Professor Sin-Wang Chong , PhD

Prof, SFHEA, FRSA

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Sin-Wang (Ph.D., SFHEA, FRSA) is Director of Impact and Innovation and Director of Research at the International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute, University of St Andrews. Concurrently, he is Honorary Research Professor, Head of Evidence Synthesis, and Chair of the Research Ethics at the National Institute of Teaching in England, sitting on the Senior Leadership Team overlooking the research function of the institute. Sin-Wang is Visiting Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, having (had) other visiting and adjunct appointments at universities in England, the United States, and United Arab Emirates. Sin-Wang is named a Top 2% Scientist in Education in 2023 and 2024, according to the "Elsevier-Stanford List".

Previously, he has held academic and teaching positions in Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, most recently as Associate Professor in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. Sin-Wang's research programme focuses on ways evidence can be synthesised and communicated to be useful to teachers, leaders and policymakers, especially in language education, teacher education, and higher education.

Sin-Wang is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics (Taylor & Francis), Founding Editor-in-Chief of St Andrews Journal of International and Language Education (SAJILE) (starting 2025), Editor of Review of Education (Wiley/BERA), Associate Editor and Research Syntheses Editor of  Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Taylor & Francis) (SSCI-indexed), and Section Editor of "Education and Language" in Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd edition). Sin-Wang is Co-Editor of Web Case Studies of Research Ethics of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). Sin-Wang sits on the editorial review boards of a number of international refereed journals, including as one of the seven International Editorial Board members of the prestigious Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (IF: 4.1). He is a regular reviewer for over 30 leading journals in higher education and language education, and academic publishers. Sin-Wang is a grant assessor of The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Sin-Wang is Immediate Past Chair of Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (SATEFL). He serves on the governing councils of  British Educational Research Association (BERA) and British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) in the capacity of Council Member, Executive Committee Member, and Website Editor. Sin-Wang was Research Lead and a member of the BERA Ethical Guidelines Review Group, conducting desk-based research on current ethical guidelines in educational research and advising BERA on the next edition of their ethical guidelines. At BERA, Sin-Wang also co-convenes the Early Career Researcher Network. At BAAL, Sin-Wang founded and convenes the Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group. At International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Sin-Wang co-founded the Open Scholarship in Applied Linguistics Research Network.  Sin-Wang is Founding Member of Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's University Belfast. 

Sin-Wang is founder and co-director (with Masatoshi Sato) of the knowledge exchange project, TESOLgraphics, creating open-access, one-page infographic summaries of secondary research in TESOL for English teachers. TESOLgraphics is also on Twitter. Sin-Wang is co-founder and co-director (with Shannon Mason) of Scholarly Peers, a platform to support doctoral students and early career researchers to navigate journal peer review.  Scholarly Peers currently has a website, a Twitter account, and a podcast. He is coordinator (with Shannon Mason) of the Thesis by Publication website, a collection of resources for supporting doctoral researchers to publish during their candidature. 

Sin-Wang is/has been a PI and Co-I of 12 projects amounting to a total of over £3 million funded by the British Council, Education Endowment Foundation, Department for Education in England, Nuffield Foundation etc., leading teams of research fellows and assistants.

Sin-Wang is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Research interests

  • Evidence synthesis
  • Educational and language assessment
  • Research-practice integration
  • Computer-assisted language learning

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education

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