WHEA Annual Report 2025 Final Digital with links v3 - Flipbook - Page 32
Warwick International Higher Education Academy Annual Report 2025
Dr Jianhua Yang
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR – READER
(TEACHING FOCUSED)
WMG
During my first year as a WIHEA
Fellow, I participated in and supported
several Learning Circles, workshops, and training
sessions organised by WIHEA. In particular, I joined
the AI in Education Learning Circle and later became a
co-lead.
WIHEA has had a tremendous impact on me. It has
significantly raised my profile by providing a platform
for networking with like-minded colleagues across the
University. It also enabled me to explore pedagogical
and other intellectually stimulating topics, leading to
meaningful contributions and tangible impacts. I have
also successfully gained promotion to Reader during my
Fellowship.
For incoming Fellows, I would strongly encourage taking
the opportunity to broaden your perspectives early on
in the Fellowship, especially if your core role is primarily
focused on teaching, research, or teaching/learning
support. That said, to truly make the most of the
Fellowship, it’s important to eventually focus your efforts
on specific areas and aim for concrete outputs.
Sophie Cookson
Digital Business Partner, IDG
Professor Christoph Hoerl
Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr Rob Huckstepp
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
Edwina Jones
Associate Professor (Teaching Focused),
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Nicola Knowles
Associate Professor – Reader (Teaching Focused),
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Dr Jenny Lloyd
Associate Professor, Marketing Group,
Warwick Business School
Dr Heather Meyer
Meifang Zhuo
PGR TEACHER MENTOR
Applied Linguistics
Thanks to the WIEHA Student Fellow
Strategic Fund, I have co-led an
interdisciplinary student research
project entitled ‘Understanding University Students’
Perceptions of Using AI to Enhance Study Skills: An
Exploratory Study’. Meanwhile, together with WIHEA
colleague Dr David Orrego-Carmona (SMLC) and Dr
Carla Toro (WMS), we secured an IATL Project Fund
grant to carry out another student-led interdisciplinary
project on AI entitled ‘Technostress in the Age of
Generative AI: Voices from L2 Doctoral Students in
the UK’. Both projects seek to uncover the situation
of AI use among Warwick students, aiming to provide
bottom-up insights into the support needed for students
to leverage the potential of AI for their studies and
growth.
Our projects have received recognition within and
beyond Warwick. We have been invited to share our
findings in a podcast session on ‘AI and Students: What
Universities Don’t Know’, as well as a news article,
‘Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not
less’, published by MIT Technology Review. I have also
been contacted personally by researchers outside the
UK to share use of AI in higher education based on my
project learning.
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We would also like to
mention the following
Fellows who are reaching
the end of their Fellowships
Associate Professor (Teaching Focused),
IATL
Alisha Rodgers
MPhil/PhD Engineering, School of Engineering
Julie Shore
Head of Operations, Academic and
CPD Programme Administration,
Warwick Medical School
