Zijia is a PhD student supervised by Professor Jenny Gibson. Her doctoral research focuses on how pretend play can afford children’s counterfactual reasoning abilities, and what parents and teachers can do to support children’s social cognitive development.
Before joining PEDAL, Zijia completed her Master’s degree in Child Development at University College London, and obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at East China Normal University in China. She has been working in developmental psychology with great passion and is dedicated to fostering children’s positive growth throughout their lives.
