Staff Profile

Biography

Dr. Ava Xingmeng HUANG is a senior lecturer in Sports Management in Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Her particular interests lie on Olympic and Paralympic Movement, international elite sport policy, and social issues in sport.

Ava holds a PhD in elite sport policy and MSc in international sport management. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the Olympic gender equality policy implementation in national sport governing bodies. During her PhD study, she served as the researcher in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Paris Headquarters (UNESCO-Paris) for the project of eliminating doping in sport.

Before pursuing an academic career, Ava was a professional DanceSport athlete with the achievement of national champion in China. She also cares deeply about athlete development in sport and dance industry.

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• Olympic & Paralympic Studies
• Elite Sport Policy
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in Sport
• Sport & Gender Issues
• Sport & Youth

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Lau, W. C., Song, H., Li, Y., & Huang, X. (2022). Preschool Children's Sports Policy Development and Health since the Reform and Opening Up in China. Routledge Handbook of Sport in China. London: Routledge.

Journal Articles

• Yang, Z., Zhang, D., & Huang, A. X. (2025). Negotiating Sporting Identity in Divided Discursive Spaces: Nationalism and Localism in the Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup. Sport in Society, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2025.2552967
• Huang, X. A. & Lau, P. W. C. (2024). Gender Equality Policy of the Olympic Movement in Chinese Sport Governing Bodies: The Case of Elite Volleyball. Translational Exercise Biomedicine, 1(2), 135-143. https://doi.org/10.1515/teb-2024-0007
• Huang, X. (2021). An Investigation of Female Leadership in Public Sport Organisation: A Case Study of Edinburgh Leisure. Hong Kong Recreation Review, 33(4), 35-48.

Modified Date: 30 Dec, 2025
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