Ying Huang
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Email: Ying.Huang.11@warwick.ac.uk
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Current PhD student
Biography
I am a PhD candidate in Global Sustainable Development, funded by the Chancellor's International Scholarship. My research project is on female temporary workers in the public sector of China. Before my PhD, I was a Chevening Scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, where I developed my research interest in gender and employment. Before that, I had worked in the public education sector in China for 6 years. Besides my professional and educational background, my research is also driven and supported by my long-term engagement with feminist communities.
Research overview
Gender and temporary employment in the public education sector of China
Academic background
MA in Women's Studies
BA in English
Supervisors
- Dr Nicholas Bernards - Global Sustainable Development
- Dr Maria Gavris - Global Sustainable Development
Research interests
Gender, labour, and social inequality against the backdrop of neoliberalism and marketisation, especially with the theoretical lens of social reproduction
Funding and awards
2023-2027 Chancellor's International Scholarship, University of Warwick
2020-2021 Chevening Scholarship, FCDO and University of York
Publications
Journal articles:
Xie, K. & Huang, Y. (2023). Becoming a teacher: a gendered risk aversion strategy among aspirational middle-class women in contemporary China. Le Mouvement Social, 285, 119-138. https://www.cairn-int.info/journal--2023-4-page-119.htm. Both authors made equal contributions.
Commentaries:
Xie, K and Huang, Y. (2023) Changing Norms and Ideas about Reproduction Among Women in China. Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs. 16 March 2023
Xie, K. and Huang, Y. (2022). Protecting women’s rights in China. East Asia Forum. 4 August 2022.
Conferences:
Huang, Y (2025). Gender and Temporary Employment in the Public Education Sector of China. PhD Showcase: BSA Work, Employment and Society Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 8-10 Sep 2025 (role: presenter)
Huang, Y. and Zhao, Y (2024) AAS 2024 Annual Conference: Virtual (role: panel chair, discussant, presenter)
Zhao, Y and Huang, Y (2023) Making ends meet: PhD students as gig labourers in academic capitalism. ASA 2023 Annual Meeting: An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode, SOAS, University of London, UK. 11 - 14 April 2023 (role: presenter)
Teaching
2025 GD206/8: Inequalities and Sustainable Development: Inclusion and Dignity for All
Service
2023-2024: Postgraduate representative, SSLC, School for Cross-Faculty Studies
Media and Public Engagement
Sep.-Dec. 2025 – The Campus Kin Project and further collaboration with Media Lab in the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at University of Warwick
Aug 2025 – Sessional Tutor (gender theory session) for volunteer training scheme with Pioneer Social Work Service Center in Wuhan, China
June 2024 – Pride Parade in London
June 2022 – Guest speaker on the podcast 十色幸野 (Shi se xing ye). Episode: How has my study experience in the UK influenced my feminist identity
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June 2022 – Guest speaker on the podcast 拳人教育 (Why Women Fist). Episode: Abolitionism in the movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. |