Research Interest:  Social capital, social networks, welfare regimes, health, inequality

I am a PhD student in sociology affiliated to the Center for Family and Population Research at National University of Singapore. My research interests include social capital, network ties, population health, welfare regimes and inequality. Prior to join this program, I was a research assistant with Global Production Network Center. I obtained my master’s degree in Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Dissertation:  My doctoral research is an international comparative study, unfolding the interrelationships among social capital, welfare regimes and population health. Particularly, I engage with five ideal-type welfare regimes (namely Social Democratic, Corporatist, Liberal, Post-communist and East Asian) and explore how social capital exerts different influences on people’s health status across these contexts and why by analyzing ISSP2017 dataset. Meanwhile, the mechanisms of how it works are also examined by welfare regimes to elucidate both the micro- and macro-level factors that either moderate or mediate the relationship between social capital and health.