Xiaolin Lao

Since 2022, Xiaolin Lao has taught across two UCD schools, the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy and the School of Geography, as well as UCD’s transnational programme at Chang’an Dublin International College (CDIC). Her undergraduate and postgraduate teaching covers field-based planning (PLAN3003W), GIS and spatial analysis (PLAN2002W), Local Planning Studio (PLAN20030), Planning Studio: Plan Making (PLAN40160), and human and physical geography (GEOG10100, GEOG10080). Working with cohorts ranging from 10–15 students in tutorials to over 110 in transnational modules, her responsibilities have progressed from tutorial facilitation and assessment to teaching delivery, GIS instruction, teaching resource development, fieldwork coordination, and formative feedback.