Postgraduate Students
CABBUAG , Samuel
Ph.D Student
Samuel I. Cabbuag is a PhD Sociology student at the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also an Assistant Professor (on study leave) of Sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman where he finished both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. His research interests include digital sociology, cultural sociology, media and cultural studies, digital cultures, popular culture, and fan studies. He has published in the Philippine Sociological Review, Asian Politics & Policy, Plaridel, Katipunan, and Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal. His recent co-authored publications include a public report in collaboration with Internews entitled Understudied Digital Platforms in the Philippines, which investigated the information ecosystem of TikTok and WeChat, and a study on pseudonymous influencers in the Philippines and the complicities of influencer industries with disinformation.
CHEN, Yanming 陳艷明
Ph.D Student
CHEN Yanming is a PhD Sociology student from Fuzhou, China. He obtained a master's degree in Communication Studies at Beijing Normal University after completing a B. A. in Journalism at Sichuan University. Broadly informed by media sociology, cultural studies and gender studies, he has developed wide research interests in marginal, informal and undiscovered social life in contemporary China, for example, memory construction of a university with fraught histories and gay men online dating. He is highly intrigued by meaning-making, negotiation, and conflicts in social interactions and also prefers to interrogate peripheral social facts in larger questions. This is why his PhD research plans to use ethnographic methods to empirically investigate female abandonment and family reconnection, with the context of (post-) One-child Policy. This tentative research enables him to critically understand modern Chinese history along with ongoing societal transformation by examining the intersectionality among culture, gender, family, social reproduction, morality and emotion. He also anticipates to engage in close dialogue with historical anthropology and South China studies. He would very much welcome researchers with similar research interests to discuss with him.
DENG, Gezhi 鄧格致
Ph.D Student
DENG Gezhi is a full-time Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology. She holds an MSc Degree in Social Policy and Social Research from UCL, a Master of Public Policy from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor in History from Nankai University. Multi-disciplinary learning allows her to discover more interesting entry points. She is interested in studying social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, and residential segregation. Her master's dissertation focused on the ways in which family SES affects intergenerational mobility of education, and the differences in the size of its impact on different groups. Her recent research is about the impact of spatial inequality on educational outcomes. She mainly uses quantitative methods to conduct her research.
Han, Jiashan (Mary) 韓佳杉
Ph.D Student
Jiashan Han is a full time Ph.D Sociology student from Xi'an, China. She holds a Master of Social Science (M.S.S.) from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Bachelor in Business Administration (BA) from Seattle University. She has traveled to 7 countries and has studied abroad in Canada, U.S., Guatemala, and Japan. She co-authored the paper, Mommy and Me: raising implicit followership theories, which was published in Industrial and Commercial Training. She has also presented at 2 international conferences, the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention and the Global Followership Conference (GFC). She specializes in Gender, Women, and LGBTQ studies. Her current research topic focuses on gendered educational system in China which has a tendency reinforcing masculinity over femininity. She is interested in studying gender inequality, institutional sex segregation, and how gender issues intertwine with social changes.
JIANG, Shengnan 蔣胜男
Ph.D Student
JIANG Shengnan is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology. She specializes in social networks and economic sociology. She holds an M.SocSc. Degree in Contemporary China Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University, and an M.A.degree in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current interests are digital economic practices between Hong Kong and Mainland China. At this stage, her empirical analysis deals with the life insurance industry in Hong Kong. She investigates the influence of social media on social network development in facilitating cross-border life insurance transactions. Her research will be mainly conducted with qualitative methods.
LAI, Tsz Chung 黎梓聰
Ph.D Student
LAI Tsz Chung is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Government and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Master's degree in China Development Studies from The University of Hong Kong. His current project concerns industrial upgrading, social upgrading and migrant services in China and Southeast Asia. His research interests include urban sociology, development issues, migration and labour, community governance, geospatial analysis, and digital methods for social sciences.
MENG, Lu 孟露
PhD student
MENG Lu is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology. She holds a Master's degree in Social Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include gender roles and inequalities, family sociology, and social demography. Her current project focuses on domestic outsourcing and the division of household labor. Her research will be mainly conducted with quantitative methods.
SUI, Muyun 隋沐沄
PhD student
Muyun is a full-time PHD student from Mainland China, Nei Mongol. She obtained her master's degree in financial economics from the University of Manchester, UK; and her bachelor's degree in economics from Xi'an-Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) and the University of Liverpool, UK. She has a strong passion for the areas of social stratification, economic inequality, sociology of the family, and demographics. She has a strong passion for the areas of social stratification, economic inequality, family sociology, and demographics. The topic of her current research is related to fertility intentions and economic inequality. She is very much welcome to communicate and cooperate with researchers who have similar research interests.
YIN, Yize 尹伊泽
Ph.D Student
Yin Yizei is a full-time Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology. She holds a master's degree in Social Science from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor's degree Waseda University. Her research interests include migration, youth transition, social mobility and cultural sociology. Her current research focuses on the emerging lifestyle of digital nomadism in China amidst the backdrop of postmodern labor landscape and social changes.
ZHONG, Minghan 鍾明晗
Ph.D Student
I obtained my bachelor's degree in Journalism and Communication at Peking University, where I also developed a foundational interest in sociology. During a research-based exchange program at Waseda University, I employed sociological perspectives and theories to examine specific social phenomena. My research interests encompass migration, family, and gender studies. My PhD proposal focuses on the examination of forced migration families and the social changes they have undergone since the 1990s, analyzed through a gendered lens. This study will be conducted in my hometown of Hubei, China. Furthermore, I am intrigued by studies of family reproduction and education, which I intend to incorporate into my future research endeavors.