Mengyuan Yue

m.yue.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Research title: The Historical and Ideological Evolution of Cultural Diversity Shaped by UK Charities After World War II

Research Summary

Overall research interests

My research focuses on the historical evolution of how cultural diversity has been understood and engaged with in postwar Britain, particularly through the lens of social psychology.

 

PhD research

My PhD project examines how student-focused charities shaped interactions between international (formerly ‘overseas’) students and local communities from the postwar period onward. It traces the ideological and practical development of these charities’ work with international students, revealing how their perceptions of different cultural groups shifted over time.

Publications

Blog articles: 

Mengyuan Yue, ‘Welcome to the Real World: Expectations and Self-Doubt in Your PhD’, Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Blog, 29 July 2024, read here.

Supervisors

Grants

  • Research Support Award
    College of Arts, University of Glasgow
    September, 2024

  • Research Support Award
    College of Arts, University of Glasgow
    November-December, 2024

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant:

History 2B

  • Global History, School of Humanities, 2024/25.

 

Management 2B

  • Management in the Voluntary and Community Sector, Adam Smith Business School, 2024/25.
  • Integrating Business and Management in Practice, Adam Smith Business School, 2024/25.

Additional Information

Conferences

Mengyuan, Yue. 10 September 2024 ‘A Conceptualised History of Cultural Diversity in UK Charities Since the 1980s,’ Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2024. Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London.