Professor Qiuling Chao is Vice President for Student Affairs and Information, Secretary of Party Committee at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and President at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Affiliated School. She is also a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Xi’an Jiaotong University. Professor Chao served as Deputy Head of the Educational Technology Department and Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Professor Chao’s main research area is psychology and higher education. She has conducted and participated in 25 research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and projects at provincial and ministerial level. She has participated in 3 projects with partnerships from abroad, and 12 key projects funded by the National Natural Science Fund of China. She published six monographs, translated three international monographs from English, and published over 50 papers in prominent international and domestic academic journals, including Times Higher Education, Current Psychology, China Higher Education, Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science, Psychological Science, Educational Research and Experiment, and others. She maintains long-term academic cooperation with the University of Liverpool, Yale University, UC Berkeley, Ohio State University, Queen's University and other internationally renowned universities.
At present, Professor Chao is also committed to social duties, including acting as vice chair of "The Belt and Road" Research Branch of China Association of Higher Education; member of the Expert Steering Committee on Mental Health Education for College Students; Standing Director of BEECHEA; a board member of the China Family Education Society; vice chair of the Committee on Early Childhood Care Services from the Chinese Association for Improving Birth Outcome and Child Development; Deputy Chair of Jiangsu Education Association for International Exchange, and others.
