Meng Liu is Assistant Professor at the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Associate at Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge. Meng earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on the motivation of Chinese students to learn multiple foreign languages. 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.