Hannah is currently reading for a DPhil in Education at the University of Oxford as a Swire Scholar, fully funded by the Swire Charitable Trust and St Antony’s College. Her research interests primarily lie in understanding how various factors in home and school environments influence children’s socioemotional learning outcomes, resilience, coping and mental well-being. Hannah is also interested in how we can apply research to aid and innovate educational practices, curriculum and policies. Prior to starting her DPhil, Hannah completed a MSc in Psychology of Education at University College London (UCL). She is also a registered speech therapist in Hong Kong and worked in mainstream schools as a school-based speech therapist, after completing her BSc in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Hong Kong.
DPhil topic
Hannah's doctoral research focuses on parents’ emotion socialisation (PES), especially how parents’ beliefs about emotion, their own emotion regulation (ER) and various emotion-related socialisation behaviours play a role in school-aged children’s ER development in Hong Kong, a culturally Chinese sample. The DPhil project intends to provide culturally salient data to inform the socioemotional learning (SEL) environments at both home and school. It is hoped that the research findings can be translated into evidence-based parent education through home-school partnerships or the implementation of school-based parenting programmes.
