麻豆精选

• PhD in Business and Management Studies, University of Warwick, 2020
• MPhil in Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009
• BSSc in Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Ying joined Birmingham in January 2023 as Assistant Professor in Organisation, Work and Employment. She was previously Lecturer in Work and Employment (2020-22) at the University of Leicester. She had also held teaching positions at Warwick Business School and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick (2018-2020), as well as an early career fellowship at the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study. 

Before moving to the UK in 2014, Ying worked on labour policy research and advocacy, as well as labour education in southern China, where she developed her research interests in working lives of migrant workers in the manufacturing sector. Her doctoral research examined how workers learn about pay on the shopfloor and how workplace dynamics shapes the ways in which they accumulate pay knowledge and contest pay-related practices in Chinese factories from a labour process perspective. 

Since 2020, Ying has expanded her geographical focus to the UK for a broader research agenda on pay transparency, job quality, and equality, diversity and inclusion. She is keen on collaborating with organisations beyond academia, such as trade unions, professional bodies, employer associations and community organisations to advocate responsible and inclusive employment practices.

- Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (MSc International Management (Online))

- People Management and Development (MSc Management)

Ying is interested in supervising PhD projects related to the following areas:

• Employment relations in general, especially in the areas of reward management and pay communication
• Employment prospects and workplace inclusion of immigrants

Research interests

• Pay communication, contestation and negotiation
• Job quality of migrant workers
• Labour process theory 

Current projects

• Employers' compliance with mandatory gender pay gap reporting in the UK: a sectoral comparison
• Employment prospect and job quality of recent Hong Kong immigrants in the UK
• Career development of involuntarily displaced academics