Email: qx2m19@soton.ac.uk
Qingyang Xu is a postgraduate research student based in Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton. Qingyang Xu focuses on studying work-life interface and career transition in digital platform work context using in-depth qualitative approach.
My research focuses on exploring how individuals experience and manage work and life role interaction when the pre- and post-transition roles are simultaneously held over a period of time. It aims to uncover the lived experience of online content creators and the individualistic response to work and life role interaction in a precarious working context. The research adopts the constructionism epistemological lens and interpretivism theoretical perspective.
Start Date: 30 September 2021
Thesis Title: Unpacking the work-life interaction in the digital platform work context: a role-transition perspective.
Supervisors: Dr. Mina Beigi; Dr. David Cross
Qingyang gained an MSc in Human Resource Management at the University of Southampton. Before studying Master’s, Qingyang had working experience as a human resource management assistant in companies in China.