Heqing Huang is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. Her research employs ethnographic methods to examine how traditional Chinese culture, Party-state governance, and market liberalisation shape the power structures in Chinese hospitals. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the pandemic, her thesis analyses doctor-patient relationship, organisational structures, gender dynamics, and professional hierarchies in healthcare, showing how multiple institutional logics inform contemporary Chinese society.
Heqing studied sociology at Sun Yat-sen University and University of California, Berkeley. She completed an MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society at Cambridge. Her research interests are grounded in healthcare. Her outreach activities have included work with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, CancerScreen, i-Teams, and the Cambridge Consulting Network to address real-world challenges in health and care.
Heqing is an 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.
She was a member of the winning teams in the Oxford vs Cambridge Varsity competitions in both blind wine tasting and kendo. As a former member of Caius Boat Club, she won numerous titles on Cam with her crews.
