Dr Yarong Xie (she/her)
Research Fellow (University of Edinburgh’s Historical Links to African Enslavement and Colonialism), 2022-2024
Home Institution: University of Edinburgh
Yarong is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. She is involved in the project Decolonized Transformations: Confronting the UoE's Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism. The project investigates the University of Edinburgh’s historical links to African enslavement and colonialism and their racial legacies. Yarong is conducting two questionnaires to capture the present racial climate in the University. Information about the questionnaires, and how to take part, can be found at the project’s blogsite: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/decolonise/category/questionnaire-studies/
Yarong specialises in conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Her PhD (2018-2022, University of Edinburgh) investigates how people report their or their family’s experiences of racism in broadcast interviews and online forums. Her doctoral work showed that reporting racism is a collaborative accomplishment. People do not report racism as a soliloquy, but for someone. Sympathetic and affiliative responses are pivotal in recognising and legitimising the racism reported. She organised and delivered a public engagement event for the 2023 ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, in collaboration with a sociologist, a human geographer and a social psychologist from the University of Edinburgh. The event attracted parents, teachers/educators, police officers, and members working for the Council.
Read about Yarong’s research:
Xie, Y. (2023). Reporting racism in broadcast interview. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3005
Xie, Y. (2023). Talking About Experiences of Racism: A Study of Reporting Racism in Broadcast Interviews. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12643
Xie, Y., Kirkwood, S., Laurier, E. and Widdicombe, S. (2021). Racism and misrecognition. British Journal of Social Psychology, 60(4), 1177-1195. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12480
Watch and listen to Yarong’s research:
Xie, Y. (2022). Mothers reporting racism on Mumsnet. Talk delivered on CA Day 2022, Loughborough University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HsyzLf9Gys