Ms Mengyi Wang

PhD Student

u3008817@connect.hku.hk

8.25, 8/F., The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus


Biography

Wang Mengyi is a full-time Ph.D. student at HKU. She received her bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the Huazhong Agricultural University, two master’s degrees in Social Work from the China University of Political Science and Law in 2019, and Social Policy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, respectively.

She mainly uses qualitative methods to understand criminology and related issues. Especially how diversified informal governance institutions work in civil society or under imprisonment conditions.

Education

M.A. in Social Policy

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Master of Social Work

China University of Political Science and Law

Bachelor of Law in Social Work

Huazhong Agricultural University

Research interests

Crime and anti-crime

Prison studies

Institutions and governance

Correction and rehabilitation

Law and society

Honours and recognitions

2018-2019 Graduate School Innovation Fund, CUPL

The Support and Function of Forensic Social Work in the Emotional Management of Female Prisoners

Selected publications

XIONG, G. and WANG, M. (2020). Study on the Intervention of Forensic Social Work in Female Prisoners’ Emotion Management. Research on crime and rehabilitation, (03), 49-57. (In Chinese)