Dr Yuchen Wang
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Education
Personal statement
I am currently working at the School of Education as a Chancellor’s Fellow. My research interests include inclusive education, children and young people' voices and participation, sustainable development and technology. I completed my PhD research ‘Imagining Inclusive Schooling’ at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, which explored the experiences of disabled children and their teachers in Chinese mainstream schools through an ethnographic approach. Following that, I was awarded the ESRC GCRF Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘Counting Every Child In’ to engage key stakeholders to promote disabled children’s access to inclusive and quality education in China. Before joining Strathclyde, I worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Digital Education and developed funded projects to critically examine the relationships between inclusive education and technologies. One of the projects resulted in the publishing of a co-edited book ‘Artificial intelligence and inclusive education: speculative futures and emerging practices’, which won the 2020 Springer Nature New China Development award and is now being translated into Arabic. Recently, I led a NERC 'discipline hopping' networking project and established Strathclyde's Children and Young People Sustainablity Network. I was also a core member of the writing group which produced the 3rd version of Scotland's 'National Framework for Inclusion'.
I am the course co-coordinator for PGCert Inclusive Education (GTCS professional recognition certificate: Additional Support Needs 3-18) and the module co-leader of Inclusive Pedagogy. I regularly deliver professional development programmes for practitioners to build their capacity in inclusive practice. I am also a member of committees and groups including the Scottish Universities Inclusion Group, School of Education’s Global Engagement working group and the Strathclyde Early Years Hub.
I welcome prospective students who are interested in inclusion and diversity issues, international perspectives of inclusive educational development and student/child-led approaches to get in touch regarding supervision opportunities. Below is a list of some completed and on-going projects supervised by colleagues and myself in Strathclyde:
Maggie MacAskill. EdD. What agency do students with Complex Additional Support Needs have in educational subject choice and what are the factors that determine this?
Xunrou Shen. PhD. Rethinking Parental Engagement under the Covid-19 crisis through a Froebelian lens: Bringing Young Children’s Voices to the Front.
Rosie Campbell. EdD. Pupils' experiences of the GIRFEC approach in Scotland.
Kerrie Highcock. EdD. Autistic children's views of support in England.
Jingyi Yang. PhD. Exploring culturally sustaining pedagogy in Scottish early childhood education.
Jennifer McNicol. EdD. Places of belonging for care experienced learners.
Roseann Maguire. PhD. Disabled children and young people’s understanding of participation in home and school environments.
Prize And Awards
- 2020 Springer Nature China New Development Awards
- Recipient
- 2020
Publications
- (Re)constructing equality, diversity, and inclusion in Chinese childhoods : intersectional perspectives and transdisciplinary approaches
- Zhu Yan, Wang Yuchen, Xu Yuwei, Tan Run
- Global Studies of Childhood Vol 13, pp. 95-101 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231178008
- 'It is the easiest thing to do' : university students' perspectives on the role of lecture recording in promoting inclusive education in the UK
- Wang Yuchen
- Teaching in Higher Education, pp. 1-18 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2022.2162814
- National Framework for Inclusion
- , Alves Ines, Barrett Louise, Barnett Hayley, Cantali Di, Catlin Jane, Darling-McQuistan Kirsten, Dey Donna, Essex Jane, Florian Lani, Foley Yvonne, Graham Archie, Jaap Angela, Jones Sian, Watson Kat Lord, McAuliffe Lisa, McGill Colin, Mercieca Duncan, Munro Alice, Mouroutsou Stella, Priestley Andrea, Sutherland Margaret, Wang Yuchen
- (2022)
- 'Teachers did not let me do it.' : disabled children's experiences of marginalisation in regular primary schools in China
- Wang Yuchen
- Disability & the Global South, pp. 2053-2070 (2021)
- Artificial intelligence and inclusive education : speculative futures and emerging practices
- Wang Yuchen, Knox Jeremy, Gallagher Michael
- UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2020 - Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion (2020)
- Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education : Speculative Futures and Emerging Practices
- Knox Jeremy, Wang Yuchen, Gallagher Michael
- Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8161-4
Research Interests
- Inclusion and diversity in education
- Student voice
- Sustainable development
- Technology
- Research engagement and impact
Professional Activities
- Inclusive education…what are we really talking about? A 10-country reflection
- Speaker
- 8/2023
- The Scottish National Framework for Inclusion – an invitation for shared reflections and experiences across international contexts
- Speaker
- 8/2023
- Surfacing the tensions: AI-driven personalised learning and the (de)valuing of diversity
- Speaker
- 8/2023
- Digital technologies for inclusive education: promising solutions or replicating marginalisation
- Organiser
- 8/2023
- Education (Organisational unit)
- Chair
- 6/2023
- Launch of The Strathclyde Children and Young People Sustainability Network
- Chair
- 30/5/2023
Projects
- Human-centred AI Technologies for Inclusion in Education and Society
- Abel, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator) Jia, Laibing (Principal Investigator)
- Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training 2023 (approx. £260,000)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2027
- Tackling ethical challenges in research with children: contextualising children’s rights in China
- Wang, Yuchen (Co-investigator) Zhu, Yan (Principal Investigator) Xu, Yuwei (Co-investigator) Gao, Jie (Co-investigator) Qu, Xiao (Co-investigator) Wu, Xiaoling (Co-investigator) Deng, Meng (Co-investigator) Xu, Shan (Co-investigator)
- A knowledge exchange seminar series to promote discussions amongst researchers to understand how children’s rights are constructed and understood in the context of China and reflect on ethical challenges in research with children. Funded by UCL Global Engagement Funds (£5,000).
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- International Strategic Partnership Fund
- Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator)
- The project is to build research partnership with the Institute for Accessibility Development in Tsinghua University.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Strathclyde Research Intern
- Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator)
- Supervisor of student project 'The Question of How: A Literature-based Exploration of Good Practice in Engaging Children in Environmental Sustainability Research'
- 06-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2022
- Co-creating transdisciplinary environmental solutions with children and young people
- Wang, Yuchen (Principal Investigator) Davis, John (Co-investigator) Mevawalla, Zinnia (Co-investigator) Martinez-Lejarreta, Loreain (Researcher) Ross, Kirsty (Co-investigator) Somorin, Tosin (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Liggat, John (Co-investigator) Mckendry, Stephanie (Co-investigator) Mitchell, Richard (Co-investigator) Smithx, Cowboy (Co-investigator) Cairns, Liam (Co-investigator) Phillips, Alexandra Lort (Co-investigator) McGroarty, John Paul (Co-investigator) Walters, Hannah (Co-investigator)
- The project, funded by NERC Discipline Hopping grant (approx. £14,000), aims to develop an interest group through snowballing to establish an internal network and shape the vision and framework of a Strathclyde-based Hub on children and young people's leadership role in sustainable environmental solutions. The intended outcomes are: extended transdisciplinary networks to enable Strathclyde-led research, KE and CDTs development; increased capacity in Strathclyde’s community on working with children and young people as agents of change.
- 03-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
- Artificial intelligence and inclusive education
- Wang, Yuchen (Co-investigator)
- Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Education, Beijing Normal University.(£22,899)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2019
Contact
Dr
Yuchen
Wang
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Education
Email: wang.yuchen@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8049