Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope)
Hsiao-Chiang (Hope) is the holder of the UNESCO RIELA PhD Scholarship. Her doctoral research aims to use UNESCO designations as sites of restorative Integration and embodied decoloniality.
Before joining the team, she was an experienced officer in the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, responsible for indigenous community empowerment plans, museum database and website, and digital museum transformation pilot schemes.
She completed an MSc in Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow, conducting the decolonising museum websites project with the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. She also has a MA in Chinese Literature from National Central University, Taiwan, researching Classical poems in Taiwan. She loves to write classical and contemporary poetry to reflect her thoughts.
Her ongoing PhD project, “Co-creating the Values of World Heritage Sites with Refugees: A World View Perspective,” seeks to broaden the scope of refugee integration and build a multicultural and more inclusive heritage education. She adopts action research as an approach to make real changes in heritage education and bring a positive impact on society. Hope welcomes individuals, museums and the heritage sectors to contact her and discuss this project.
Hope is part of the UNESCO RIELA team. In addition, she is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Chinese Association of Museums (CAM), and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS); she also participates in the International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Network (IMISCOE) and Glasgow Refugee Asylum & Migration Network (GRAMNet).
Her long-term goal is to ensure refugees’ right to participate in cultural life and make world heritage sites really become “our” places.
You can visit Hope's website or contact her at Hsiao-Chiang.Wang@glasgow.ac.uk
