Yue Zhou joined the School of Education in 2025. She has a background in applied linguistics and languages education, and previously held teaching and research roles at the Universities of Nottingham, Sheffield, and Cambridge.
Her research examines multilingualism as a social justice issue, with a particular focus on supporting identity development and well-being among racially and linguistically minoritised learners. She is interested in how learners make sense of growing up multilingual and how educational practices can better support their flourishing.
Yue completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge Trust Scholar. Her doctoral research bridged the fields of heritage language education and children’s well-being, introducing a new model for understanding multilingual children’s well-being and developing a validated measurement tool. Her current research builds on this foundation through two interrelated strands: heritage language education and learner well-being, and the intersections of multilingualism, identity, and social justice in education. Across these areas, she adopts participatory approaches, collaborating with multilingual children, families, complementary schools, and communities to co-produce knowledge and inform educational practices.