Dr Yang Ye MEd, MSc, PhD

Yang received his BSc from Beijing Normal University, China and his MSc/PhD in Social Psychology from Western University, Canada. Before joining the University of Greenwich, he was a post-doctoral researcher first at the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology in Ghent University, Belgium and then at the Linguistic Department in Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is currently teaching Research Methods in Psychology 1 and Social Psychology at the University of Greenwich. He also teaches Introduction to Quantitative Research for the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP).

Yang's research in social psychology focuses on the automatic and implicit forms of attitudes, stereotypes and bias. The research topics include how the automatic feelings about others develop and change, the measurement and behavioural effects of implicit gender stereotyping and understanding and reducing biases in the real world. He is currently working with Prof. Erez Levon and Prof. Devyani Sharma from Queen Mary University of London on an ESRC funded project on understanding accent bias in the UK legal industry. He also collaborates with the social cognition lab at the University of Texas Austin  and the Learning and Implicit Process Lab at Ghent University.

Posts held previously:

• 2017-19, Post-doctoral Researcher, Queen Mary University of London
• 2014-17, Post-doctoral Research Fellow/Research Affiliate, Ghent University, Belgium