
Shichong Li
- Email: edsl@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Children's agency in peer relations: taking the Chinese Left-behind Children as an example
- Supervisors: Dr Gill Main, Dr Anne Luke
Profile
I achieved my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction at Southwest University in China. During my stay, I had three journal publications, one conference presentation experience, and two academic exchanges, respectively, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA and National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan. I also participated in three research projects in China by collecting data, structuring literature reviews and writing reports.
Currently, I am pursuing my PhD at the University of Leeds, researching children’s agency in peer relations in the Chinese context. My participants are the Left-behind Children (LBC) in China whose parents are migrant workers of China’s ongoing internal migration under economic boost. From my perspective, weaving theories from the sociology of childhood with a focus on LBC’s daily life would raise people’s awareness of what children care about and their living conditions from children’s perspective. I mainly use debates on children’s agency to navigate my research regarding LBC’s peer relations in family and school contexts.
Research interests
- Sociology of childhood
- Children’s agency in the Chinese context
- Family relations in contemporary China
- Research ethics in practice
- Ethical dilemmas of childhood studies in the Chinese context
- Cross-cultural perspectives
- Migration (internal and external) studies
- Migrant parents
Qualifications
- MA in Curriculum and Instruction at Southwest University (China)
- BA in English Teaching at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering
- Student Assistant and Student Ambassador at the Faculty of Education, Southwest University (China)
- Certificate of the Exchange Program at National Chung Hsing University
- Teacher's Certificate of the PRC in High School English Teaching
Research groups and institutes
- ICY: Inclusion, Childhood & Youth Research Centre