Thesis Title: Buffering Effects of Neighbourhood Cohesion: Exploring Life Course Health Inequalities
Supervisors: Dr Lindsay Richards and Professor Jennifer Beam Dowd
Qiuyue is a DPhil student with a strong interest in the social determinants of health and illness. Prior to the DPhil, she completed her MPhil in Sociology and Demography at Oxford and worked as a part-time Research Assistant at the Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.
Her research broadly focuses on using empirical data and quantitative methods to understand how social structures and neighbourhood environments shape individual well-being across the life course. She is also interested in the social construction of illness knowledge and the organisation of healthcare resources during pandemics.
Qiuyue's research seeks to understand how neighbourhood cohesion can mitigate the adverse health effects of individual and area-level socioeconomic disadvantage across the life course in the UK. Drawing on longitudinal and population-level data, she plans to examine the impact of cohesion on health and mortality, the long-term influence of early-life disadvantage, and the role of residential mobility in shaping health inequalities.
Research Interests: Social determinants of health, neighbourhood cohesion, illness and medicine, social mobility
Previous Education: BA Sociology, Xi’an Jiaotong University; MPhil Sociology and Demography, University of Oxford
