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Hongxia Shan
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Research
Latest papers
Centring adult learners and recognitive justice: work-integrated learning for internationally educated health professionals in Canada.
Zeitschrift fur Weiterbildungsforschung - report · 2026 · first author
Fostering diversity work as a process of lifelong learning: A partnership case study with an immigrant services organisation.
International review of education. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft. Revue internationale de pedagogie · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $61,502
Highly Skilled Migrants in Global Cities (SKIM): Exploring Complex Pathways, Motivations, and Experiences
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $31,050
Microeconomics of Competitive Information Acquisition and Marketplace Design for Heterogeneous Goods
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $65,320
Adult Learning and Education in Immigrant Settlement and Integration (ALE-in-ISI) Partnership
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
Centring adult learners and recognitive justice: work-integrated learning for internationally educated health professionals in Canada.
Shan H, Yoo J
Fostering diversity work as a process of lifelong learning: A partnership case study with an immigrant services organisation.
Shan H, Cheng A, Peikazadi N, Kim Y
Highly Skilled Migrants in Global Cities (SKIM): Exploring Complex Pathways, Motivations, and Experiences
Principal investigators: Molho, Jeremie
Keywords: Global cities; highly skilled migrants; human mobility; urban policy; transnational professional fields
Microeconomics of Competitive Information Acquisition and Marketplace Design for Heterogeneous Goods
Principal investigators: Severinov, Sergei
Keywords: information acquisition; microeconomics; competition; signaling; market design; competing mechanisms; auctions; land trading; decentralization
Adult Learning and Education in Immigrant Settlement and Integration (ALE-in-ISI) Partnership
Principal investigators: Shan, Hongxia
Keywords: Adult Learning and Education System; Immigrant Integration; Political Economy of Adult Learning and Education; Comparative and International Research; Mixed Methods; Case Studies; Policy Studies; Program Provision; Program Participation
Doing "diversity" in practice:Immigrants and knowledge "transfer" in engineering and healthcare
Principal investigators: Shan, Hongxia
Keywords: knowledge transfer; workforce diversity; knowing in practice; immigrant studies; social identities; Canada
An intersectional analysis of assistive technology access and utilization across cultural groups
Principal investigators: Mortenson, William B.
Keywords: assistive technology; culture; intersectionality
Expanding organizational capacity to afford professional learning: A project with immigrant services providers in the context of diversity work
Principal investigators: Shan, Hongxia
Keywords: professional learning; diversity work; diversity management; models of difference; immigrant services workers; case study; arts-informed research; socio-cultural learning; socio-material learning
The hard working student: a Canadian study
Principal investigators: Taylor, Alison
Keywords: university students; work; transitions; learning
Learning as boundary crossing practice: An exploratory study of immigrants in the engineering profession in Canada
Principal investigators: Shan, Hongxia
Keywords: professional learning; socio-cultural differences; learning as boundary crossing practices; socio-cultural perspectives of learning; Socio-material perspectives of learning; career stories; key information interviews; document analysis; strength-based policies and practice; immigrant engineers
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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