Yang Wang
Yang Wang
Contact
+44 0141 330 3667
Research Title
Mapping place attachment: Towards a psychological approach to historic urban environment conservation in cities
Research Summary
The research aims to investigate and spatially visualise the nature and intensities of urban residents’ emotional attachments to the historic environments they experience in their daily lives. The research takes Edinburgh as the case study area.
Research Interests:
- People-place bonds
- Associational culture and civic engagement
- Spatial analysis in R
- Research methods
Grants
Sponsor / Funder:
The Urban Study Foundation and the University of Glasgow
Teaching
09/2018 – 01/ 2019 Graduate teaching assistant of Post-graduate taught course: Qualitative Research (SPS5037)
09/2017 – 01/ 2018 Graduate teaching assistant of Post-graduate taught course: Qualitative Research (SPS5037)
Additional Information
Yang had been a visiting researcher in the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University from November 2013 to October 2014 sponsored by China Scholarship Council.