Supervisor(s): Man Yee Kan & Lindsay Richards
Research Interests: Inequality; Sociology of Work; Professions; Culture; Gender; Technology; Comparative Sociology; Ethnography
See Pok Loa is a DPhil Candidate in Sociology at the University of Oxford, where he is an affiliate at St. Antony’s College and the Oxford China Centre. His research interests centre around inequality, sociology of work, culture, and technology. His dissertation focuses on social inequality in the context of work transformation. He studies changing beliefs on paid work, and how professional workers navigate job insecurities in the gig economy, comparing two national contexts, China and Japan.
See Pok's other research on inequalities has been accepted and published in The Sociological Review, American Behavioral Scientist (forthcoming), and Asian Population Studies. His work is generously supported by the John Swire Scholarship at Oxford. For more details, please visit his personal website.
Publications
Loa, S. P., & Choi, S. Y. P. (2023). An intimacy field framework: Class, habitus and capital in gay relationships. The Sociological Review. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231157968
Zhou, M., Wang, W., Loa, S.P., & Kan, M.-Y. (2023). Moving in the time of COVID-19: How did the pandemic situations affect the migration decisions of Hong Kong people? Asian Population Studies, 19(2), 204–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193481
