Prof Yaojun Li - personal details

Role: Professor of Sociology

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Tel: 0161 275-0274

Location: Humanities Bridgeford Street-2.13F
School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

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• School of Social Sciences

I joined the Institute for Social Change in April 2007. I had worked as a Lecturer at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, before coming to Oxford University in 1992 to do firstly an MPhil at St Antony's, and then a DPhil at Nuffield, both in Sociology. After graduation in 1997, I worked in various research and teaching positions as Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham Universities before taking the current position. I have conducted, and I am still working on, various research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), Notre Dame University and the John Templeton Foundation of the USA, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the National Assembly of Wales (NAW), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the National Employment Panel (NEP) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC, previously CRE). I am currently working on 'Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity' funded by the EPSRC, 'The Flow of soul: socio-economic foundations of generosity in Britain' funded by Notre Dame University and John Templeton Foundation, 'Social mobility and social capital in China and Britain: a comparative study' funded by the ESRC, 'British Class System', a non-funded 'public good' project by the BBC. I am also to begin soon on a project on 'Social stratification and social harmony in China' funded by the Natural Sciences Foundation of China where I am a Co-PI with colleagues in China and the USA.

I was on the Editorial Board of Sociology and I am a frequent reviewer for journals in sociology and political sciences and for research councils, such as American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, The Sociological Quarterly, Social Networks, Sociology, Sociological Research, Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Comparative Social Research, Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Societies, Australian Journal of Political Studies, Ageing and Society, Comparative European Politics, Social Psychology Quarterly, the ESRC, BA, Leverhulme, and other government research bodies in Britain and other countries/regions (Ireland, Germany, Austra, Czech, Hong Kong and Qatar etc).