This site is an academic writing space documenting my research interests, theoretical reflections, and methodological thinking in educational psychology.
I am Chenxi Shen, a PhD student in educational psychology. My research focuses on student development within relational and ecological contexts, with particular attention to how family, school, and peer environments jointly shape academic and socio-emotional outcomes. I am especially interested in understanding development as a contextual and heterogeneous process rather than a uniform or additive one.
My work is grounded in Ecological Systems Theory and Attachment Theory, and engages with questions about how supportive and adverse relational experiences co-occur across contexts. Rather than examining single influences in isolation, I adopt person-centred and multilevel approaches to explore how patterns of relationships operate together within students’ everyday lives.
This website serves as a space for research notes, conceptual writing, and reflective pieces that sit alongside more formal academic outputs. Some posts develop theoretical ideas, others reflect on research design and methodology, and others explore broader issues in education and student wellbeing. Not all writing here represents finalized conclusions; instead, this space functions as a working archive of ideas in progress.
The aim of this site is not self-promotion, but clarity—clarity in thinking, in theory, and in how we conceptualise student development within complex social systems.
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