Education Background:
2020-2024 PhD in Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2017-2018 Msc in Building Information Modelling for Integrated Construction, University of Wolverhampton, UK
2016-2019 MA in Archaeology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
2012-2016 BA in Museology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Previous Employment:
2024-present Assistant Professor, Institute of Creativity and Innovation, Xiamen University, China
2018-2019 Research Assistant, Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests:
Digital Management of Heritage, Living Inheritance of Collective Memory, Digital Landscape Archaeology, Digital Narratives
Research results (Selected):
2021-2023 Principal Investigator. “Values and Management of the Landscape of Buddhist Grottoes on the Silk Roads in Gansu” (Funded by Open project of Gansu Provincial Research Center for Conservation of Dunhuang Cultural Heritage, GDW2021YB16).
2024-2025 Principal Investigator. “Warmth of Everyday Life: the Spatial Alterations and Collective Memory of Xinhua Community in Shanghai” (Funded by Chinese National Museum of Ethnology).
Refereed Publications (Selected):
Monograph
Wei, W., Chen, Y. and Yang, B. Study on the values of heritage: Case of Grottoes in Helong Reigion of China. Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Press, 2024.
Refereed Journal Publications (Selected):
1. Chen, Y.; Wu, H. and Wei, W*. 2024. Different Patterns of Religious Settlements Based on the Historic Landscape Approach: Cases of Buddhist Grottoes in Hexi Corridor. Religions, 15, 1531 (AHCI, Q1).
2. Chen, Y. and Lu, S*. 2023. Different Patterns of the Revitalisation of Collective Memory in Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Cases of Columbia Circle and the Blue House Cluster. Space and Culture, 1-26 (SSCI&AHCI, Q2).
3. Chen, Y. * and Wei, W.* 2022. Alterations of Historic Rural Landscape Based on the Multifunctional Approach: The Case of Coastal Fishing Villages in the Yangtze River Basin. Sustainability, 14,7451 (SSCI&SCIE, Q2).
4. Lu, S. and Chen, Y.* 2021. Aesthetic Preference of Typical Cruise Atrium Theme based on Eye Tracking Technology. Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute (Fine Arts & Design), 2: 173-179 (CSSCI).
5. Chen, Y. and Wei, W. 2021. Digital Reconstruction of the 44th Cave at Maiji Mountain Grottoes with BIM. Huaxia Archaeology, 2: 131-141 (CSSCI).
6. Chen, Y. and Lu, S.* 2020. Applications and Practices of Space Narratives in China. Cultural Studies, 4: 207-227 (CSSCI, indexed by China Social Science Excellence in 2022).
7. Wei, W. and Chen, Y. 2019. Bo Yuan and Bo Fazuo Brothers and Buddhism form Northern China in 3rd- 4th Century. Journal of Northwest Minzu University (Philosophy and Social Science), 4: 50-61 (CSSCI, indexed by China Social Science Excellence in 2020).
