H. (2018, June). Was konnten Sie beim Studium erreichen? Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Studienerfahrung chinesischer Studierender an deutschen Universitäten [What were you able to achieve while studying? An empirical study on the study experience of Chinese students at German universities]. Presentation at the International Conference "Europe from Outside/Europe from Within" in Wrocław, Poland.