Yi Wang

Early Career Researcher
University of Sydney
Yi Wang is a highly self-motivated early career researcher with demonstrated research expertise and strong soft skills. Her PhD research explores knowledge exchange and stakeholder engagement in digital creative industries between China and Australia. She uses different country contexts to examine the diversity of innovation practice internationally in creative industries to better understand the approaches and challenges for future strategy. She has maintained publication track record of refereed Q1 journal articles and co-authored book chapters in prestigious collections while doing her PhD and working in research activities, as well as teaching as a sessional academic at QUT School of Communication. Yi has conducted diverse research areas in creative industries, innovation economies, cultural geography, digital media, strategic communication, art design and art theory. In particular, her work experiences have involved with clients across academic research, industry partnership, government connections and NGO stakeholders internationally.

From this author

Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.

SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.  

SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.