Transnational Academic Mobility to Japan: Capital, Habitus, Agency and Social Network Embeddedness

Yifeng Hong concluded his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was an English lecturer at Rikkyo and Waseda universities in Tokyo, Japan for five years. He also taught ESL for immigrants in the U.S. for three years before relocating to Japan. He holds a M.S.Ed. in TESOL (PENN) and a B.A. in English (CSUST).

Hugo Horta is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong. He developed scholarly work in the United States, The Netherlands, Japan, and Portugal during his PhD studies and postdoctoral position. He also worked outside academia, as Advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of State of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, and as the Portuguese National delegate to the European Research Area Steering Committee on Human Resources and Mobility. His main topics of interest refer to academic research processes, outputs and outcomes (including research agendas and research productivity), academic mobility and knowledge dynamics, and career trajectories of PhD holders. He is currently one of the Editors-in-Chief of Higher Education, a leading journal of higher education studies, and sits in the advisory/editorial boards of several international higher education journals.