Staff profile

Yujing Liu (刘郁婧) is a PhD researcher in Sociology at Durham University, supervised by Prof. Vikki Boliver and Dr. Cora Lingling Xu. She is funded by the Durham-CSC Scholarship. Her research examines how elite families in contemporary China reproduce advantage by shaping their adult children’s career trajectories, life-course decisions, and identities. She has teaching experience across education and sociology, and has contributed to the organisation of large-scale academic events. Yujing previously studied at UCL’s Institute of Education (IOE), where she completed both her undergraduate and master’s degrees. 

• Sociology of Educaiton
• Social Stratification
• Family Studies

Chapter in book

• Socioeconomic Inequalities of Access to Elite Graduate Labour Market Positions in China
  
  Liu, Y. (2024). Socioeconomic Inequalities of Access to Elite Graduate Labour Market Positions in China. In V. Boliver & N. Siddiqui (Eds.), Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education: Access, Diversity and Inclusion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003452430-10