Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh

Personal statement

Dr. Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh is a senior lecturer in Education Studies (Research Methods) at Bath Spa University. Since 2016, she has taught subjects relating to education studies, educational psychology and research methods in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Bath Spa.

Chloe has a scientific academic background which has laid the foundations of unique perspectives in her current research position in the field of education. She completed a BSc degree in Physics in 2000 and a MSc degree in Science Education at National Kaohsiung Normal University in 2002 in Taiwan, the Republic of China. Her successful experiences of research into analysing students' scientific thinking processes including problem solving and conceptual change, have led her into the path of being an academic who enjoys intellectual thinking and development today.

She is also passionate about teaching as a teacher and a lecturer. Before teaching in higher education in the UK, she was a qualified science and physics teacher in secondary/senior high schools in Taiwan for three years. She then pursued a PhD degree at the Graduate School of Education in the University of Bristol. Her doctoral research was an interdisciplinary research project situated in the field of educational psychology, using a mixed method experimental approach to explore the cognitive and emotional effects of computer game play on creativity. She loved her teaching as a lecturer in Psychology of Education at Liverpool Hope University for four years before joining Bath Spa as a senior lecturer.

Chloe's research experiences are interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, including students' scientific thinking and conceptual processes, emotion and cognition (creativity and attentional breadth), academic acculturation, academic motivation, neuromyth, wellbeing and resilience. She has applied various research approaches, from interviews, experiments, interventions, survey and focus group. Lately, her research focuses on wellbeing cultivation and resilience building.

Academic qualifications

• BSc in Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan (2000
• MSc in Science Education, Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan (2002)
• PhD in Psychology in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK (2012).
• FHEA

Professional qualifications

• Teaching certificate for Science and Physics Secondary and Senior High School Teachers, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan (2002)
• Postgraduate teaching certificate, Liverpool Hope University, UK (2013).

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academ
• Member of British Education Research Association
• Member of European Network for Positive Psychology
• Member of International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)
• Member of Centre of Resilience and Social Justice (CRSJ) and BoingBoing Resilience Research and Practice.

Areas of expertise

• Research methods
• Psychology of Education
• Creativity, Emotion and Cognition
• Positive Psychology (Wellbeing and Resilience).