Ying Miao

Dr Ying Miao is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Aston University. Her research mainly explores how inequalities and identities affect social attitudes and behavioural change. Her China focused work have appeared in The China Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary China, and Contemporary Politics, while her interdisciplinary research on social acceptance of new technologies has been published in Technology in Society and Environmental Science and Policy.

She has been involved in several multidisciplinary UKRI and Horizon-Europe funded projects, most recently on a multidisciplinary EPSRC/NERC-funded project aiming to develop sustainable district heating systems, while addressing socioeconomic barriers and constraints in the uptake of community-based heating networks.