Yang Wang

Contact

y.wang.10@research.gla.ac.uk

+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

Supervisors

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.