Associated Professor Zhao Dan

Basic Information
Associated Professor ZHAO Dan, born in Tangshan City, Hebei Province in December 1982, is a master supervisor. She graduated from Hebei University as an undergraduate in 2005. She received her Master and Doctoral Degree in Economics of Education from Huazhong Normal University in 2008 and 2011 respectively. She had been doing research on China Scholarship Council (CSC) Fellowship at Faculty of Built Environment, the University of New South Wales, Australia from September, 2009 to October, 2010, and Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria from June to September in 2013. She now is the deputy director of Research Center of Rural Society of Northwest A&F University.

Research Fields
Economics of education, rural education development, educational plannng.

Courses & Subjects
Associated Professor Zhao is mainly dedicated to the teaching and research of the Economics of Education, educational development and planning. She took the charge of teaching undergraduates the Economics, Public Policy Making and Theory of Leadership and other curricular. In addition, she taught masters the Economics of Education, Theory of Teaching and Curriculum and other courses. Up to now, she is supervising five master degree candidates.

Academic Achievements
In recent years, Associated Professor Zhao has participated in one Natural Science Fund of the State, hosted the Social Science Grant funded from MOE once. She has published more than thirty papers in such journals as Asia Pacific Education review (SSCI Indexed), the Asia Pacific Education researcher (SSCI Indexted), Education and Economics, Research of Educational Development, and the Journal of Educational Studies,…etc.  Additionally, she has published two monographs as the sole author, and was also the cooperated author of two books. In 2011, she got the "outstanding doctoral dissertation award” issued by academic evaluation committee of Hubei Province, her doctoral dissertation was focusing on the topic of small rural school development and educational equity in rural china.

Contact Details
Address: College of Humanities and Social Development, Northwest A & F University, No.22 Xinong Road, Yangling, Shaanxi
Post Code: 712100
Telephone: 029-87092324(office)
E-mail: zhaodan821225@hotmail.com