Yang Hu
🤓 Associate Professor in Sociology @ucl.ac.uk
🔎 Family and work changes/inequalities in global contexts
🎓 Director MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social
➕ Co-dicrector @wfrn.bsky.social ECF program
🌐 www.yanghu.co.uk
- Wonderful news that my great friend @imogentyler.bsky.social is elected Vice President of the @britsoci.bsky.social - having worked closely with Imogen for years, I cannot speak highly enough of what a truly caring, visionary, and inspiring leader Imogen is! ❤️🥰 es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-im...
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- 🚨 Our @sriucl.bsky.social 2026 Open Days are landing next week! ⭐️ Feb 4, Wednesday, 12:00-13:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Sociology ⭐️ Feb 5, Thursday, 13:00-14:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Social Policy and in Social Research Methods ➡️ Sign up here and join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/graduate...
- Reposted by Yang HuNigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE. Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
- Reposted by Yang HuJOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
- Reposted by Yang Hu🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT. New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
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- Reposted by Yang HuPlease forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
- A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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- 🚨What's the role of AI in hiring & organisational inequalities? How does an interdisciplinary view matter? Read our new paper (Karen Hughes, Alla Konnikov & @ndenier.bsky.social) in inaugural Human Relations review SI @tavinstitute.org: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @sriucl.bsky.social
- 🚨New year, new paper with the fab Anette Fasang, Ignacio Cabib, Adam Cooper & @robgruijters.bsky.social! We introduce our SI on 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South' & develop a new framework and concepts to advance the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social
- 🤓 Read the whole SI 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South': www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Huge thanks to all authors – we learnt so much from all the papers, and the editorial process has been a wonderful journey of global knowledge co-production for us all 🎉 🫶 @sriucl.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Yang HuResearch by Dr @yanghu.co.uk @sriucl.bsky.social finds concern around technology's impact on privacy, misinformation and work-life boundaries are highest among educated, Western European millennials. In fact, greater use of technology heightens digital anxiety, especially for the digitally literate.
- Resonating with @academicdiary.bsky.social's wonderful annual lecture on "The Paradox of Home" @uclsociology.bsky.social last week.
- From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369... @sriucl.bsky.social
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- Journals - this is so important: Please make this a condition for someone to accept a review invitation, not just part of the review submission. Thank you. 😀
- 🚨 SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN – MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social 🌍 International: Clarke & ISH Centenary (Tuition + Stipend/Accommodation). 🇬🇧 UK: Aziz Foundation (Full Tuition). Scholarship details: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-io... Apply to join MSc/MA Sociology: www.linkedin.com/posts/yang-h...
- Reposted by Yang HuNext RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
- Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows! The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development! wfrn.org/news/announc...
- Reposted by Yang Hu🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social are hiring a permanent Lecturer in Economics. It's a fantastic department that's really going places. Please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL723/l...
- Reposted by Yang Hu🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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- The perks of studying MSc Sociology in the research powerhouse @sriucl.bsky.social - you get to hone your research skills by working in cutting-edge projects with world-leading experts! ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
- Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.
- My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care. A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
- Exciting!! After reviewing many many excellent applications and making recommendations...the first batch of our @ucl.ac.uk @sriucl.bsky.social MSc Sociology offers for 2026/27 entry just went out to our applicants TODAY! Do you have our (first) offer? 🤩 Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
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- 💥 Apps open for 2026/27 entry @sriucl.bsky.social! 📌Sociology MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Data Science MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Social Inequalities MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology of Childhood & Children’s Rights MA www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
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- Who'd thought my op-ed (and research) on the "eldest daughter syndrome" two years ago just made its way into Taylor Swift's new album (track #5 "Eldest Daughter") 🤩 theconversation.com/what-is-elde...
- Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social: 📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx 📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7 📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL 📌Chevening: www.chevening.org Applications open from October 13!
- Reposted by Yang HuCarolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
- What a blast today! Wonderful to welcome the first-ever cohort of Sociology MSc/MA students @sriucl.bsky.social. Our students' passion for (their words) "novel", "world-changing", "rigorous", and "ethical" research is truly inspiring. It's times like these that we do see great hope for the future! 💕
- 🔥 Two-week countdown! Early-career work and family researchers - we look forward to your application! @wfrn.bsky.social
- 🚨Last month to apply for the 2026–2027 Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship (WFRN ECF). wfrn.org/early-career... ✅ Dedicated ECF preconference ✅ ECF travel support fund ✅ ECF peer and professional network ✅ Career development support ✅ Bespoke mentoring And so much more...
- 🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out! We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance. @sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- This is a heartbreaking piece for us to write 💔 Who'd thought (mundane) housework could be so violent (extreme)? But our interviewees urged us to rethink the housework–violence coalition: “for me, it (marital violence) would be... the manner in which I was made to do housework—is that not violence?”
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- Reposted by Yang Hu📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
- Reposted by Yang HuA very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!
- UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky
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- Look forward to serving as a member of #REF2029 sub-panel for Sociology & working with the other panel members. A great privilege and a significant responsibility to read the wonderful works across the diverse spectrum of British Sociology! 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/main-... @sriucl.bsky.social
- Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week. Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️ We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Also excited to launch & lead the new MSc/MA Sociology and welcome our first cohort of students into this one-of-its-kind programme, powered by the powerhouse of interdisciplinary social sciences that is @sriucl.bsky.social 🚨 Applications for 2026 entry opening soon 🔜 www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
- Reposted by Yang HuWe have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social. It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre. Deadline + link 👇
- WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Wonderful opportunity to join a supportive work environment and collegial colleagues! Come and join us!
- WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- 🚨Last month to apply for the 2026–2027 Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship (WFRN ECF). wfrn.org/early-career... ✅ Dedicated ECF preconference ✅ ECF travel support fund ✅ ECF peer and professional network ✅ Career development support ✅ Bespoke mentoring And so much more...
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- What makes a desirable spouse in China? Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
- Reposted by Yang HuWork and families research network conference abstract submission are now open to October! Don't forget to submit your abstract! wfrn.org/2026-work-an
- Reposted by Yang HuOur Demography paper is out! We find that husband's parents matter for the intergenerational transmission of earnings arrangements. Efforts to reinvigorate the stalled gender revolution and promote women’s relative earnings require a recognition that men’s families play a crucial role
- In another August article with a leading question—“Whose Parents Matter?”—Wen Fan & Yue Qian examine 1968-2021 @umpsid.bsky.social data and find that “women earn more if their husband’s mother contributed more to the family income two years after her first birth.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
- Reposted by Yang HuThe Journal of Family Issues (JFI) is seeking a new Editor. This is a great chance to revitalize JFI and help it expand its reach. Please share widely! #familysociology #sociology #familydemography journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...
- 💘 Do apps make dating more efficient? New in @josoperrel.bsky.social August issue, Manlin Cai, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I draw on a temporal lens and in-depth interviews to explore the "efficiency paradox" in how immigrants experience time & efficiency in online dating. doi.org/10.1177/0265...
- How does child marriage alter women's work-family life courses? How do key interventions fare? Mariam Abouelenin & I look into these Qs – we highlight accelerated transition into adulthood as a key feature of life course transitions in the Global South: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Might be of interest to @asa-family.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social
- Heartened my paper w/ Rory Coulter on living apart together and older adults' mental health is still buzzing in the media after...8 months 🤣: Research: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... @telegraphnews.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/... @yahoonews.com: www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...