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Room 2.13f Bridgeford Street Building, Manchester University
M13 9PL Manchester
United Kingdom
Supervision areas:
I supervise PhD theses on social mobility and social stratification, social capital, education, labour market positions, ethnic integration and comparative studies, especially between Britain and China.
Current PhD Students:
Wenxi Tang 2022-2025, 'Meritocracy in China: theory and evidence’, main supervisor, with Arkadiusz Wisniowski as co-supervisor, self-funded.
Yu Feng, 2022-2025, ‘The Insecurity and Anxiety of the New Middle Class in China’, co-supervisor, with Hilary Pilkington as main supervisor, self-funded.
Current teaching:
I teach a PGT course in Sociology on Social Capital and Social Change, and a undergraduate course in Sociology on Social Change in China.
Former PhD students:
Visiting PhD students:
Visiting scholars:
I started work in this University in 2000 at the Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR). In 2003, I went to Birmingham University but came back again in 2007 to join the Institute for Social Change (ISC). With the merger of CCSR and ISC into the Cathie Marsh Institute of Social Research (CMI) in August 2014, I have been working in both Department of Sociology and CMI.
I worked at Fudan University in China before coming to study at Oxford University on a Swires Scholarship (funded by John Swires and Sons) for which I am eternally grateful. I did an MPhil at St Antony's College, and a DPhil at Nuffield College, both in Sociology. My research focuses on social mobility and social stratification, with particular regard to class, education, labour market position, social capital and ethnic integration in Britain and China. I welcome PhD students in these areas. I have conducted many projects funded by research councils in Britain and other countries. My publications have appeared as journal articles, book chapters and official reports.
I am on the Editorial Boards of Social Inclusion, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Chinese Sociological Review and I serve on the ESRC Peer Review College. I was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2016.
Research areas
• Social mobility and social stratification
• Social capital, generosity and wellbeing
• Immigrant integration
Research projects
• From Fareej to Metropolis: social capital in Qatar,QNRF (NPRP7-186-5-021), CI, 2014-16.
• Social cohesion for the elderly migrant workers in China, China Social Science Foundation (14BRK008), CI, 2014-17.
• Religion and poverty, JRF (120901AN), CI, 2014.
• Unity out of diversity? Immigrant adaptations in Britain, ESRC (ES/K009206/1), Mentor for Laurence Lessard-Phillips (PI), 2013-16.
• Happiness in China, the Samuel Chan alumni project, 2013-17.
• Understanding changes in ethnic relations, ESRC Research Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) (ES/J020036/1), Co-PI with Nazroo et al. 2013-17.
• Social network and subjective wellbeing in comparative context, Australian Research Council (DP 130100690), Partner Investigator, with Western, Huang and Bian, 2013-16.
• The Flow of Soul: the socio-economic foundations of generosity in Britain, The University of Notre Dame and the John Templeton Foundations of the USA, The Science of Generosity Programme (Prime Grant No. 14229), PI, 2010-12.
• Social mobility and social capital in China and Britain, ESRC (ES/I035168/1) and NSFC (71010090), PI, 2011-13.
• Social stratification and social harmony, NSFC, Co-PI with Bian et al, 2012-16.
• The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID), EPSRC large grant (EP/H02171X/1), Co-PI with Fieldhouse et al, 2010-15.
• Constructing a measure of race equality, DWP, Co-PI with Heath, 2010.
• Civic life in Britain, EHRC, Co-PI with E Fieldhouse et al, 2010.
• Inequalities in education, employment and earnings, EHRC, PI, with Devine and Heath, 2008.
• Measuring the size of employer contribution to ethnic minority employment gap, NEP, Co-PI with Heath, 2007.
• Researching ethnic minority entrepreneurship, ESRC/DTI/CRE/EMD, PI, 2006.
• The socio-economic position of the minority ethnic groups in Britain (1971-2004), ESRC (RES-163-25-0003), PI, with Heath, 2006.
• The unorganised worker, DTI, Co-PI with Pollert, 2004.
• Developing census data for academic and policy research, BA, Co-PI with Fieldhouse, 2004.
• Social capital: developing a measure and assessing its value in social research, ESRC (R000223671), PI, with Savage and Pickles, 2003.
• The housing and socio-economic circumstances of minority ethnic people in Wales, PI, with Purdam, NAW, 2002.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
The service class: conceptual vigour and empirical value, Oxford University
Award Date: 10 Feb 1998
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Price, D. (PI), Haarmans, M. (PI), Chandola, T. (PI), Higgins, V. (PI), Smith, N. (PI), Hannemann, T. (PI), Doran, P. (PI), Prattley, J. (PI), Taylor, H. (PI), Williams, B. (PI), Webber, R. (PI), Phillipson, C. (PI), Nazroo, J. (PI), Yarker, S. (PI), Shryane, N. (PI), Buffel, T. (PI), Cotterell, N. (PI), James, H. (PI), Pendleton, N. (PI), Mekli, K. (PI), Chatzi, G. (PI), Rémillard-Boilard, S. (PI), Pashazadeh, F. (PI), Li, Y. (PI), Matthews, K. (PI), Tampubolon, G. (PI), Kapadia, D. (PI), Gosling, Z. (Support team) & Zhang, N. (PI)
1/08/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
Laurence, J. (PI), Ali-Moore, R. (PI), Campion, K. (PI), Chandola, T. (PI), Begum, N. (PI), Haarmans, M. (PI), Hannemann, T. (PI), Higgins, V. (PI), Shankley, W. (PI), Buffel, T. (PI), Shryane, N. (PI), Brown, M. (PI), Wisniowski, A. (PI), Peters, S. (PI), Sobolewska, M. (PI), Ford, R. (PI), Nazroo, J. (PI), Kapadia, D. (CoI), Byrne, B. (PI), Troncoso Ruiz, P. (PI), Li, Y. (PI), Harris, S. (PI), Aparicio-Castro, A. (PI), Taylor, H. (PI), Cotterell, N. (PI), Chambers, R. (PI), Castillo Jaramillo, J. (PI) & Gosling, Z. (Support team)
1/08/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
Nazroo, J. (PI), Byrne, B. (CoI), Clark, K. (CoI), Ford, R. (CoI) & Li, Y. (CoI)
1/04/17 → 30/09/17
Project: Research
Nazroo, J. (PI), Brown, L. (CoI), Byrne, B. (CoI), Clark, K. (CoI), Finney, N. (CoI), Ford, R. (CoI), Kushnick, L. (CoI) & Li, Y. (CoI)
1/01/13 → 30/09/17
Project: Research
Yaojun Li (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Yaojun Li (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Yaojun Li (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Yaojun Li (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Yaojun Li (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Li, Y. (Creator), University of Manchester, 28 Oct 2014
DOI: 10.15127/1.238175 , http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=851037&type=Data%20catalogue and one more link, http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/851037/ (show fewer)
Dataset
6/01/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research