Professor Sin-Wang Chong is a Visiting Professor in Education at King’s Business School. Sin-Wang is a Director of Research and Director of Impact and Innovation at the International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of St Andrews.

He founded the Centre for International, Language and Teacher Education Research (CILTER) and is the Inaugural Director. Previously, he has held academic and teaching positions in Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, most recently as Associate Professor in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh.

Sin-Wang's work straddles Applied Linguistics and Education but often focuses on questions of metascience, the study of the production, evaluation, and use of research, and who gets to be part of that process, and on what terms. His work in evidence synthesis, research ethics, and academic publishing consistently reflects such a metascientific principle: that pedagogical and applied research is only as useful as the systems that allow people to find, participate in, and apply it.

Sin-Wang has over 100 publications and has been involved in research projects worth over £3 million. He is also the lead of a research contract with the UK Government's Department for Education worth £2 million, conducting government-commissioned, high-impact evidence syntheses on teacher education. Sin-Wang is named a Top 2% Scientist in Education since 2023 (the 'Elsevier-Stanford List') and is the author of multiple top 1% research publications, according to Clarivate’s Essential Science Indicators.

Sin-Wang is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics (Taylor & Francis), Editor of Review of Education (Wiley/BERA), Associate Editor and Research Syntheses Editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Taylor & Francis) (SSCI-indexed), and Section Editor of 'Education and Language' in Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd edition). Sin-Wang is Co-Editor of Web Case Studies of Research Ethics of the British Educational Research Association (BERA). Sin-Wang sits on the editorial review boards of a number of international refereed journals, including as one of the seven International Editorial Board members of the prestigious journal, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (SSCI, IF:4.1). He is a regular reviewer for over 60 leading journals in higher education and language education. Sin Wang is a grant assessor for The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Sin-Wang is a Principal Fellow of HEA and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In August 2026, he was recognised as the first National Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews for his achievements in educational leadership around AI in learning and teaching, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Professor Chong is not currently accepting PhD students.