Wei Yu

Wei Yu is a PhD candidate in Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester. Prior to the PhD programme, he obtained master's degrees from both Loughborough University and Manchester GDI, in the area of entrepreneurial management and organisational studies. 

His research interests cover human resourse management and entrepreneurship. His PhD thesis focuses on exploring talent management framework in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the perspectives from China's context.  

Wei have been awarded the Associate Fellowship of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy). He is an experienced Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) in the cluster of Management, Governance and Development in GDI.

GTA modules to date:

MGDI70191 Human Resource Management: Concepts and Contexts; MGDI70692 Human Resource Planning and Development; MGDI70661 Human Resource Practice 1; MGDI70432 Human Resource Practice 2; MGDI71441 Learning, Training and Development; MGDI70472 Managing Quality in Development; MGDI70081 Organisational Psychology, Management and Change; MGDI71981 Development Practice: International Contexts and Worlds of Action; MGDI77770 Research Methods and Skills in Organisational Contexts; MGDI70461 Organisational Development; MGDI70072 Organisational Behaviour.

Member of Academy of Management (AOM), American Psychological Association (APA), British Academy of Management (BAM), International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), Academic Council on the United System (ACUNS).