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Dr Yan-Shing Chang

Lecturer in Child and Family Health

Research interests

  • Child & Family
  • Nursing

Biography

Yan-Shing joined the Department of Child and Family Health as a lecturer in 2016. She obtained her Master's and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge and also worked on the Cambridge Review of Primary Education in England. Prior to joining King's in 2013, she worked as a researcher within the higher education sector, and the voluntary sector. She has a background in early childhood and primary education. 

Her current research focuses on maternal, child and family health and wellbeing, taking a life course approach, in the global health context. She is also engaged in developing and applying medical devices and digital technologies to healthcare and healthcare education. She works with international collaborators including those from low and middle-income countries. She has conducted several systematic reviews and primary research on infant feeding, and interventions to support families and women with complex medical and social needs. Her expertise includes co-design participatory research, cross-cultural comparative studies, as well as intervention and service evaluation.

Research Interests 

Maternal and child health and nutrition, infant feeding, breastfeeding, postnatal care for women with complex medical and social needs, development and use of digital technologies and medical devices in healthcare and healthcare education, parenting, home-school relations, parental engagement in children’s learning, family relationships, and relationship support across the lifespan. 

Yan-Shing is an Associate Editor of the Midwifery Journal.

Yan-Shing is a member of the medical device research team led by Professor Patricia Grocott.

Yan-Shing is currently part of the COVID-19 and breastfeeding research review team led by the University of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit.

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Research Profile

    Research

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    Midwifery & Maternal Health

    The Midwifery & Maternal Health Research Group is developing a programme of high-quality research to foster improvements to the delivery, outcomes and experiences of maternity care services.

    Xeroderma Pigmentosum: Codesign and testing of a specialised visor for ultraviolet radiation protection

    Xeroderma Pigmentosum: Codesign and testing of a specialised visor for ultraviolet radiation protection

    Project status: Ongoing

    Spotlight

    Creating medical devices with the people that use them

    How patients teamed up with researchers, clinicians, designers, and manufacturers to co-design their medical equipment.

    Close-up of a therapeutic knitted glove.

    Helping survivors of childhood sexual abuse prepare for children of their own

    The online resource supporting survivors, their families and healthcare professionals.

    pregnant-woman-photo-joey-thompson-unsplash1920x1080

      Research

      C0091669-Newborn_baby_s_grip_reflex-SPL
      Midwifery & Maternal Health

      The Midwifery & Maternal Health Research Group is developing a programme of high-quality research to foster improvements to the delivery, outcomes and experiences of maternity care services.

      Xeroderma Pigmentosum: Codesign and testing of a specialised visor for ultraviolet radiation protection

      Xeroderma Pigmentosum: Codesign and testing of a specialised visor for ultraviolet radiation protection

      Project status: Ongoing

      Spotlight

      Creating medical devices with the people that use them

      How patients teamed up with researchers, clinicians, designers, and manufacturers to co-design their medical equipment.

      Close-up of a therapeutic knitted glove.

      Helping survivors of childhood sexual abuse prepare for children of their own

      The online resource supporting survivors, their families and healthcare professionals.

      pregnant-woman-photo-joey-thompson-unsplash1920x1080