Educational equity & institutional power
How policy, school cultures and unequal access shape dignity, opportunity and belonging.
Researching how institutions become lived experience.
I study how power, learning environments and everyday social contexts shape young people's mental health, dignity and sense of agency.
01 / Research focus
Questions before disciplines.
I begin with the human problem, then choose the methods and fields that can illuminate it.
Youth mental health
How humiliation, rumination, reward and everyday context become lived psychological experience.
Civic learning & agency
How historically grounded education can help young people think critically without losing complexity or care.
Identity in digital systems
How platforms, public discourse and AI reproduce assumptions about gender, identity and social worth.
02 / Selected work
From questions to evidence.
Current and recent work across mental health research, intensive longitudinal methods and learning design.
UCL · Undergraduate dissertation
01Humiliation, Rumination & Anhedonia
A retrospective survey study asking whether rumination helps explain the relationship between recalled humiliation and anhedonic symptoms.
- Survey design
- Regression
- Mediation & moderation
HKU Psychiatry · Secondary analysis
02Momentary Rumination & Suicidal Ideation
A secondary analysis of a double-blind randomized trial (N=68), tracking rumination and suicidal ideation from baseline through post-intervention and one-month follow-up.
- EMA / EMI
- Robust LMM
- Parametric bootstrap
HKU Psychiatry · Daily-life research
03Everyday Reward & Social Context
Ecological momentary assessment research on reward, affect and social context across bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and healthy-control groups.
- EMA coding
- Mixed-effects models
- Clinical groups
Education policy · Published study
04China’s Lower Secondary Education Policies
A Bourdieusian analysis of the Double Reduction and Vocational General Streaming policies, focusing on mental health, policy effectiveness and social inequality.
- Policy analysis
- Evidence synthesis
- Bourdieu
Sociology · Published study
05Modernity & Juvenile Delinquency
An interdisciplinary study of how psychological, social and cultural changes associated with modernity may contribute to juvenile delinquency.
- Literature review
- Social theory
- Adolescent behaviour
Harvard HPL · Learning design
06History, Power & Civic Education
A compact undergraduate module using modern Chinese history to build inquiry, evidence evaluation and civic agency through careful learning design.
- Backward design
- Seminar
- Project-based learning
03 / Experience & output
Research in practice.
Selected research, teaching, clinical and service experience—together with publications and the methods I use.
Experience
- Aug 2025—Present
The University of Hong Kong · Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Research Intern · Department of Psychiatry
Developing EMA coding schemes, conducting mixed-effects analyses in R and contributing to statistical reporting and manuscript preparation on context-dependent reward processes.
- Jun—Aug 2025
The University of Hong Kong · Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Visiting Researcher (fully funded) · Department of Psychiatry
Cleaned multi-timepoint EMA data, compared standard and robust mixed models, used bootstrapping and presented results to interdisciplinary audiences.
- Jan 2025—2026
Research Assistant
Supported a study of public awareness, knowledge and attitudes toward dyslexia in China through translation, survey monitoring, data cleaning, analysis and research writing.
- Sep 2024—2026
Teaching Assistant
Answered questions during lectures, facilitated discussion and supported student engagement in psychology and education learning environments.
- Jul—Aug 2024
The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Psychological Well-being Practitioner
Assisted with clinical psychological assessments and observed psychotherapy work across anxiety, depression, PTSD and social anxiety presentations.
- 2025—2026
Undergraduate Student Representative
Elected by peers to represent undergraduate voices in departmental dialogue on curriculum, learning environments and well-being support.
- Jul—Aug 2023
Hangzhou New Channel School
English Teaching Assistant
Monitored learning progress, provided tailored after-school support and helped students refine study plans around their academic goals.
04 / Trajectory & direction
Building a bridge from evidence to humane institutions.
My next step is to connect educational psychology, psychiatry and sociology—not as parallel interests, but as a shared way to understand how structures enter everyday life.
Education & research
- 2026—27
- 2023—26
- 2025—26The University of Hong Kong
Summer Research Programme & continuing collaboration · Psychiatry
Questions I'm carrying forward
- 01
Study how institutional climates become psychological experience.
- 02
Connect intensive longitudinal methods with educational settings.
- 03
Design culturally responsive interventions that protect dignity and agency.
Research principle
“Keep the person visible—even when the unit of analysis is a system.”
Contact
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