Research Interest:   Family and Children, Marriage Patterns, Migration, and Gender Inequality.

Shuya Lu is a 4th-year doctoral student in Sociology at National university of Singapore. She is affiliated with the Center for Family and Population Research (CFPR) as a research scholar under the project of Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG LEADS). Shuya earned her M.A. degree in Social Science – Demographic and Social Analysis, and two B.A. degrees in Sociology and Education from University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on family and children, marriage patterns, international migration, and gender inequality.

Dissertation:
Shuya’s doctoral research used the data from Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SGLEADS) to examine the family dynamics in cross-national families in Singapore. She explores the mediating pathways between family structure to various children’s early developmental outcomes with family stress and parenting practices as two main mediating factors.