Dr Senhu Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge in 2019. Before coming to NUS, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His general research interests comprise work and family, medical sociology, demography and quantitative research methods. The overarching aim of his current research is to better understand how changing employment and working conditions (e.g. shorter working hours, flexible working, gig economy) influence people’s health, wellbeing, subjective attitudes, family behavior and life chances in a global context using large-scale survey data and experiment. He is also interested in and has published on topics such as social determinants of health, gender, migration and social inequalities.
He is currently an editorial board member of BMC Public Health and a special issue editor of Journal of Contemporary China. His research on shorter working hours as well as mental health during the COVID-19 has been highly cited and reported by more than 100 media and organizations over the world such as BBC, Financial Times, Guardians, Bloomberg, the UK government and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention etc. His research is currently and has been funded by NUS Start-up Grant, Centre for Family and Population Research Faculty Development Grant, National Social Science Fund of China, Cambridge Political Economy Trust, Department of Work & Pensions UK, Police Care UK etc.
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