Professor Sin-Wang Chong is a Visiting Professor in Education at King’s Business School. Sin-Wang is a Director of Research and Director of Impact and Innovation at the International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of St Andrews.

He founded the Centre for International, Language and Teacher Education Research (CILTER) and is the Inaugural Director. Previously, he has held academic and teaching positions in Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, most recently as Associate Professor in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh.

Sin-Wang's research programme focuses on ways evidence can be synthesised and communicated to be useful to teachers, leaders and policymakers, especially in language education, teacher education, and higher education. He is also an advocate for democratising education research through interdisciplinary and interprofessional research activities.

His research interests are:

• Evidence synthesis methodologies
• Research-practice integration
• Qualitative research
• Practitioner research

Sin-Wang has over 70 publications in leading journals in higher education and language education and has been involved in research projects worth over £3 million funded by the British Council, Education Endowment Foundation, Department for Education in England, Nuffield Foundation and more.

Sin-Wang is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics (Taylor & Francis), Founding Editor-in-Chief of St Andrews Journal of International and Language Education (SAJILE) (starting 2025), Editor of Review of Education (Wiley/BERA), Associate Editor and Research Syntheses Editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Taylor & Francis) (SSCI-indexed), and Section Editor of 'Education and Language' in Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd edition). Sin-Wang is a Co-Editor of Web Case Studies of Research Ethics of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). Sin-Wang sits on the editorial review boards of a number of international refereed journals, including as one of the seven International Editorial Board members of the prestigious Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (IF: 4.1). He is a regular reviewer for over 30 leading journals in higher education and language education, and academic publishers. Sin-Wang is a grant assessor of The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Sin-Wang is a Senior Fellow of HEA, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Top 2% researcher in Education in 2023 and 2024, according to the 'Elsevier-Stanford List'.

Sin-Wang is the Immediate Past Chair of the Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (SATEFL). He serves on the governing councils of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) in the capacity of Council Member, Executive Committee Member, and Website Editor.

Professor Chong is currently not accepting PhD students.