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Dr. Xiaotong Zhu is a Research Fellow in the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute (LHERI) at the University of Lincoln. Xiaotong is passionate about improving learning experience of students from diverse backgrounds. Her main research interests include attainment gaps, international education, student engagement, assessment and feedback in higher education, for which she carries out quantitative and mixed methods research studies. Xiaotong also has rich experience of analysing quantitative data using SPSS and conducting meta-analysis using CMA.