Dr. Wei Huang

• 09/2006 - 07/2010 B.A. in German Studies with the foci of intercultural communication and German-Chinese Translation in Sichuan International Studies University (China)
• 10/2013 - 09/2014 Bachelor study in Education Science  (major) and Management (minor) at the University of Erfurt (Germany)
• 10/2014 - 03/2017 M.A. in Early Childhood at University of Konstanz (Germany) and Thurgau University of Teacher Education (Switzerland)
• 01/2018 - 01/2023 Research Assistant in Project SEED at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (Germany)
• 06/2019 - 07/2019 Research stay in Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• 07/2021 - 06/2022 Scholarship holder at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)
• 07/2023 Ph.D. in Empirical Educational Research
• since 07/2022 Research Assistant at the Chair of Developmental Psychology (Prof. Dr. S. Weinert) at the University of Bamberg

Publications

Huang, W., Weinert, S., & Volodina, A. (2024). Relations between early majority language and socioemotional development in children with different language backgrounds. Child Development, 95(3), 895–912. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14040

Huang, W., Weinert, S., von Maurice, J. & Attig, M. (2022). Specific parenting behaviors link maternal education to toddlers' language and social competence. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication. dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000950

Huang, W., Weinert, S., Wareham, H., Law, J., Attig, M., von Maurice, J. & Roßbach, H-G. (2022). The emergence of behavioral difficulties: Analyzing risk and protective pathways in the UK and Germany. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769057

Wareham, H., Huang, W., Labuschagne, L., Law, J., Attig, M., Franken, M.-C., Jansen, P., & Weinert, S. (2021). The association of maternal education on children’s language skills and its link to social inequality, descriptive analysis from three European cohort studies. DIAL Working Paper Series 10/2021.

Presentations

Huang, W., Weinert, S., & Volodina, A. (2024). Relations between early majority language and socioemotional development in children with different language backgrounds. Poster presentation at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Lisbon, Portugal. (16–20 June 2024)

Doshi, A., Huang, W., & Weinert, S. (2024). Early self-regulation and later social development across the preschool and elementary school years. Paper presentation at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Lisbon, Portugal. (16–20 June 2024)

Huang, W., & Hsu, C.-H. (2024). The impact of family background and early child care on children’s language and social competence. Paper presentation at the ISA—RC28 Spring Meeting 2024, Shanghai, China. (17–19 May 2024)

Doshi, A., Weinert, S., & Huang, W. (2023). Concurrent and longitudinal associations between executive functions (EF) and socio-emotional competence in the childhood years. Poster presentation at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS), Munich, Germany. (9–11 October 2023)

Tamayo, N., Huang, W., & Law, J. (2021). The intimate association between academic outcomes and socioemotional development across childhood and adolescence. Presentation at hybrid DIAL Final Conference, Brussel, Belgian. (22 October 2021)

Huang, W., Weinert, S., von Maurice, J., & Attig, M. (2021). Maternal socioemotionally supportive and cognitive-verbally stimulating parenting behaviors and child development. Paper presentation at PremLife/SEED Virtual Conference “Dynamics of inequality across the life course: The role of micro- and macro-system variables for language, academic, and mental health development”. (7–8 June 2021)

Huang, W., Weinert, S., Wareham, H., Law, J., Attig, M., von Maurice, J., & Roßbach, H.-G. (2021). The emergence of 5-year-olds’ behavioural difficulties in the UK and Germany. Paper presentation at the online American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2021. (8–12 April 2021)

Huang, W., Attig, M., von Maurice, J. & Weinert, S. (2019). Toddler’s language and social competence: Impacts of socioeconomic status and parenting behaviour. Paper presented at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS), Potsdam, Germany. (24–27 September 2019)

Huang, W., Volodina, A. & Weinert, S. (2019). Is supportive parenting really associated with problem behavior? Insight from the cohort of German five-year old children. Paper presented at the Section of Educational Psychology and Developmental Psychology (paEpsy), Leipzig, Germany. (9–12 September 2019)

Huang, W., Attig, M., von Maurice, J. & Weinert, S. (2019). Toddler’s social competence: impacts of socioeconomic status and parenting behaviour. Paper presented at ISA—RC28 Summer Meeting 2019, Princeton, the USA. (15–18 August 2019)

Huang, W., Attig, M., von Maurice, J. & Weinert, S. (2019). Socioeconomic background and toddler’s social competence: Analyzing the association. Paper presented at DIAL Mid-Term Conference, Turku, Finland. (5–8 June, 2019)