Doctoral Student, Department of Educational Studies
kdm852@mail.ubc.ca
Keenan Daniel MANNING, is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in the ways in which minoritised citizens (particularly ‘ethnic minorities’) are positioned, or not, in the ways ‘Hong Kong’ is constructed as a concept. His research particularly focuses on the conceptualisations of Hong Kong produced through higher education and academic scholarship and how these work to include, marginalise, or exclude minoritised subjects. His research centres around concepts of citizenship (particularly cultural citizenship), identity, representation, and belonging. He has previously published on a range of topics including: citizenship and belonging in education; inclusivity; internationalisation of higher education; international student mobility; and, higher education administration and policy.
PUBLICATIONS
Mohamad, D., & Manning, K. D. (2023). What Does it Mean to ‘Belong’?: A Narrative Literature Review of ‘Belongingness’ Among International Higher Education Students. Journal of International Students, 15(1). doi: 10.32674/jis.v15i1.5783
Manning, K. D. (2023). Citizenship and Education in Hong Kong: A Review of Contemporary Academic Literature. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52(3), 542-559. doi: 10.1177/18681026221145406
Manning, K. D., & Yuen, C. Y.-M. (2023). Inclusivity of the Hong Kong Higher Education System: A Critical Policy Analysis, Asia Pacific Journal of Education. doi: 10.1080/02188791.2023.2251709
Oleksiyenko, A. V., Chan, S.-J., Kim, S. K., Lo, W. Y. W., & Manning, K. D. (2021). World class universities and international student mobility: Repositioning strategies in the Asian Tigers. Research in Comparative and International Education, 16(3), 295-317. doi: 10.1177/17454999211039298
Manning, K. D. (2021). Textual Analysis of University Mission Statements in East Asian World-Class Universities, Higher Education Evaluation and Development, 15(1), 19-34. doi: 10.1108/HEED-09-2020-0033
Manning, K. (2019), Motivational factors among international postgraduate students in Hong Kong and Taiwan, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 22(1), pp. 82-100. doi: 10.1108/IJCED-03-2019-0022
Manning, K., Kushnazarov, M., & Oleksiyenko, A. (2019). Contested Meanings of International Student Mobility in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Educational Practice and Theory, 41(1), 51-69. doi: 10.7459/ept/41.1.04
PRESENTATIONS
Manning, K. D., & Padmanabhan, D. (2025). Problematising the ‘ethnic minority’ label: belonging, identity, and nomenclature in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies Association 2025 Conference.
Manning, K. D. (2025). Framing the minoritised citizen within and through Hong Kong academic knowledge production, Higher Education Research Association Conference 2025.
Manning, K. D. (2025). Reading Citizenship in Hong Kong Through the History of Higher Education, International Graduate Student Research Symposium, University of British Columbia.
Manning, K. D. (2025). Identity, belonging, and citizenship among ethnic minority higher education students in Hong Kong, EDST Doctoral Colloquium, University of British Columbia
Sriram-Uzundal, N., Manning, K. D., Klaus-Springer, I., Karim, S., Shahriari, F., Lucena, L., & Ali, K. W. Theorised Identities – Race, Class, and Gender in the Field of Education, Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University [Panel Series]
- (2024). Race in the Field of Education
- (2024). Class in the Field of Education
- (2025). Gender in the Field of Education
Manning, K. D. (2024). What is Hong Kong? Chan Koon-chung’s ‘Hong Kong as Method’ approach, Hong Kong Studies Association 2024 Conference.
Manning, K. D. (2024). State-constructed nation(alism) and its implications for the inclusion of minority students in higher education: the case from Hong Kong, Higher Education Research Association Conference 2024.