Research Students

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: TBC

Research Interests: Gender and work, Transgender studies, NGOs, Social movements, Digital platforms 

Email: biyidan@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: Mobilizing Social Capital in a gendered way: Women’s entrepreneurial experience in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Email: JiangyiCHEN@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: Structural Gender Inequality, Gendered Judicial System, Changed Opportunities, Relational Dynamics, and Female-Victim Intimate Partner Violence in China: A Big Data Approach Based on Chinese Judgment Documents

Email: gloriagu@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Subject Discipline: Psychology

Thesis Title: Do children also have leadership gender stereotypes? An exploration of elementary school students’ gender-related leadership cognition

Research Interests: leadership/occupational gender stereotypes; prejudice toward gender/sexual minorities

Email: conniehe@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Subject Discipline: Psychology

Thesis Title: How Does Empathy Land?

Research Interests: gender equality, intergroup relations, attitude change, empathy

Email: ang.al@link.cuhk.edu.hk  

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: Negotiating with A Tempered Glass Ceiling: Experiences of Female Coders in China’s High-Tech Industry

Email: lingyan@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Subject Discipline: Psychology

Thesis Title: Gender equality and the pathways to leadership: Cultural and individual patterns of dominance and prestige in female leadership

Research Interests: gender equality, leadership, culture, gender stereotypes, gender awareness

Email: magiyu@link.cuhk.edu.hk  

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: TBC

Research interests: Queer studies; sexualities; LGBTQ+ rights; affect theory; cultural governance; singlehood

Email: xaviericchan@link.cuhk.edu.hk  

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: TBC

Research interests: Gender and Family; Gender and Work; Marriage, Childbearing, and Motherhood; Intimate Relationships; Digital Platforms

Email: peiwei@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Subject Discipline: Sociology

Thesis Title: Men Can’t Say Can’t: The Impotence and Masculinity in Contemporary China

Email: gloriaduan@link.cuhk.edu.hk