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Sociology Research

 

Heqing Huang is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research is motivated by a neo-institutionalist approach and applies ethnographic research methods to investigate the influence of neoliberalism on the organisation of healthcare in China. It is a case study of an urban flagship hospital in southern China. The study reviews China’s transformation towards a type of neoliberal polity through the prisms of the healthcare sector and a flagship hospital.

Heqing studied sociology at Sun Yat-sen University and University of California, Berkeley. She received an MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are grounded in medical sociology and healthcare. Her outreach activities involve working with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, CancerScreen, i-Teams, and the Cambridge Consulting Network to solve real-world problems in health and care.

Heqing is a tireless advocate for sustainability issues. As the MCR Green Officer at Gonville & Caius College, she led multiple student campaigns and was instrumental in the College’s receipt of the Green Impact Awards. She was a research intern at BT where she investigated options to reduce the carbon footprint of the broadband network. 

Research Interests

Sociology of health and illness; political economy of healthcare; doctor-patient relationship; healthcare organisations; healthcare innovations

Teaching

SOC13: Health, Medicine and Society

Key Publications - Other

Huang, H. (2022), Doctors’ orders: The making of status hierarchies in an elite profession. By Jenkins, Tania M., New York: Columbia University Press. 2020. pp. 352. $120 (hbk); $30 (pbk); $29.99 (ebk). ISBN: 9780231189354. Sociol Health Illn. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13543

Grants and Projects

The Annette Lawson Charitable Trust

Gonville & Caius College Graduate Academic Grant

University of Cambridge Fieldwork Grant

UCCL Grants

Guangzhou Concord Medical Humanities Research and Education Fund

PhD Supervisor

Prof Stuart Hogarth; Prof Darin Weinberg

Media Articles

Awards

Speaker Scholarship, Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 

CSC-Cambridge Scholarship

Chinese Students Awards, Great Britain China Educational Trust

Postgraduate International Conference Travel Awards, Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness

Job Title:
PhD Candidate, Gonville & Caius College
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