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'.
