Publications

Journal articles (* corresponding author, if not first author)

2024

1. Qian, Y. & Hu, Y. (2024). The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework. Journal of Marriage and Family. [Open access]

2. Qian, Y. & Hu, Y. (2024). How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada. Journal of Marriage and Family. [Open access]

3. Abouelenin, M. & Hu, Y. (2024). Food insecurity and affective well-being during COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa. Journal of Affective Disorders. [Open access]

2023

4. Hu, Y. & Denier, N. (2023). Sexual orientation identity mobility in the United Kingdom: A research note. Demography. [Open access]

5. Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2023). Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world. Nature Human Behaviour. [Companion research briefing: Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2023). How do mothers matter for intergenerational mobility globally? Nature Human Behaviour.] [Full Text]

6. Hu, Y. & Coulter, R. (2023). (Un)making occupational gender segregation: Intergenerational reproduction of gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in China. Gender, Work & Organization. [Open access]

7. Tarafdar, M., Rets, I. & Hu, Y. (2023). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? ICT-enabled workplace practice and a new agenda for inclusion research in information systems. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. [Open access]

8. Abouelenin, M. & Hu, Y. (2023). Maternal employment shapes daughters’ employment stability in Egypt: Evidence for the intergenerational transmission of labor force attachment. Sex Roles, 88: 35–51. [Open access]

9. Phraknoi, N., Sutanto, J., Hu, Y.*, Goh, YS., & Lee, C. (2023). Older people’s needs in urban disaster response: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. [Open access]

10. Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Broadhurst, K., Bedston, S., Clifton, J., Hu, Y., & Brandon, M. (2023). ‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers. Child and Family Social Work. [Open access]

2022

11. Hu, Y., Xu, C. & Tu, M. (2022). Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese Sociological Review, 54(1): 1–27. [PDF]

12. Hu, Y. (2021). Divergent gender revolutions: Cohort changes in household financial management across income gradients. Gender & Society, 35(5): 746–77. [Open access]

13. Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (joint first author, 2022). Protecting older adults’ mental health in the pandemic. BMJ, 237: 256. [Open access]

14. Hu, S., Al-Ani, J.A., Hughes, K.D., Denier, N., Konnikov, A., Ding, L., Xie, J., Hu, Y., Tarafdar, M., Jiang, B., Kong, L., Dai, H. (2022). Balancing gender bias in job advertisements with text-level bias mitigation. Frontiers in Big Data, 5: 1–10. [Open access]

2021

15. Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (joint first author, 2021). COVID-19, Inter-household contact and the mental well-being of older adults in the USA and the UK. Frontiers in Sociology, 6: 1–15. [Open access]

16. Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2021). COVID-19 and adolescent mental health in the UK. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69(1): 26–32. [Open access]

17. Qian, Y. & Hu, Y.* (joint first author, 2021). Couples’ changing work patterns in the UK and the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(S2): 535–53. [Open access]

18. Hu, Y. (2021). How does age shape social interactions? Interviewer-age effects, normative age distance, and gender attitudes. European Sociological Review, 37(4): 673–93. [PDF]

19. Nehring, D. & Hu, Y.* (2021). From public to commercial service: State-market hybridisation in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–2021. British Journal of Sociology, 72(5): 1325–46. [PDF]

20. Nehring, D. & Hu, Y.* (joint first author, 2021). COVID-19, nation-states and fragile transnationalism. Sociology,  56(1): 183–90. [Open access]

2020

21. Hu, Y. (2020). Intersecting ethnic and native–migrant inequalities in the economic impact of COVID-19 in the UK. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 68: 1–6. [Open access]

22. Hu, Y. (2020). Marital disruption, remarriage and child well-being in China. Journal of Family Issues, 41(7): 978–1009. [Open access]

23. Li, X., Hu, Y., Huang, C-Y. & Chuang, S. (2020). Beyond WEIRD-centric theories and perspectives: Masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 13(3): 317–33. [PDF]

24. Shen, Y. & Hu, Y.* (2020). Emotional labour in a translocal context: Rural migrant workers in China’s service sector. Social and Cultural Geography, 23(4): 521–38. [PDF]

25. Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Bedston, S., Broadhurst, K., Hu, Y., Clifton, J., Brandon, M. (2020). ‘I had no hope, I had no hope at all’: Insights from a first study of fathers and recurrent proceedings. Societies, 10(4): 1–16. [Open access]

2019

26. Hu, Y. (2019). What about money? Earnings, household financial organisation, and housework. Journal of Marriage and Family, 81(5): 1091–1109. [PDF]

27. Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (joint first author, 2019). Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order. Demographic Research, 41(3): 53–82. [PDF]

28. Wang, S. & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration and health in China: Linking sending and host societies. Population, Space and Place, 25(6): 1–11. [PDF]

29. Zhao, M. & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration premium? Economic returns to graduate inter-province migration in post-reform China. Journal of Youth Studies, 22(10): 1409–28. [PDF]

30. Bedston, S., Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Brandon, M., Broadhurst, K. & Hu, Y.* (2019). Linked lives: Gender, family relations and recurrent care proceedings in England. Children and Youth Services Review, 105C (104392): 1–13. [PDF]

2018

31. Hu, Y. & Shi, X. (2018). The impact of China’s one-child policy on intergenerational and gender relations. Contemporary Social Science (Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences), 15(3): 360–77. [PDF]

32. Hu, Y. (2018). Patriarchal hierarchy? Gender, children’s housework time and family structure in post-reform China. Chinese Sociological Review, 50(3): 310–38. [PDF]

33. Hu, Y. & Yucel, D. (2018). What fairness? Gendered division of housework and family life satisfaction across 30 countries. European Sociological Review, 34(1): 92–105. [PDF] 

34. Hu, Y. & To, S. (2018). Family relations and remarriage post-divorce and post-widowhood in China. Journal of Family Issues, 37: 1413–44. [PDF]

35. Cebolla-Boado, H., Hu, Y., & Soysal, Y. (authors ordered alphabetically, 2018). Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(3): 365–80. [PDF]

2017

36. Hu, Y. (2017). Attitudes toward transnational intermarriage in China: Testing three theories of transnationalization. Demographic Research, 39(8): 2286–2310. [PDF]

37. Hu, Y. & Coulter, R. (2017). Living space and psychological well-being in urban China: Differentiated relationships across socio-economic gradients. Environment and Planning A, 49(4): 911–29. [PDF]

38. Coulter, R. & Hu, Y. (2017). Living apart together and cohabitation intentions in Great Britain. Journal of Family Issues, 38(12): 1701–29. [PDF]

2016 and before

39. Hu, Y. (2016). Marriage of matching doors: Marital sorting on parental background in China. Demographic Research, 35: 557–80. [PDF]

40. Hu, Y. (2016). Impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China. Asian Population Studies, 12(3): 251–72. [PDF]

41. Hu, Y. (2016). Sex ideologies in China: Examining inter-province differences. Journal of Sex Research, 53 (9): 1118–30. [PDF]

42. Hu, Y. & Scott, J. (2016). Family and gender values in China: Generational, geographic and gender differences. Journal of Family Issues, 37(9): 1267–93. [PDF]

43. Hu, Y. (2015). Gender and children’s housework time in China: Examining behavior modeling in context. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77(5): 1126–43. [PDF]

Book

1. Hu, Y. (2016). Chinese-British Intermarriage: Disentangling Gender and Ethnictiy. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Nominee, 2017 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize)

Book chapters

1. Cabalquinto, E. & Hu, Y. (2023). The transnationalisation of intimacy: Family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media. In Waters, J. & Yeoh, B. (Eds.) Handbook of Migration and the Family. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

2. Konnikov, A., Rets, I., Hughes, K. D., Al-Ani, J.A., Denier, N., Ding, L., Hu, S., Hu, Y., Jiang, B., Kong, L. Tarafdar, M., & Yu, D. (2022). Responsible AI for labour market equality. In Haintrais, L. (Ed.) How to Manage International Multidisciplinary Research Projects. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

3. Chuang, S. S., Li, X., Huang, C., Hu, Y. (2021). Critically assessing the methodological challenges of exploring Chinese immigrant fathers. In S.S. Chuang, R. Moodley, U. P. Gielen, & S. Akram-Pall (eds.) Asian families in Canada and the United States. NY: Springer. 

Project/policy reports

1. Hu, Y., Tarafdar, M., Al-Ani, J. A., Rets, I., Hu, S., Denier, D., Hughes, K. D., Konnikov, A., & Ding, L. (2022). Gendered STEM workforce in the United Kingdom: The role of gender bias in job advertising. BIAS project evidence submission to the ‘Diversity in STEM’ inquiry, Science and Technology Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament. 28 pp.

2. Philip, G., Bedston, S., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Broadhurst, K., Brandon, M. & Hu, Y. (2021). ‘Up against it’: Understanding fathers’ repeat appearances in local authority care proceedings—Final project report. London: Nuffield Foundation. 213 pp. (Book-length report; also published an accompanying Briefing Report, 12 pp.)

3. Philip, G., Bedston, S., Hu, Y., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Brandon, M. & Broadhurst, K. (2018). Building a picture of fathers in the Family Justice System in England. London: Nuffield Foundation. 32 pp.

Peer-reviewed conference papers

1. Tarafdar, M., Rets, I. & Hu, Y. (2022). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? The role of ICT-enabled inclusion practices. The 30th European Confernece on Information Systems, 33: 1–10. (Runner-up, best research-in-progress paper)

2. Chen, L., Büscher, M. & Hu, Y. (2020). Crowding out the crowd: The transformation of network disaster communication patterns on Weibo in Chinese natural disasters. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, pp. 472-79. 

3. Bedston, S., Hu, Y., Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Brandon, M., Broadhurst, M., & Clifton, J. (2019). Understanding recurrent care proceedings: Competing risks of how mothers and fathers enter subsequent care proceedings in England. International Journal of Population Data Science, 4(3):136.

4. Chen, L., Büscher, M. & Hu, Y. (2019). On liquid ground: Contesting facts and responsibilities on Weibo during the Shouguang flood. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, pp. 288–97. 

Short review article

1. Hu, Y. (2018). Migratory Struggles and the Intersection between Gender, Class and Place in China. Nan Nü (Brill). 20(2): 353–359.