Living CV

Co-authored with Dr Arcangelo Leone de Castris. This project translates China's complex and fragmented AI regulatory landscape into a structured, comparable format to support cross-national AI governance research.

• Led identification and synthesis of Chinese AI policy and regulatory documents.
• Constructed a coherent policy timeline with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage.
• Supported final-stage report drafting through critical review and editing.

Promoted student engagement, peer discussion, and reflective learning during tutorials. Shared reflective feedback with the teaching team to support continuous course improvement.

• Designed tutorial materials and activities based on course learning objectives.
• Marked students' policy briefs and assigned grades with detailed feedback.
• Contributed to an inclusive and supportive learning environment.

Social Work's Role in Young People Experienced Homelessness: A Scoping Review

• Examined social work's visibility and role across youth homelessness literature and practice.
• Argued that collaboration across fragmented service systems is a core — and underrecognised — social work contribution.

Trauma-Informed Evaluation of a Domain-Specific LLM Chatbot for Homelessness Services: A Pilot Study

• Evaluated an AI chatbot through the lens of trauma-informed social work practice.
• Contributed to emerging research on ethical AI deployment in social care contexts.

From Social Work Values to AI Practice: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Trauma-Informed Homelessness Support

• Explored how social work ethical frameworks can guide AI model training.
• Presented at a cross-disciplinary digital research forum.

Facilitated group discussions on contemporary social work challenges, supporting students to engage critically with the realities of professional practice from the start of their degree.

• Designed tutorial materials and activities to encourage active participation.
• Marked student presentations and provided constructive, criteria-aligned feedback.
• Fostered an inclusive learning environment valuing diverse student perspectives.

Independent project using Reinforcement Learning with Targeted Human Feedback (RLTHF) to design AI models that align decision-making with human ethical values in frontline homelessness contexts.

• Created a GitHub page to document the project and share methodology.
• Designed AI models with a focus on trauma-informed practice alignment.
• Developed training support tools for frontline housing staff assisting young people experiencing homelessness.

Designed and implemented a scoping review protocol, registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) to ensure transparency and reproducibility.

• Conducted comprehensive literature reading and independently identified relevant publications.
• Designed a scoping review protocol aligned with established methodological guidelines.
• Applied inclusion and exclusion criteria to retrieve relevant studies for review.

Engaged in scholarly dialogue with authors on population, social policy, and development research, contributing to the quality and rigour of published work.

• Reviewed original research articles and review papers anonymously.
• Provided constructive feedback on content, methodology, and academic structure.

Line manager: Prof John Devaney. Provided a policy analysis baseline and research foundation for examining academic freedom and freedom of expression at the University of Edinburgh.

• Implemented automated web scraping (Python, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy) across 20+ university websites.
• Identified themes using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) modelling, refined through manual review.
• Conducted a scoping review of published academic research on academic freedom.

Research focuses on what shapes and constrains social work's professional position within complex multi-agency systems, with a particular emphasis on collaboration as a core — and underrecognised — social work contribution. Currently conducting fieldwork interviews with social workers, caregivers, and housing workers.

• Completed a scoping review of social work and youth homelessness literature.
• Received ethics approval (ASIC) and commenced fieldwork interviews.
• Modules: Advanced Research Design; Qualitative Data Analysis; Homelessness and Inclusion Health.
• Additional training: Python for Data Science; LLM applications; Introduction to Machine Learning.

Developed advanced competencies in systematic and scoping review design, evidence synthesis, and policy analysis for complex social problems.

• Understanding the Policy Process; Social Problems and Intervention.
• Systematic Review Design; Approaches to Synthesis; Reviews for Complex Policy Issues.
• Research Engagement, Participation and Impact; Evidence for Policy and Practice.

Conducted monthly outreach to service sites, and collaborated with community workers on activity planning and oral history documentation to strengthen collective community identity.

• Delivered monthly in-person supervision to frontline social workers.
• Wrote one chapter of a localised social work training textbook.
• The textbook and ~30 training video tutorials support vocational training for 30,000 social workers in Guangdong province.

Developed foundational expertise in clinical social work, policy analysis, and programme evaluation within the Chinese social welfare context.

• Advanced Clinical Social Work; Social Policy Analysis; Social Work Theory.
• Social Research Methods; Social Service Management; Programme Evaluation.

Provided casework management and direct services reaching approximately half the households in the community, including elderly individuals and children. Services received over 95% satisfaction ratings.

• Conducted case work management with vulnerable community members.
• Designed parent-child activities to promote family communication.
• Connected individuals to public resources; organised children's group and theme activities.

Built interdisciplinary foundations across economics, law, sociology, and public administration.

• Principles of Economics; Introduction to Finance; Introduction to Law.
• Introduction to Sociology; Community Administration; Social Policy Studies.
• Theory and Methods of Social Investigation; Quantitative Analysis for Management.