Meet the Volume Editors

Dr. Muhammad Azeem Ashraf is an associate professor at the Institute of Education, Hunan University, China. He obtained a bachelor's degree in clinical medicine from Shihezi University, China, in 2008 and a doctoral degree in educational leadership and policy (comparative education) from Beijing Normal University, China, in 2018. He has served as visiting faculty at Henan Institute of Science and Technology, China, from 2016 to 2019 and a lectur-

er at Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, China, from 2008 to 2011. He is the English editor of *University Education Science*. Dr. Ashraf has been a principal investigator of several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology, China. He has published more than forty papers in international peer-reviewed journals and books.

Dr. Samson Maekele Tsegay is a research fellow at the School of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He obtained an MA and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy (Comparative Education) on a Chinese Government Scholarship at Beijing Normal University, China. In 2020, he also completed another Ph.D. in Education and Social Justice at the University of Roehampton, UK. He was a recipient of the distinguished Sacred Heart Scholarship

from Roehampton University, UK. Before joining Beijing Normal University, Dr. Tsegay worked for about 10 years at the University of Asmara, Eritrea, and the National Board for Higher Education. He carried out various research projects and published many book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. Moreover, Dr. Tsegay serves as an editorial board member for different academic journals, such as *Teaching in Higher Education* and *Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education*.
