School of Social and Political Science

Jing-Yi Wang

PhD Student

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Jingyi.Wang@ed.ac.uk

Research interests

Children, families and relationships Health & Well-being Health inequalities, disability and older people Intimacy

Family sociology, Quantitative methods, Life Course Studies, Social networks analysis, Social gerontology, Older people in Europe, Social support

Background

 

PhD thesis title

Intra-generational relations across family boundaries in Middle and Old Age in Europe: An Egocentric Network Approach

 

Journal Papers

Chen, Yin-Zu and Jing-Yi Wang. 2020. “Doing Masculinities: Exploring Gender and Age in Professionalizing Family Day Care in Taiwan.” The Journal of Men’s Studies, 28(2): 206–222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1060826520901330

 

Chang, Heng-Hao and Jing-Yi Wang. 2016. “From Charity to Civil Rights?: A Content Analysis of Disability Labels and Discourse in Taiwanese Newspaper.” Taiwanese Sociology 31:1-41. (in Mandarin)

 

Recent Conference presentations

 Jing-Yi Wang. 2021. “Emotional closeness and geographical proximity of confidants in old age: Revisiting the convoy model of personal relationships” 5th European Conference on Social Networks. 8th September, 2021.

Jing-Yi Wang. 2020. “Siblinghood in Old Age: From an Ego-centric Network Approach” International Network for Social Network Analysis Sunbelt Virtual Conference. 13-17 July, 2020.

 

Jing-Yi Wang. 2019. “Siblinghood in old age in Europe: An ego-centric, multilevel network approach” Joint SHARE User Conference and Budapest Pension Seminar. Budapest, Hungary. 19-20 September 2019.

 

Yin-Zu Chen and Jing-Yi Wang, 2018, “Doing Masculinities: Exploring Gender and Age in Professionalizing Family Day Care” Gender, Work & Organisation Conference. Sydney, Australia, 13-16 June 2018.

 

Jing-Yi Wang, 2017. “Does Children’s Help Decrease the Gendered Division of Housework in the United Kingdom? A Preliminary Analysis New Directions Conference”. University of Edinburgh, UK.

 

Grants

2018, 2019, 2020: PhD Research Support Fund, University of Edinburgh

2019-2022: Studying Abroad Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Taiwan)

 

Tutoring

Social Network Research: Theories and Analysis Analysis (Semester 2, 2019/20; Semester 2, 2011/22)

Core Quantitative Data Analysis (Semester 1, 2011/22)

Disability Studies (Semester 1, 2016/17)

 

Research experience

Research Assistant, National Taipei University, Taiwan (July 2017 – July 2018, July 2013 – July 2014)

 

Academic Qualifications

MSc by Research in Sociology, University of Edinburgh 2017

BA in Sociology, National Taipei University, Taiwan 2009-2013

 

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