Postgraduate research students

Hsiao-Chiang (Hope) is the holder of the UNESCO RIELA PhD Scholarship. Her doctoral research aims to use UNESCO designations as sites of restorative Integration and embodied decoloniality. 

She specialises in developing participatory heritage interpretation that challenges Western-centric heritage discourses. Her project, We are Living Heritage, and We Share World Heritage, co-creates the values of WHSs and bridges the gap between academic theory and practice. She is experienced in applying creative methods, such as storytelling, photovoice, readers' theatre, and poetic inquiry in social science research and qualitative analysis. She also works as a practitioner in the heritage and museum sector, designing educational interventions that foster epistemic equity and intercultural dialogue.

Before joining the UNESCO RIELA team, she was an experienced officer in the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, responsible for indigenous community empowerment plans, museum database and website, and digital museum transformation pilot schemes.

She completed an MSc in Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow, conducting the decolonising museum websites project with the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. She also has a MA in Chinese Literature from National Central University, Taiwan, researching Classical poems in Taiwan. She loves to write classical and contemporary poetry to reflect her thoughts.

Hope is part of the UNESCO RIELA team. In addition, she is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Chinese Association of Museums (CAM), and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS); she also participates in the International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Network (IMISCOE), British Educational Research Association and Glasgow Refugee Asylum & Migration Network (GRAMNet).

• Professor Alison Phipps
• Dr Sadie Ryan
• Dr Tawona Sithole

External supervisors

Matt Rabagliati, the Head of Policy, Research and Communications at UNESCO in the UK | Building lasting peace through education, the sciences, culture, communication & information.

• Chancellor's Fund Award, University of Glasgow, UK, 2023
• UNESCO Trail in Scotland Studentship, UNESCO’s UNITWIN and Chairs programme, 2022-25
• Arts & Humanities Mobility Scholarship, University of Glasgow, UK, 2022
• International Leadership Scholarship, University of Glasgow, UK, 2021
• Excellent Student Scholarship, Veterans and Dependents Foundation, Taiwan, 2021
• Talented Student Scholarship, Hsing Tian Kong Education Foundation, Taiwan, 2012-14
• College Student Research Scholarship, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2009-12

ICOM-ICOFOM           Wang, H. (2025). Migration Museology: Museums as Methods for Integration. ICOFOM Symposium at the ICOM General Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Accepted)

ECER                          Wang, H. (2025). We Share World Heritage: A Co-Creation Framework for Refugees Toward Inclusive Heritage Education. European Educational Research Association Conference, Belgrade, Serbia (Accepted)

ICOM-CECA               Wang, H. (2024). Reimagining Utopia: Co-creating the Values of New Lanark with Refugee Youths. ICOM International Committee for Education and Cultural Action (CECA) Annual Conference, Greece

PASCAL                      Wang, H. & McColl, M. (2024). Fostering Multiculturalism and Cultivating Museum Educators: The Design and Practice of EDUMaH. 17th PASCAL International Conference, Taiwan

ICOM-CECA               Wang, H. (2023). Shaping Inclusive Heritage Education: Co-creating the Values of Heart of Neolithic Orkney through Digital Heritage Elicitation. ICOM CECA Annual Conference, Singapore

World Heritage UK      Wang, H. (2023). We are Living Heritage, and We Share World Heritage. World Heritage UK 2023 Annual Conference, Stirling

ICOM-COMCOL         Wang, H. (2023). Living City, Living Heritage: Co-creating the Values of Old and New Towns of Edinburgh with New Scots. ICOM COMCOL 13th Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

ECER                          Wang, H. & Lin, Y. (2023). Multicultural Heritage Education: Exploring a World-View-Oriented Heritage Education Model of Antonine Wall for New Scots. European Educational Research Association Conference, Glasgow, UK

ICOM-ICOFOM           Wang, H. (2022). Overcoming the Taboos of Collaboration: Primary Research Project of Indigenous Museum Value. ICOFOM Symposium at the ICOM General Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

PhD Tutor (School of Education) in Museum Education & Educaiton in Musuem and Heritage (Erasmus Mundus) since 2023. 

Presentations and Invited Lectures

Presentation, Heritage Education as Pathway to Peace, UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, UK, May 2025

Workshop, Rocks and Roles: Participatory Archaeology for Cultural Integration, Scottish Crannog Centre Rise and Shine Festival, UK, August, 2024

Workshop, Fortune Spring and the Book of Hope, UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, UK, May 2024

Workshop, Co-creating the Values of Durham Castle and Cathedral, Durham Castle and Cathedral World Heritage Site, UK, February, 2024

Keynote Address, “Reflection, Action and Connection: Reflection, Action, and Connection: My Culture Trail,” National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, October 2023 (Invited).

Keynote Address, “Reflection, Action and Connection: My Approaches to Cultural Administration, Museums and World Heritage,” National Museum of Taiwan History, Taiwan, September 2022 (Invited).

Keynote Address, “Decolonising Museum Websites,” ICOM UK Student and Emerging Professional Working Group, UK, July 2022 (Invited).

Keynote Address, “The Idea and Practice of Culture Policy,” Department of Chinese Literature, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, March 2020.

Dissertation

Wang, H, “Decolonising Museum Websites: A Case Study of The Hunterian,” University of Glasgow, August 2022, UK.

Wang, H., “The Late Style of Zhang Meng-Ji’s Poems,” Central University, January 2017, Taiwan.

Journal Article

Wang, H. (2023). Co-creating the Values of Indigenous Museums in Taiwan. ICOFOM Study Series, 51(1-2), pp. 109-123. https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.5094

Book Sections

Wang, H. (2026). Soaring and sewing between mountains and rivers. In: Diamond, P., Sitholé, T. and Phipps, A. (eds.) Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices: Fire Stories. Multilingual Matters. pp. 131-141, 978-1-83668-077-2

Wang, H. (2025). Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in The Antonine Wall. In: Aldegheri, E., Fisher, D. and Phipps, A. (eds.) A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: international learnings from Scotland. Multilingual Matters. pp. 237-241, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.29308405.33

McColl, M & Wang, H. (2025). Shaping a Reinvigorated Cultural Landscape: exploring museum education practices and perspectives in the Middle East. In The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education, Oxfordshire: Routledge, https://doi-org.ezproxy2.lib.gla.ac.uk/10.4324/9781003462088

Wang, H. (2024). Living City, Living Heritage: Co-Creating the Values of the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh with Refugees. In Living Collections, Living Communities: Contemporary Practices of Care in Collecting COMCOL 2023 Conference Proceedings, ICOM COMCOL, pp. 179-190

Wang, H. (2022). The Approach and Strategy of Museums' Digital Transformation in Taiwan. In Digital Transformation and Smart Innovation in Museums, Taipei: Artist Magazine, pp. 74-89

College Student Research (Awarded by NSC)

Wang, H., “The Body Concepts of Han Yu in his poetry,” College Student Research Achievement, National Science Council (NSC), March 2012. Taipei, Taiwan.

Wang, H., “Yuan Zhen’s style and mood changes in the poetry created during his demotion,” College Student Research Achievement, NSC, March 2011. Taipei, Taiwan.