Dr. Jianghong Li Ph.D.
Research fields
Professional Background and Research Profile in Brief
Dr. Jianghong Li completed her Bachlor Degree of Arts with a major in English and English Language from Yunnan University, China, in 1982. She then obtained her Master degree in 1986 and PhD in sociology with a minor in economics in 1992 in the United State. She was awarded the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1992-1993 at the University of Washington in Seattle. Between 1994 and 1996 she was a Research Associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Since 2000 she has being conducting research in social epidemiology and child health and development in Perth, Western Australia, collaborating with scientists from population health and epidemiology, psychology, labour economics and biomedical sciences. Before she joined WZB in 2012, Jianghong Li was a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University and Associate Professor at Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia.
She is interested in the broad issue of modernity’s paradox whereby we witness declines in indicators of human development and rising social inequality despite postmodern society’s unprecedented economic prosperity and medical and technological advancements. Her research interest centres around social, economic, psychological, cultural determinants of child health and development; the interface between socioeconomic, psychological and biological factors contributing to inequalities in health and wellbeing. Her research interest and activities (present and past) are multidisciplinary in nature and involve various national contexts (China, US, Australia, and Europe). They can be grouped into five interrelated areas: "Economy and Health", "Social Inequality in Health", "Gender and Health", "Migration, Ethnicity and Health", and "Psychosocial and Nutritional determinants of child health and development". Inequality, health and wellbeing, disadvantage and complex pathways are the key concepts that link these seemingly very diverse research topics together.
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Academic Qualifications
1992 Ph.D., Sociology, Louisiana State University (Minor in Economics), U.S.A.
1986 M.S., Sociology, Valdosta State University, Georgia, U.S.A.
1982 B.A., English and English Literature, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China.
Awards
2007 - 2012 Curtin University Research Fellowship, Australia
1992 - 1993 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Washington, U.S.A.
1987 - 1991 Doctoral Scholarship, Louisiana State University, U.S.A
1984 - 1985 Rotary Scholarship, Valdosta State University (sponsored by the Rotary Club in Albany, Georgia, U.S.A.).
Positions Held
07/2012 – present Senior Researcher, President’s Project Group, Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung).
08/2020 – 08/2022 Adjunct Associate Professor, Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University
06/2020 -- 06/2023 Honorary Research Associate, Telethon Kids Institute
07/2013 -- 07/2019 Honorary Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
10/2010 – 10/2013 Adjunct Associate Professor, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, the University of Western Australia
10/2012 – 09/2018 Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Population Health Research, The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University
01/2011 – 09/2012 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Population Health Research, The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University.
04/2009 – 12/2012 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Developmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University.
10/2007 – 03/2009 Research and Teaching Fellow, Centre for International Health and School of Public Health, Curtin University.
10/2007 – 09/2012 Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Population Sciences, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
10/2007 – Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Western Australia.
2003 – 2007 Senior Research Fellow, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia. (80%)
2000 – 2003 Research Associate/Coordinator for a health services research project, the School of Population Health, the University of Western Australia (60%)
1996 – 1999 Affiliate Research Associate, Institute for Social Policies, University of Göttingen, Germany (parental leave)
1994 – 1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland (60%)
Affiliate Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, U.S.A
1992 – 1993 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, U.S.A. (100%)
1989 – 1991 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A
1987 – 1988 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.
1982 – 1984 Graduate Student, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, U.S.A.
1982 – 1984 Interpreter, Foreign Affairs Office, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China.
Selected Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
[1] Li, J, Giebler, H, Wetter, R, Kenyon Lair, H, and Ellingwood, J. Unequal electoral participation: The negative effects of long work hours and unsociable work schedules in Europe. European Journal of Politics and Gender
[2]Li J., Kaiser T., Pollmann-Schult M., Strazdins L. Long work hours of mothers and fathers are linked to increased risk for overweight and obesity among preschool children: Longitudinal evidence from Germany. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2019;73:723–729.
[3] Li J., Akaliyski P., Schäfer P., Kendall G., Oddy W.H., Stanley F., Strazdins L. Non-linear relationship between maternal work hours and child body weight: Evidence from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study. Social Science & Medicine 2017, 186:52-60
[4] Dockery M., Li J., Kendall G. Sole-parent work schedules and adolescent wellbeing: Evidence from Australia. Social Science & Medicine, 2016, 168: 167-174
[5] Li J., Johnson S., Han W.-H., Andrews S., Dockery M., Kendall G. and Strazdins L. Parents’ nonstandard work and child wellbeing: A critical review of the literature. Journal of Primary Prevention 2014, 35 (1): 53-73
[6] Li J., Robinson, M., Malacova, E., Jacoby, P., Foster, J. & van Eekelen, J.A.M. Maternal life stress events in pregnancy link to children's school achievement at age 10. Journal of Pediatrics, 2013 162 (3), 483-489
[7] Nyaradi A., Li J., Hickling S., Foster J., Oddy W.-H. The role of nutrition in children’s neurocognitive development, from pregnancy through childhood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (MAR) 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00097
[8] Li J., McMurray A., Stanley F. Modernity’s paradox and the structural determinants of child health and wellbeing. Health Sociology Review 2008; 17 (1): 64-77
[9] Li J. Gender inequality, family planning and maternal and child health in a rural Chinese county. Social Science & Medicine 2004; 59:695-708
[10] Li J., König M., Sacchi S., Buchmann M. Further education and occupational mobility in Switzerland. European Sociological Review 2000; 16(1): 43-65