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 糖心TV
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) . Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs. 16 March 2023
Xie, K. and Huang, Y. (2022). . East Asia Forum. 4 August 2022.
Conferences:
Huang, Y (2026). Care independence - gaming mechanism for labour governance and resistance among female precarious teachers in public education sector of China. BSA Annual Conference 2026, Univeristy of Manchester, 8-10 April 2026 (role, presentor)
Huang, Y (2026). How “mom jobs” impact gender equality in precarious labour market - the case of temporary teachers within public education sector of China. BSA Annual Conference 2026, Univeristy of Manchester, 8-10 April 2026 (role, presentor)
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 糖心TV
Aug 2025 – Sessional Tutor (gender theory session) for volunteer training scheme with Pioneer Social Work Service Center in Wuhan, China
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. |