Mattia Miani

Deputy Head of CELE; Director Of Education & Student Experience (PY Content)

Centre for English Language Education

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 

Master of Science (Creative Studies) – New York State University

EMBA – University of Bologna

Bachelor of Science – Laurea (Communication) – University of Bologna

Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning – RMIT University

Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design – University of Wisconsin-Stout

Mattia Miani holds a bachelor degree in Communication Sciences and a Master of Science in Creative Studies from New York State University.

Mr Miani is also a certified trainer, instructional designer and lecturer having achieved an Australian Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning, an American Graduate

Certificate in Instructional Design, an Australian Diploma of Training Design and Development and an Australian Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. He has logged more than 4000 hours of teaching at all levels: executive, postgraduate, undergraduate and vocational.

Before joining Nottingham in Ningbo, he worked for 6 years in Vietnam at RMIT University holding a variety of roles: lecturer, manager of enterprise and executive education and manager of co-curricular education. For his work in training in Vietnam in 2014 he received a Creativity Achievement Award from the International Centre in Studies of Creativity at the New York State University and in 2011 he was recognized by RMIT University Vietnam as its best teacher of the year.

From 2003 to 2010 he worked in Italy as a lecturer and academic director at the business school of the University of Bologna and as a marketing consultant and entrepreneur advising cooperative enterprises, advertising agencies, and government organisations on their communication strategies. From 2005 to 2010 he served as an executive vice president of an advertising agency in Bologna. From 2008 to 2011 Mr Miani served as a director on the board of the Centre for Training and Initiative on Cooperative Enterprise and Business Ethics, a joint venture between the University of Bologna and the Italian Cooperative Movement. Before coming to Asia, Mr Miani spent time on international assignments in the United States, Canada, Austria, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He is also a certified trainer and administrator of a number of instruments including MBTI®, Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI®), The Leadership Challenge™, Situational Leadership Assessment, Color Code®.

Introduction to Business Economics

Introduction to Business and Management

Current research interests include change and training transfer in professional learning contexts, creative thinking in education, transnational education, and the teaching with the case method.

From 2001 to 2010 Mr Miani specialized in government communication, political communication and new technologies, and corporate communication strategies.

Mattia Miani & Shih-Ching (Susan) Picucci-Huang. (2023) Learning and Teaching in Transnational Education in China: Voices from Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities, Chinese Education & Society, 56:5-6, 303-308, DOI: 1080/10611932.2024.2303912

Mattia Miani & Shih-Ching (Susan) Picucci-Huang. (2023) Collaborative Transnational Education in China: A Scoping Review of Emerging Research Trajectories (2016–2023), Chinese Education & Society, 56:5-6, 309-330, DOI: 1080/10611932.2024.2303913

Mattia Miani, Miao Wang & Shih-Ching (Susan) Picucci-Huang. (2023) 4 Is and a Dandelion: A Conceptual Framework to Address the Curriculum Development Challenges of Sino-British Foundation Years in China, Chinese Education & Society, 56:5-6, 413-434, DOI: 1080/10611932.2024.2303935

Mattia Miani. (2023) Brainstorming can breathe new life into your classes, Times Higher Education. Available at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/brainstorming-can-breathe-new-life-your-classes

Mattia Miani. (2023) Making Sense of Brainstorming in Transnational Education: The Challenge of Contextualization. In Handbook of Research on Developments and Future Trends in Transnational Higher Education, edited by G.R. Morris and L. Li, IGI, 2023, pp. 21-38.

Mattia Miani. (2023) Using Design Thinking to Drive Curriculum Innovation: An Autoethnographic Account from a Foundation Year in a British University in China. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education, Hong Kong, 4-6 July 2023, pp. 325-337

Mattia Miani, Miao Wang & Shih-Ching (Susan) Picucci-Huang. (2022) 4 Is: A Conceptual Framework to Drive Curriculum Development in Transnational Foundation Years in Mainland China. Foundation Year Network Journal, 5, 111-123. Available at: https://jfyn.co.uk/index.php/ukfyn/article/view/79

Mattia Miani. (2020) Using instructional design to engage students in the development of educational experiences: The case of multimedia case studies. Chapter in Meeting the Teaching and Learning Challenges in 21st Century Higher Education: Universal Design edited by Tina Byrom, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mattia Miani. (2016) Does culture affect creativity? Chapter in The Big Question 2016 edited by Paul Reali and Cindy Burnett (peer-reviewed).

Mattia Miani. (2016) New Media, chapter in Bernardi A., Monni S., (eds.), The Co-operative firm, Keywords, RomaTrE-Press, Roma.

Jeremy Pearce, Mattia Miani, Michael Segon, & Bang Nguyen (2015) Ethical Marketing: Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, & Indonesia, chapter 5 in Ethical and social marketing in Asia edited by Bang Nguyen & Chris Rowley.

Andrea Bernardi & Mattia Miani. (2014) “The long march of Chinese co-operatives: Towards market economy, participation and sustainable development.” Asia Pacific Business Review, vol. 20, issue 3 (peer-reviewed).

Mattia Miani & Giovanni Merola (2012) The perception of Italian Brands in Vietnam: A survey on country of origin effect and linguistic impact of Italian sounding brand names on Vietnamese urban consumers, research report, Italian Embassy in Vietnam: Hanoi.