Dr Yazhen Yang BA, MSc, Mphil, PhD
Visiting Fellow, Research Fellow
Yazhen Yang currently works as an ESRC SCDTP (South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Gerontology, University of Southampton. The project I am working on is: Intergenerational Support Exchange within Chinese, British and European Families. I also convene Module GERO6010: Perspectives in Gerontology (DL).
I joined the Department of Gerontology in 2019 as a Teaching Fellow, teaching and co-convening the Quantitative Research Methods (DL) module and other modules, eg. Ageing, Health and Well-Being (DL).
I have a BSc in Public Administration (Particularly in Human Resources), an MSc in Gerontology from the University of Southampton, an Mphil in Social Protection from Xiamen University, and a PhD in Gerontology from the University of Southampton. The title of my PhD project was Intergenerational Relations: The Changing Pattern of Economic, Social and Psychological Transfers within Chinese Families (analysing the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey using Stata).