Wendy is a Graduate School funded PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. Wendy gained her undergraduate degree in Social Sciences with a major in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) before completing her MSc in Child Development and Education studies at the University of Oxford in 2010.

Wendy was trained as a frontline Educational Psychologist in the University of Hong Kong. She worked with schools, parents and students with special educational needs. She also taught in universities to train new teachers. Wendy has keen interest in facilitating early identification and intervention for young children, especially those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Her current PhD research is focused on exploring the relationship between parenting attitudes/ behaviours and children’s delay aversion, supervised jointly by Prof. Edmund Sonuga-Barke of KCL and Dr. Kathy Shum of HKU.

PhD project title: Parent-child interaction and the development of delay aversion during preschool: Transactional processes over time.