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Dr Liming Li

Dr Liming Li is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Sociology. She is also a Lecturer of Quantitative Social Science and Health at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London. Liming studied Sociology and obtained a PhD in 2020 from the University of Cambridge.

Research Interests

Liming is interested in examining social inequalities in education, employment, family and child development, ageing and mental health, in particular inequalities induced by social policy reforms and interventions.

Liming currently works on a British Academy funded project on higher education expansion and women's empowerment, using quasi-experimental and qualitative methods. Previously, Liming was a Research Associate on an ESRC-funded programme 'Work, welfare reform and mental health' in the context of the UK and an EU-funded project 'MINDMAP: promoting mental wellbeing in the ageing urban population in European cities'.

Research Projects

Liming has several ongoing projects that cover the following topics:

Early life adversity and later life health
Self-employment transitions and mental health
Higher education expansion and mental health
Higher education expansion and women's empowerment
Elite college access and young people's socio-emotional skills

Teaching

Liming teaches quantitative data analysis (Cambridge Research Methods) and supervises for SOC2 and SOC3 (Sociology) as well as dissertation modules (Sociology and Gender Studies).

Publications

Journal Articles

Has the UK Campaign to end loneliness reduced loneliness and improved mental health in older age? A difference-in-differences design. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32(3), pp.358-372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2023.10.007

Lone parents' employment policy and adolescents’ socioemotional development: Quasi-experimental evidence from a UK reform. Social Science & Medicine, 320, p.115754. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115754

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: https://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 the Adoption 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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