Dr Yuchen Wang
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Personal statement
I am a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Strathclyde Institute of Education. My research interests include inclusive education, children and young people's participation, sustainable development, and technology. I have led research projects funded by the ESRC, the NERC and the British Council. I was a co-editor for the award-winning book ‘Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education: Speculative Futures and Emerging Practices’. I was also a core member of the writing group which produced the 3rd edition of Scotland's 'National Framework for Inclusion'.
I am the module leader of ‘Inclusive Pedagogy’ (PGCert Inclusive Education), and a co-lead of the interdisciplinary Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training ‘Human-centred AI Technologies for Inclusion in Education and Society’. Below is a list of my current doctoral students:
Xunrou Shen. Rethinking parental engagement under the Covid-19 crisis through a Froebelian lens: bringing young children’s voices to the front.
Jingyi Yang. Understanding anti-racist pedagogy in British classrooms.
Noor Ul Ain. Artificial Intelligence in inclusive education: teachers’ perspectives.
Ashwitha Devasya. Classroom engagement analysis and feedback using multimodal emotion recognition.
Prize And Awards
- 2020 Springer Nature China New Development Awards
- Recipient
- 2020
Publications
- Doing ethics without a ‘Map’ : How Chinese researchers develop ethical awareness in research with children
- Guo Kaidong, Zhu Yan, Gao Jie, Xu Yuwei, Wang Yuchen, Qu Xiao
- International Journal of Educational Research Vol 136 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102914
- Affective state recognition in online learning : A deep learning approach with data augmentation
- Devasya Ashwitha, Abel Andrew, Wang Yuchen, Jia Laibing
- 2025 20th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) 20th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation & Personalization, pp. 108-113 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/SMAP66932.2025.00027
- Classroom engagement analysis and feedback using MER
- Devasya Ashwitha, Abel Andrew, Wang Yuchen, Jia Laibing
- BERA Annual Conference 2025 (2025)
- Conceptual clarity : The missing link in the implementation of AI technologies for inclusive education
- Wang Yuchen
- AI and the future of education: Disruptions, dilemmas and directions (2025) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.54675/KECK1261
- Inclusion: every teacher's responsibility : reflecting on developing the National Framework for Inclusion 3rd edition
- Cantali Di, Darling-McQuistan Kirsten, Dey Donna, Foley Yvonne, Graham Archie, Priestley Andrea, Wang Yuchen
- Scottish Educational Review Vol 56, pp. 48-67 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1163/27730840-bja10023
- Like water : feeling and negotiating relational complexity in school-based ethnographic childhood research in china through the lens of emotional reflexivity
- Zhu Yan, Wang Yuchen
- Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Vol 53, pp. 516-543 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416241246114
Research Interests
- Inclusion and diversity in education
- Student voice
- Disability rights
- Sustainable development
- Intersections of technology and inclusive education
Professional Activities
- Policy and practice of inclusive education in Scotland
- Speaker
- 11/12/2025
- Strathclyde-BNU seminar: The Changing Hearts and Minds for Inclusive Education in the Early Years Project
- Organiser
- 10/12/2025
- Children and Society (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 12/2025
- Inclusion & intelligence: The 3rd International Conference on High-Quality Development of Special Education
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 11/2025
- The tensions between inclusive and special education in the AI era
- Speaker
- 10/2025
- BERA Annual Conference 2025
- Speaker
- 9/2025
Projects
- Developing teaching professionals’ knowledge and skills in AI technologies for inclusive and equitable education
- Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator) Abel, Andrew (Co-investigator) Jia, Laibing (Co-investigator) Noor Ul Ain, N (Researcher) Mevawalla, Zinnia (Co-investigator) Catlin, Jane (Co-investigator) Devasya, Ashwitha (Researcher) Tripathy, Aditi (Researcher) Nikou, Stavros (Co-investigator) Roxburgh, David (Co-investigator) Robinson, Deborah (Co-investigator)
- This project is to co-design a professional learning programme on AI and inclusive education with teachers and student teachers, funded by EPSRC (£9,961).
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Advancing inclusive education in China
- Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator) Deng, Meng (Co-investigator) Zhang, Yuexin (Co-investigator) Qu, Xiao (Co-investigator)
- A book project that brings together the latest research on disability-inclusive educational development in China
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Inclusive education across borders: a collaborative summer school for global sustainable development
- Roxburgh, David (Principal Investigator) Wang, Yuchen (Co-investigator) Wang, Yan (Co-investigator) Zhang, Yuexin (Co-investigator) Fu, Wangqian (Co-investigator)
- ESRC IAA (£4,700)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 10-Jan-2025
- ASN & Inclusion: Here and now, co-creating everyday possibilities for the inclusion of every child
- Catlin, Jane (Principal Investigator) Mevawalla, Zinnia (Principal Investigator) Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator)
- This session is for all educators who wish to deepen and extend
their thinking around working with and for an increasingly diverse learning
community. We will explore concepts from key scholars in the field of
inclusive education to unpack what ‘inclusion’ and ‘additional support
needs’ should mean for practice. We offer an opportunity to develop
strengths-based perspectives and identify positive actions we can all take on
these pressing issues for our current times. - 11-Jan-2025 - 11-Jan-2025
- Here and now: Co-creating everyday possibilities for the inclusion of every child
- Catlin, Jane (Principal Investigator) Mevawalla, Zinnia (Principal Investigator) Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator)
- 21-Jan-2024 - 21-Jan-2024
- Going Global Partnership: Co-developing transnational, innovative and culturally-sensitive approaches for quality and equitable inclusive education
- Roxburgh, David (Principal Investigator) Wang, Yuchen (Co-investigator)
- 08-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
Contact
Dr
Yuchen
Wang
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Email: wang.yuchen@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8049