Dr TSAO, Jack
Associate Director and Senior Lecturer
Common Core Office, The University of Hong Kong
BEcon, BSc, MCom (Appl. Fin), PhD Qld, PFHEA
Principal Fellow, Higher Education Advance (UK)
PhD, Sociology of Education, The University of Queensland
MCom in Applied Finance, The University of Queensland
(852) 3917 4839
Room 139, Common Core Office, Main Building The University of Hong Kong
Research Areas
- Education futures
- Transdisciplinarity
- Sociology of education
- International and comparative education
- Artificial intelligence in education
► Publications
► Projects
► Awards
► Academic Service
► Publications
Edited Book
- Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Sims-Schouten, W., Tsao, J. (2026) Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation, UCL Press, London. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806550616
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Tsao, J. (2026) From mitigation to exploration: Reimagining teaching and learning with generative AI in higher education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2026.2726895
- Tsao, J. (2026) Aspirations as territorial assemblages: Refrains and the future imaginaries of university students in Hong Kong. British Journal of Sociology of Education https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2026.2685037
- Tsao, J., Liang, C., Nogues, C., Wong, S.M. (2026) Perceptions and integration of generative artificial intelligence in creative practices and industries: A scoping review and conceptual model. AI and Society. 41 (3), 2259-2278 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02667-2
- Tsao, J. (2025) Trajectories of AI policy in higher education: Interpretations, discourses, and enactments of students and teachers. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 8 (2025), Article 100496 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100496
- Tsao, J., Heinrichs, D.H., Camit, M. (2025) Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability: Towards a sympoeitic approach. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 1–13 https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2579702
- Hameed, S.A., Li, Y.C., Tsao, J. (2025) Navigating the neoliberal tensions during the Covid-19 pandemic: International Baccalaureate practices within Singapore, Hong Kong & Taiwan. The Australian Educational Researcher. 52, 3955–3979 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00884-8
- Heinrichs, D.H., Camit, M., Tsao, J. (2025) Response-able, collaborative adaptations of multilingual health messaging: A case study from Australia and Hong Kong. Critical Public Health. 35(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2025.2555211
- Law, N., Wang, N., Ma, M., Liu, Z., Lei, C.U., Feng, S. Hu, X., Tsao, J. (2025) The role of generative artificial intelligence in collaborative problem solving of authentic challenges. The British Journal of Educational Technology. 00, 1–21 http://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.70010
- Tsao, J., Alhadad, S., Heinrichs, D.H., Hameed, S.A., McLay, K. (2025) The digital-intercultural-transdisciplinary nexus: Online international exchanges for transdisciplinary education. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. 41(1), 27–41 https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.9620
- Tsao, J., Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Lam, A.M.H (2024) Institutionalising a transdisciplinary curriculum: assemblages, territories, and refrains. Higher Education. 89, 849–864 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01250-w
- Tsao, J., Nogues, C. (2024) Beyond the Author: Artificial Intelligence, Creative Writing, and Intellectual Emancipation. Poetics. 102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101865
- Li, Y.C., Tsao, J., Hameed, S.A. (2023) 學校內的教育全球化：國際文憑學校的觀Educational globalization in schools: Perspectives from IB schools. 當代教育研究季刊 Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly 32:3, 101 – 133 http://doi.org/10.6151/CERQ.202409_32(3).0004
- Tsao J, Li YC & Hameed, SA. (2022) Negotiating the Rapid Adoption of the International Baccalaureate programme by Teachers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Cambridge Journal of Education 54(1), 19–35 https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2246397
- Heinrichs, D.H, Hameed, S.A., Tsao, J., McLay, K., Huong, N., Alhadad, S. (2022) Mundane matters: Entangling moments of student well-being across cultures, time, space, and virtual world, Critical Studies in Education 65(3), 235–255. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2023.2252469
- Tsao J., Hardy I. & Lingard B. (2021) Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(2), 196–212 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1882836
- Tsao J., Hardy I. & Lingard B. (2018) Aspirational ambivalence of middle-class secondary students in Hong Kong, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39:8, 1094-1110 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2018.1456904
Book Chapters
- Li, YC., Tsao, J., Hameed, S.A. (2026). Creating Institutional Legitimacy of Internationality: International Baccalaureate Schools in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In: Chi-Kin Lee, J. (eds) Handbook of Asian Educational Innovation towards the Futures of Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3901-4_14-1
- Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Sims-Schouten W., Tsao, J. (2026) Introduction: transdisciplinary experiments for a more flourishing future. In G.M. Kochhar-Lindgren, W. Sims-Schouten & J. Tsao (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation. UCL Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.35802023.7
- Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Sims-Schouten W., Tsao, J. (2026) Coda: transdisciplinary experiments in motion. In G.M. Kochhar-Lindgren, W. Sims-Schouten & J. Tsao (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation. UCL Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.35802023.23
- Tsao, J. (2026) Artificial Intelligence and Transdisciplinary Playgrounds. In G.M. Kochhar-Lindgren, W. Sims-Schouten & J. Tsao (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation. (pp. 111–128). UCL Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.35802023.14
► Projects
Grants as Principal Investigator
- SDL NEXT: Institutional Ecosystem for Self-Directed Learning in the AI Era. UGC Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE) Inter-institutional Collaborative Activities (IICAs)
- Student-Led Research Leadership and Impact Award. UGC Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant
- Resilience and Integrity through Scenario-based Engagement (RISE). Inter-institutional Collaborative Activity (IICA) UGC Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant
- Future Readiness Capacities in a Postdigital AI Age. UGC Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant.
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hackathon for Social Good. University Grants Committee Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE).
- Exploring Applications of Artificial Intelligence Writing and Image Generative Technology in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. HKU Teaching Development Grant.
- Future Readiness: Leadership, Work, & Global Citizenship. University Grants Committee Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant.
- Gamification and Storytelling: Designing interdisciplinary teaching and learning experiences with students-as-partners. HKU Teaching Development Grant.
- Improvisation through the lens of Design Thinking to enhance the teaching capacities of tutors across the Common Core. HKU Teaching Development Grant.
- Digital Voices of Myanmar and Hong Kong Students. HKU Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund.
- Undergraduate interdisciplinary research and impact of peace and conflict through Rotary Peace Fellow Social Change Initiatives. HKU Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund.
- Cross-cultural well-being: Student experience through story, art, and film, a virtual exchange between HKU and the University of Queensland (UQ). HKU Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund.
► Awards
- 2023 Silver Winner of the QS Reimagine Education Awards for Developing Emerging Skills and Competencies – Transdisciplinarity for Future Readiness.
- 1st Runner Up Finalist of the 2023 University Grant Committee Teaching Award – Communication-Intensive Courses.
- Winner of the 2022 University of Hong Kong Outstanding Teaching Excellence Awards (Team) – Communication-Intensive Courses.
► Academic Service
Internal
- Committee of the Academic Board – Common Core Curriculum Committee, The University of Hong Kong
- Chair and Committee for Communication-Intensive Courses (CiC), The University of Hong Kong
- Committee for the Co-operative Education Programme, The University of Hong Kong
- Reviewer and Mentor for Advance Higher Education (HE) at The University of Hong Kong
- Member of the Research, Innovation, Strategic Partnerships, and Entrepreneurship (RISE) Working Group (Previously Techno-Entrepreneurship Core (TEC) Working Group) The University of Hong Kong
External
- External Examiner for the Core Curriculum at HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE) Community College
- Ambassador of the Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Alliance (HKTEA)
Editorial Board
- Board Member/ Handling Editor Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, Springer Nature