Xingmin Han
PhD Candidate, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University (expected conferral May 2027)
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About
My doctoral research examines how policy, schools and external sport providers shape children's physical education in China, and how responsibility for PE is being redistributed between teachers and coaches. I combine policy analysis, interviews and surveys, and have published on AI in health education and on physical activity among university students. Drawing on prior work as a primary PE teacher and community yoga studio founder, I seek to develop sociocultural research on youth sport, physical activity, wellbeing and belonging, including the roles of gender, community and migration, with a cross-cultural lens (China, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand).
Experience
Founder and Yoga Instructor - community yoga studio, China - China
(2015 - 2019)
- Ran the studio and taught classes; delivered an after-school yoga program in a primary school as an external provider, the kind of school–coach partnership later examined in my PhD.
Primary School Physical Education Teacher - China - China
(2010 - 2011)
Education
PhD (Integrated) - Victoria University, Australia (2024)
MSc - Sports Business and Management (Merit) - University of Liverpool, UK (2020 - 2021)
Bachelor - Public Administration (Education Management) - Open University of China / Northeast Normal University (2013 - 2013)
Diploma - Chinese Language Education (Primary) - Taiyuan University, China (2005 - 2010)
