Dr Ting Huang

Profile

Roles:

• Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Management
• Member of the Department of Business and Society

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 QMUL, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

Ting’s research investigates public management, leadership, diversity, and organisational behavior. In one line of research, she focuses on strategic leadership 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 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, International Public Management Journal.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• BUS328: Managing Public Services

Postgraduate:

• BUSM145: Research Methods for Management

Research

Research Interests:

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

Centre and Group Membership

• Public Management and Regulation Group

Publications

• 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., and Villadsen, A. R. (2023). Top managers in public organizations: A systematic literature review and future research directions. Public Administration Review, puar.13628. 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
• Policy studies

Current Doctoral Students:

Ziyan Wu, co-supervised with Prof Gary Schwarz

Public Engagement

Ting’s research has been presented at a wide range of international conferences, including Academy of Management Annual Meeting, International Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference (IRSPM), Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), Global Chinese Urban Governance and Policy Conference, and Danish Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting (DPSA).

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, PNP Division.

She co-organized different workshops with 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.