Professor Sedat Gümüş received his PhD from the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State University, the United States, in 2012. After graduation, he worked at several institutions in Turkey and at Aarhus University in Denmark. He also served as a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia, the United States, from July 2015 to June 2016. Professor Gümüş joined The Education University of Hong Kong in 2021 as an Associate Professor and was Associate Head for Research and International Relations at the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership (EPL). He is currently serving as Associate Head (Internationalisation and Community Engagement) at EPL and Acting Director of The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC).



Professor Gümüş has over a decade of experience in educational leadership research in various contexts and has formed extensive networks with scholars and practitioners worldwide. He has co-edited one academic book and published over 70 journal papers and book chapters. His works have been featured in leading educational journals, such as Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Management Administration and Leadership, Educational Review, European Journal of Education, Higher Education, International Journal of Educational Research, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, and Teaching and Teacher Education.



Among his involvement in various international research projects, Professor Gümüş has led two significant projects as Principal Investigator. He recently completed a project on the effects of school leadership on student outcomes, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, and is currently leading a GRF project focusing on socially just instructional leadership in three different national contexts. As Co-Investigator, he is also currently involved in a donation project from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, aiming to support the sustainable development of Hong Kong school leaders to lead future-ready, inclusive schools.



Professor Gümüş received the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2025 from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and was named among Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists in 2024. In 2025, he ranked 15th globally in leadership research by ScholarGPS among more than 50,000 scholars ranked in the topic based on productivity, impact, and quality in the prior five years. He has also been invited as a speaker to conferences and seminars in countries around the world, including Chile, China, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Turkey, the UAE, and the United States.

Dr. Hongwei "Patrick" Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Leadership and Research, School of Education at the University of West Florida. His scholarship is found in quantitative methodology, psychometrics, survey research as well as in content areas including online teaching and learning, family science, human and animal medical care, among others.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş completed his undergraduate education in Educational Sciences at Istanbul University (2009) and his doctorate in Educational Administration at Michigan State University (2014). Bellibaş, who became an Associate Professor in 2017, became a Professor in the field of Educational Sciences in 2024. Prof. Bellibaş currently works for the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Prof. Bellibaş has more than 80 articles published in journals indexed in respected national and international directories. Prof. Bellibaş's research area is educational administration.

I am a professor of chemistry education. I have been teaching courses mainly on research methods in education and teaching and learning of science and chemistry at the secondary level. My research interests include teacher training, curriculum evaluation, how students learn in science/chemistry, undergraduates’ understandings of chemical ideas in thermodynamics, context-based teaching, problem-based learning, trends in science/chemistry education, and teaching science/chemistry to visually impaired students.
I have served in IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - www.iupac.org) Committee on Chemistry Education as a titular member (2008-2015) and chair (2016-2017). Currently, I am representing Turkey as a national representative in the same committee since 2018.
I am also a member of some national and international organizations serving in science or chemistry education as well as taking active roles such as board memberships and administrative duties. 

İbrahim Hakan Karataş, after his B.A. and M.A. in Turkish language and literature, earned his Ph.D. in educational leadership. Karatas is currently working as a professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University. His research interests include school administration, non-governmental organisations, and internationalization of higher education.

Dr. Turker Kurt is an professor of educational administration. He received his doctorate in educational administration from the Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. He has served as a teacher, a university professor, and a consultant to K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and non-profit professional organizations. Dr. Kurt was a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013-2014. Dr. Kurt teaches graduate level courses including educational reform and leadership, management of higher education, and school administration. Dr. Kurt teaches undergraduate level courses including introduction to educational sciences, classroom management, and educational sociology. Recently, he has studied as a visiting research associate at the University College London, Institute of Education in 2021-2022.
Dr. Kurt’s research focuses on the higher education policy, governance, and leadership with an emphasis on equity issues. He also runs research in educational leadership, education reform, and education finance.

Dr. Kurt has served on the editorial boards of peer reviewed journals including Journal of Research on Education and Society (JRES), International Journal of Psychology and Education Studies (IJPES), and UMT Education Review (UER). He is one of the founding members of the Association for Higher Education Studies (AHES) in Turkey and served as the vice president of the association between 2016-2020. Dr. Kurt has been actively contributing to organization of annual conference of International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC) since 2017.