Biography
Ye Cao is a PhD candidate in Education Research and a Graduate Teaching Fellow at ECS, teaching undergraduate modules for the BA Social Sciences. She also worked as a Research Assistant for the research project 'Sustaining UK teacher quality and retention post-pandemic'.
Her research interests are in engagement issues in science education and international comparative education. Her PhD thesis focuses on applying the lens of science capital to understand student engagement in China.
Before joining King's College London, she obtained a Master of Engineering degree from Boston University in Material Science and Engineering. Ye also worked in the Chinese education industry for two years.
Research
Her research interests cover student engagement, science aspirations, social theories in education and international comparative education.
Her PhD thesis focuses on Chinese students' science engagement and the application of western social theories in the Chinese context. The preliminary findings will be presented at the BERA Conference 2022 on 6/9/22.
View Ye's research profile.
Thesis title: Applying the lens of science capital to understand student engagement in China
Principal supervisor: Dr Heather King
Secondary supervisor: Dr Alex Manning