Skip to content
Our Faculty Sarah Shi Hui Wong
A headshot of smiling Sarah Shi Hui Wong who has short black-brown hair of shoulder length. She is wearing glasses with a grey and red frame and a red blouse and a gold necklace.
Sarah Shi Hui Wong
Social Sciences (Psychology)
Lecturer

Dr Sarah Shi Hui Wong is a Lecturer of Psychology (Social Sciences) at Yale-NUS College. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the National University of Singapore (NUS), after attaining a MA (with Distinction) in Music Psychology in Education from the University of Sheffield, and a B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.) degree in Psychology from NUS. Concurrently, she holds a Licentiate Diploma (LTCL) with Distinction in Piano Performance from Trinity College London, a Licentiate Diploma (LLCM) with Distinction (Approved, Upper Level) in Piano Duet Performance from the London College of Music, and a Diploma of The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (DipABRSM) in Violin Music Performance.

Dr Wong’s research bridges the fields of cognitive and educational psychology to develop, test, and translate interventions that improve higher order learning. In particular, her recent work examines how people can strategically learn from deliberate errors to flourish from failure.

Her research has been published in journals such as Educational Psychologist, Educational Psychology Review, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. She has received the American Psychological Association (APA) Paul R. Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Student Research Award, and Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis in the Social Sciences and Humanities.