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Staff Profile

Dr Yang Wang

Research Associate

  • Email: yang.wang@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University,
    Room 5.01, Armstrong Building,
    Queen Victoria Road,
    Newcastle upon Tyne,
    Newcastle, NE1 7RU
Background

I joined Newcastle University in May 2024 to work on an ESRC-funded Cessation of Volunteering project which explores the impact of being obliged to cease volunteering due to ill-health or other age-related reasons.


Before coming to Newcastle, I completed my doctoral research at the University of Glasgow in 2021 funded by Urban Studies Foundation, stayed and worked in the same institution on several research projects and roles subsequently. I have a deep interest in understanding people-place relationship, in particular, place attachment, which, developed from my PhD years, features in my current work and is drawing the various strands of my work together.


I am a mixed methods researcher. I have a good amount of experience in conducting qualitative interviews and cross-sectional surveys (including Public Participation GIS survey and choice experiment). I am a comfortable R user for computational statistical (including some spatial) analysis. I also have experience in conducting narrative reviews. I sit on the editorial board for Methodological Innovations (Sage Journal) from October 2023 to September 2026.