Research Interest: Gender & education; articulation/discourse; affect theory; identity/personhood; lifestyle & expression; autonomous knowledge production

Liurong is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she also completed her undergraduate studies in Sociology with a minor in Translation. She is presently a full-time Teaching Assistant at the department.

Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a research assistant on projects related to migrant parenting (National Institute of Education), intergenerational value transmission, and Singapore–Africa knowledge mobility and smart city modelling at the NUS Department of Geography, as well as research on migrant families at the Asia Research Institute (NUS).

Her current research examines intergenerational (mother–daughter) affective experiences within transnational migrant-marriage families in Singapore, focusing on how emotions such as shame, aspiration, and care shape women’s emergence of personhood through the discourse of education. She seeks to unpack how education functions simultaneously as a disciplinary public institution, a booming monetized market, and a private horizon of aspiration—probing how the promise of education comes to animate hope, desire, and imagined social futures.