Weiyuan Wu
Lecturer in Social Justice and Education in School ContextsProfile
I am a Lecturer in Education. My research focuses on schooling and social justice, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality, and other marginalised identities. Drawing on sociological and cultural approaches, I examine how schools reproduce and reinforce inequalities, as well as how they can challenge and transform them.
Through the case of Chinese schooling, my recent work brings Confucianism into dialogue with Queer Theory to explore LGBTQ+ identities, subjectivities, agency, resistance, and leadership in educational contexts. More broadly, my research contributes to international debates on gender, sexuality, and social justice in education through conceptually informed and qualitative studies of school contexts.
I am a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA).
Career Details
Following six years of teaching at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) in Shanghai, China, I moved to the UK to pursue a Master's in Educational Leadership, and then a PhD in Education funded by the President's Doctoral Scholar Award.
Qualifications
PhD, Education, University of Manchester (Awarded Dean's Prize)
MA, Educational Leadership, University of Manchester (Awarded Platt Prize)
MA, Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University
BA, Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University
BSc(minor), Applied Psychology, East China Normal University
Current Teaching
EDS852: Promoting Social Justice through Education
EDS854: Researching Social Justice
