Ms Jiaqi Wang began her PhD studies at Lancaster University in October 2024. She will spend her first year at the LISN Lab and continue her work at the Emotion and Communication Lab for the remainder of her PhD. Her research interests centre around the cognitive mechanisms of visual metaphor. She seeks to understand why and how different types of visual metaphor constructions (e.g., juxtaposition, replacement, and fusion), as well as the concreteness of their constituents (concrete, abstract), have varying impacts on conceptualisation. Additionally, she aims to explore why certain types of visual metaphors are more consistently understood than others.