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Profile
Position
Lecturer in Psychology and Education
Office Hour
Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00
Qualifications
PhD (University of Cambridge) Supervisor: Dr Sara Baker
Mphil (University of Cambridge)
BA (Beijing Normal University)
Erasmus exchange scholar (Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, München) Supervisor: Prof Kurt Heller
Profile
Yishu’s research interests are based on education and psychology. She studied for her BA in Education at Beijing Normal University while exchanged to the Master’s programme of Learning Sciences (http://www.en.mcls.lmu.de/study_programs/master/index.html) at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich in 2011-2012. Yishu then gained her Mphil and PhD at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, Psychology, Education and Learning Sciences group, supervised by Dr Sara Baker http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/baker/).
Research
Yishu’s research aims to improve adolescents and young adults’ lives by exploring factors that can support their learning and development. Her PhD work aimed to increase women’s representation in STEM fields by identifying people’s implicit biases towards scientists, biases that may hinder women from pursuing STEM careers. Yishu developed and tested instruments that can detect automatic cognitive patterns that are not under the subject’s conscious control. She also conducted large-scale surveys and analysed quantitative datasets to obtain a better understanding of implicit stereotypes and their potential influence on human behaviours.
She uses implicit association test, survey and interview and works with teachers in school to translate research from psychology into educational contexts. How can unconsicous and conscious biases affect students' learning? What role does empathy play in students school life? What strategies do students use to meet life challenges and stay positive, and how can teachers and parents support this? Later in development, what are the key factors during adolescence that has a lasting effect on adults’ well-being. Yishu’s projects addressing questions like these are funded by Yangzhou University Top Tier Scholar Grant.
Teaching
Undergraduate Course: Children’s Learning and Development (Language: Chinese )
Masters Course: Academic English for Psychology (Language: English)
Prospective Students
Yishu welcomes queries from prospective Master students before they officially apply to our programmes. Prospective students are encouraged to consider the research themes outlined above before making contact. Students with statistical and programming skills training background are very welcome.
Conference Talks
Jiangsu Province Psychological Society Annual Conference
Presented my project Testing Empathising-Systemising Theories among Chinese Adolescents Nanjing, Oct, 2020
British Psychological Society Annual Conference
Presented my PhD project Stereotypes of empathy in scientists vary by gender and subject major among UK university students Oxford, Sept, 2018
Cambridge University Psychology & Education End-of-Year Symposium
Presented my project methodology Investigating underlying beliefs: Developing the Science-Empathy implicit association test Cambridge, June, 2017
Chinese Education Research Association Conference
Presented my masters project the Associations between Theory of Mind, Systemising, Gender and Subject Choice among young adults London, June, 2015
Publications
Qin, Y. (2019). Developing an Implicit Association Test to Explore Implicit and Explici Stereotypes of Empathy in Scientists among University Students in England (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.39610