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Sociology Research

 

Dr Liming Li is an Affiliated Lecturer within the Sociology Department. She currently holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and is an affiliated researcher at the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health, Institute for Gerontology at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London. Liming studied Sociology and obtained her PhD in 2020 from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.
 

 

Research Interests

Liming’s research focuses on how public policies shape people’s life chances and contribute to inequalities of health. Her topics of interests include work and employment, ageing, child development, intergenerational transfer, mental health, and public policy evaluation.

Liming currently works on the British Academy funded project ‘Understanding the impact of higher education expansion policy on women’s empowerment’. This project examines the impact of policies that expanded women’s access to higher education on their sense of empowerment, using quantitative (quasi-experimental) and qualitative methods.

Previously, Liming worked on the ESRC-funded programme 'Work, welfare reform and mental health', which looked at welfare reforms, work, employment, and their mental health implications in the context of the UK. She also worked on the EU-funded project 'MINDMAP: promoting mental wellbeing in the ageing urban population: determinants, policies and interventions in European cities'.
 

Research Projects

‘Does free childcare improve mother's mental wellbeing? Quasi-experimental evidence from the UK’, 2022 (accepted by European Health Economics Association 2022 conference and Population Association of America 2023 conference)

 

Looked-after children: the causal impact of the Adoption Support Fund and mental health of adopted children from British adoptive families. 2023

Employment transition and mental health of the self-employed: longitudinal evidence from the UK, 2022

‘Higher education expansion and marital wellbeing: quasi-experimental evidence from China’, 2022

Teaching

Liming has experience in convening quantitative research methods modules and supervising dissertations at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is also available to supervise topics on social theory, global capitalism, gender, health, and medicine.

Key Publications - Journal Articles

Li, L and Avendano, M., 2023. Lone parents’ employment policy and child socioemotional development: Quasi-experimental evidence from a UK reform. (Forthcoming.)

Li, L, Avendano, M, and Morgan, M., 2023. Looked-after children: the causal impact of the Adoption Support Fund and mental health of adopted children from British adoptive families. (Forthcoming.)

Li, L. et al., 2021. Aircraft noise control policy and mental health: a natural experiment based on the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(5), pp.458-463. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214264

Grants and Projects

Understanding the impact of higher education expansion policy on women’s empowerment (2023-26); Funded by the British Academy; Principal Investigator: Dr Liming Li
 

Looked-after children: impact of thenAdoption Support Fund and mental wellbeing in British adoptive families’ (2021-22); Funded by What Works for Children’s Social Care (1188350); Principal Investigator: Dr Liming Li
 

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Affiliated Lecturer
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