Yiping Wang

Yiping Wang is a second year Ph.D. student in Social Science and Comparative Education Program of UCLA School of Education & Information Studies. Prior to UCLA, Yiping has studied in Beijing Normal University and The Education University of Hong Kong. Experiences of living in both the East and the West provide Yiping with a unique global perspective, which sheds light on her research and teaching.

Yiping’s research is interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing education, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Her research aims to uncover how young people form their values, beliefs, and identities, and how various contexts such as family, community, schooling, workplace experiences, and media influence their values. It also investigates how these values serve as guidelines for their behaviors and life choices. Yiping has conducted studies in various geographical contexts around the world, including China, Hong Kong, the Middle East and North Africa. Her recent project examines the experiences of South Asian students in elite universities in the United States within the context of globalization.

Yiping now works as a teaching associate at UCLA. She has led discussion/lab sessions in several social science courses, both theoretical and methodological, including Introduction to Development Studies (IDS1), Globalization, Culture and Society (GS 104), Research Methodology in Psychology (Psych 100B), and Introductory Sociology (SOCIOL 1). As an educator, Yiping firmly believes that education can bring empowerment.

Yiping consider herself as an educator, lifelong learner, a global citizen and a goose lover.