Yuemiao Ma (PhD student)

Thesis title: Citizenship Education Embedded in Model United Nations: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Chinese Secondary School

Biography

Background

I am a PhD candidate in Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh. Before starting PhD, I finished MSc Education (Comparative Education and International Development pathway) at Moray House from 2018-2019. I have maintained an interest in global/international education and, in particular, the Model United Nations (MUN) programme. For my master's dissertation, I looked at MUN in Scotland in relation to Curriculum for Excellence (the Scottish education policy), through a placement at United Nations House Scotland (UNHS), an Edinburg-based civil society. Since then, I have been working at UNHS as an intern to help expand MUN activities for more primary and secondary schools around Scotland. 

My PhD research is about (Global) Citizenship Education in Model UN in China. The research originates from my own experience as a MUN participant since my secondary school. 

I have experience in peer reviewing paper submissions to AERA (American Education Research Association) 2024 conference and BERA (British Education Research Association) 2024 conference. 

I am a student member of: 

  • British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE)
  • British Education Research Association (BERA)
  • Academic Network of Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) 

Qualifications

  • Associate Fellowship of Advance HE, 2024
  • MSc in Education (Comparative Education and International Development), University of Edinburgh, 2018-2019
  • BA in Translation and Interpretation, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, 2014-2018
  • BEcon in Finance (dual degree), University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, 2014-2018

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Postgraduate Tutor, IECS
  • Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Edinburgh Futures Institute
  • Research Assistant, CAHSS College Research Office
  • Facilitator of ANGEL (Academic Network of Global Education and Learning) Early Career Researchers’ Network

Postgraduate teaching

  • The Anthropology of Education and Learning
  • PGT dissertation

Research summary

  • (global) citizenship education
  • Model United Nations
  • China studies
  • anthropology of/in education
  • qualitative research methods

Conference details

  • Global Citizenship Education Embedded in Model United Nations (MUN) activities – A Case Study of a Chinese Secondary School, BAICE Early Career Researchers Conference, online, Aug 2023
  • Citizenship Education in Model United Nations (poster), Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2023, Online, February 2023
  • Implementing Model United Nations into local contexts: different conceptualisation of Global Citizenship Education, British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE) conference, Edinburgh UK, September 2022
  • Global Citizenship Education in Model United Nations: Does it work in China? The 10th European Conference on Education (ECE), London UK, July 2022

 

Organiser

  • New Voices in Global Education & Learning Conference 2024, online
  • Doctoral Student Symposium 2024 - Beyond the Buzzwords: Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing, University of Stirling
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