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.

Her work focuses on the intersection of public administration and management. Ting’s research interests include public management, leadership, diversity, and performance feedback. She has two ongoing research streams. The first, based on her doctoral research, explores the causes and consequences of gender diversity in top management teams (TMTs) in the public sector. Specifically, she studies the visible and invisible barriers that prevent women from reaching and succeeding in leadership roles. Drawing on data and experiments, she helps identify strategies to build more inclusive workplaces that unlock the full potential of both people and organisations. 

The second research stream examines how public managers, and the governments in which they operate, navigate competing policy priorities. She focuses on how public leaders make decisions and allocate attention when faced with multiple, often conflicting, demands and objectives. Drawing on registered data, she aims to better understand how public managers can better balance these priorities in practice and how their choices shape performance and strategic outcomes.

Ting’s work has appeared in leading journals in public administration, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, and International Journal of Public Administration. She received the 2026 Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Society for Public Administration, and the Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021, PNP Division. Her systematic literature review on public sector top managers was recognised as the Top-Viewed Article among work published in Public Administration Review in 2023.

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, organisational behavior, and government-firm relations.

Google Scholar

Centre and Group Membership

• Public Management and Regulation Group

Publications

• Hu, L., Guan, X., Huang, T. *, & Villadsen, A. R. (2026). Bridging Hierarchy and Network: Network Multiplexity in Multi-Level Policy Implementation in China. International Journal of Public Administration, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2026.2641192
• 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, 2026
• 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

Guest Speaking on Publishing in International Top Journals in Public Administration:

• 2025, School of Public Administration, East China Normal University
• 2025, School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University
• 2024, Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2024, Young Scholars' Yuelu Forum, School of Public Administration, Hunan University
• 2024, "Golden Thumb Class" Lecture Series, College of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University

Ting is an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 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 co-organised the 1^st Workshop on Women and Public Management with Dr Juan Du from East China Normal University in Shanghai in 2025. She has been co-organising 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.