Meng Liu is a PhD graduate from the Second Language Education Group, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Meng's substantive research interest lies in the psychology of language learning, concerning topics such as motivation, self-concept, multilingualism and interculturality. She is also passionate about research methodology, with a particular interest in quantitative and mixed methods research, research synthesis and metascience. She is the co-convenor of Open Applied Linguistics, an AILA research network dedicated to promoting open scholarship in applied linguistics.