Wang Senhu

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Wang Senhu

Email: socsw@nus.edu.sg
Location: AS1 #03-22
Office No.: 6516 5248

PROFILE

Dr Senhu Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge in 2019. Before coming to NUS, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His general research interests comprise work and family, medical sociology, demography and quantitative research methods. The overarching aim of his current research is to better understand how changing employment and working conditions (e.g. shorter working hours, flexible working, gig economy) influence people’s health, wellbeing, subjective attitudes, family behavior and life chances in a global context using large-scale survey data and experiment. He is also interested in and has published on topics such as social determinants of health, gender, migration and social inequalities.

He is currently an editorial board member of BMC Public Health and a special issue editor of Journal of Contemporary China. His research on shorter working hours as well as mental health during the COVID-19 has been highly cited and reported by more than 100 media and organizations over the world such as BBC, Financial Times, Guardians, Bloomberg, the UK government and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention etc. His research is currently and has been funded by NUS Start-up Grant, Centre for Family and Population Research Faculty Development Grant, National Social Science Fund of China, Cambridge Political Economy Trust, Department of Work & Pensions UK, Police Care UK etc.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Work and Family, Medical Sociology, Demography, Survey, Experiment

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles

Journal articles (* : Corresponding author)

  1. Wang, Senhu*; Kamerāde, Daiga; Burchell, Brendan; Coutts, Adam; Balderson, Ursula (Forthcoming) What matters more for employees' mental health: Job quality or job quantity? Cambridge Journal of Economics.
  1. Shi, P. Lulu and Wang, Senhu* (equal authorship) (Forthcoming) Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment. Social Science Research.
  1. Gong, Shun and Wang, Senhu* (equal authorship) (Forthcoming) Family policy awareness and marital intentions: A national survey-experimental study. Demography.
  1. Li, Lambert Zixin and Wang, Senhu* (equal authorship) (2022) Do work-family initiatives improve employee mental health? Longitudinal evidence from a nationally representative cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 297 (15): 407-414.
  1. Wang, Senhu and Morav, Liran* (2021) Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities’ interethnic friendships in Britain. British Journal of Sociology, 72(3): 808-828.
  1. Wang, Senhu*; Coutts, Adam; Burchell, Brendan; Kamerāde, Daiga; Balderson, Ursula (2021) Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society, 35(3): 545-565.
  1. Balderson, Ursula*; Burchell, Brendan; Kamerāde, Daiga; Wang, Senhu and Coutts, Adam (2021) An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work. Time & Society, 30(1): 55-77.
  1. Li, Lambert Zixin and Wang, Senhu* (equal authorship) (2020) Prevalence and predictors of general psychiatric disorders and loneliness during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. Psychiatry Research, 291: 113267.
  1. Kamerāde, Daiga*; Wang, Senhu; Burchell, Brendan; Balderson, Ursula and Coutts, Adam (2019) A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being? Social, Science & Medicine, 241:112-353.
  1. Wang, Senhu* (2019) The role of gender role attitudes and immigrant generation in ethnic minority women’s labor force participation in Britain. Sex Roles, 80(3-4): 234-245.
  1. Wang, Senhu* and Coulter, Rory (2019) Exploring ethnic and generational differences in gender role attitudes among immigrant populations in Britain: The role of neighborhood ethnic composition. International Migration Review, 53 (4): 1121-1147.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  1. Zhang, Boyang; You, Yuhan; He, Guangye; Yan, Fei; Wang, Senhu* (Forthcoming) Searching for the rainbow connection: Regional development and LGBT communities in China. Journal of Contemporary China.
  1. Wang, Senhu; Liu, Anran; Guo, Wei* (Forthcoming) Public and commercial medical insurance enrollment rates of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Frontiers in Public Health.
  1. Wang, Senhu; Li, Lambert Zixin; Zhang, Juan; Rehkopf, David* (Forthcoming) Leisure time activities and biomarkers of chronic stress: The mediating roles of alcohol consumption and smoking. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
  1. Wang, Senhu; Li, Lambert Zixin; Van Antwerpen, Natasha; Gayatri, Mergy; Suparman, Sutrisno; Sari, Ningrum Paramita; Zhang, Stephen X.* (2021) Hand hygiene and mask wearing practices during COVID-19 among healthcare workers: Misinformation as a predictor. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 105(6):1483-1489.
  1. Wang, Senhu* and Morav, Liran (2021) Exploring extrinsic and intrinsic work values of British ethnic minorities: The roles of demographic background, job characteristics and immigrant generation. Social Sciences. 10(11): 419.
  1. Zhang, Stephen X*; Marioli, Francisco Arroyo; Gao, Renfei; Wang, Senhu (2021) A second wave? What do people mean by COVID waves? – A working definition of epidemic waves. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. 2021(14): 3775-3782.
  1. Li, Lambert Zixin; Bian, Yucheng and Wang, Senhu (equal authorship)* (2021) Moving beyond family: Unequal burden across mental health patients’ social networks. Quality of Life Research. 30(7): 1873-1879.
  1. Gong, Shun; Xu, Peng and Wang, Senhu* (2021) Social capital and psychological well-being of Chinese immigrants in Japan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(2): 547.
  1. Gong, Shun and Wang, Senhu* (2021) History matters: The long-term impact of historical immigrant size on current xenophobia in Japan. Journal of Chinese Sociology, 8(1): 1-17.
  1. Gong, Shun; Li, Lambert Zixin* and Wang, Senhu (2021) Youth mental health before and after the control of the coronavirus disease 2019: A nationally representative cohort study of Chinese college students. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 3: 100066.
  1. Wang, Senhu; Mak, Hei-Wan and Fancourt, Daisy* (2020) Arts, mental distress, mental health functioning & life satisfaction: fixed-effects analyses of a nationally-representative panel study. BMC Public Health, 20(208).
  1. Wang, Senhu* and Mak, Hei-Wan (2020) Generational health improvement or decline? Exploring generational differences of British ethnic minorities in six physical health outcomes. Ethnicity and Health, 25(7): 1041-1054.
  1. He, Guangye; Chen, Yunsong*; Wang, Senhu* et al. (2020) The association between PM2.5 and depression in China. Dose-Response, 18(3).
  1. Chen, Yunsong; He, Guangye; Chen, Buwei; Wang, Senhu et al. (2020) The association between PM2.5 exposure and suicidal ideation: a prefectural panel study. BMC Public Health, 20(1): 1-10.
  1. Wang, Senhu* and Hu, Yang (2019) Migration and health in China: Linking sending and host societies. Population, Space and Place, 25(6): e2231.
  1. Wang, Senhu and Li, Shuanglong* (2019) Exploring generational differences of British ethnic minorities in smoking behavior, frequency of alcohol consumption, and dietary style. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(12): 2241.
  1. Mak, Hei-Wan*; Kim, Joeun and Wang, Senhu (2019) The role of parent-adolescent relationship in the development of (pre)hypertension in young adulthood in the US. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(2): 258-264.
  1. Liang, Yuhui; Wei, Yuewei; Wang, Senhu* et al. (2019) Impact of international immigration on life satisfaction of local residents in England: Exploring differentiated relationships between socioeconomic gradients. American Journal of Health Behavior, 43(4): 866-876.
  1. Yan, Yudong; Wang, Shuyi; Zhou; Wanying; Wang, Senhu et al. (2019) Does immigrant generation matter? Re-examining the ethnic density effects on mental health of ethnic minorities in Britain. American Journal of Health Behavior, 43(5):924-936.
  1. Wang, Senhu* and Ramsden, Mark (2018) Revisiting the ‘parallel lives’ thesis: Neighbourhood attachment and residential integration of ethnic minorities in England. Population, Space and Place, 24(8): e2156.
  1. Wang, Senhu* (2018) Inching up and socio-economic differentiation: Exploring self-rated health of China’s rural-to-urban migrants from 2005 to 2015. American Journal of Health Behavior, 42(5):117-125.
  1. Wang, Senhu* and Dong Yiqun. (2018) Who does not see a doctor when sick in contemporary China? Exploring urban/rural difference in doctor visit rate and the potential reasons. Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning, 2(3):5-8.