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Dr Ting Huang

Ting

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Management

Email: ting.huang@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Room 3.34A, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus

Profile

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Biography:

Dr Ting Huang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Management. She holds a PhD in management from Aarhus University, and a double master’s degree in public management and social development from Copenhagen Business School and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before joining Queen Mary University of London, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

Ting’s research interests include public management, leadership, diversity, and organisational behavior. Her current work examines how public managers work individually and collectively to shape organisational and policy outcomes. In one line of research, she focuses on strategic leaders in public organizations. Specifically, she reviews research on top managers in public organizations, and examines the effect of executive succession and the causes of top management team diversity. In the second line of research, she explores the consequences of representative bureaucracy and gender diversity on policy and social outcomes from three perspectives, including the government, citizens, and their relations.

Her research has been published in leading journals in public management, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration, and International Public Management Journal.

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Research

Research Interests:

Ting’s research interests include public management, leadership, gender diversity, organizational behavior, and government-firm relations.

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Publications

  • Huang, T., Hassan, S., Villadsen, A. R., Yi, H. (2025). From Presence to Policy: The Conditional Impact of Women’s Representation in Top Management Teams in Chinese Local Governments. Public Administration 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.70007
  • Huang, T. (2024). Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 34(4), 515–531. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muae016
  • Huang, T., Villadsen, A. R., and Lu, C. (2024). Does executive turnover affect government transparency? Leadership changes and environmental information disclosure in Chinese cities. International Public Management Journal, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2284356
  • Huang, T., & Villadsen, A. R. (2023). Top managers in public organizations: A systematic literature review and future research directions. Public Administration Review, 83(6), 1618-1634. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13628

Supervision

Areas of Supervision Expertise:

Ting would be interested in supervising potential PhD students in the following areas:

  • Public management
  • Leadership, public executives
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Organisational behavior
  • Government-firm relations

Please send your PhD proposal and CV, detailing your research topic, methods, and potential data sources to discuss potential opportunities.

Current Doctoral Students:

Ziyan Wu, co-supervised with Professor Gary Schwarz

Public Engagement

Ting’s research has been presented at a wide range of international conferences, including:

  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), 2021, 2022, 2025
  • Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), 2022, 2025
  • International Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference (IRSPM), 2023, 2024
  • International Conference on China Policy Studies (ICCPS), 2025
  • Global Chinese Urban Governance and Policy Conference (GCUPC), 2023
  • Danish Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting (DPSA), 2022

She serves as a referee for top journals and conferences in the field of public administration and management, including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Review of Public Personnel Administration, International Journal of Public Administration, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. She received the Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021, PNP Division.

She co-organized different workshops with Prof Anders Villadsen at Sino-Danish Center, including workshops on leadership in public management, using ASReview for systematic literature reviews. She was a member of the Organizing Committee for the 8th e-HRM International Conference.

Grants

2025, SBM Large Grant Seed-corn Funding (£ 5,000), Queen Mary University of London.

2022, Grants for research visits (£9,100), William Demant Foundation, Otto Moensteds Foundation, and Aarhus University.

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