Dr Yu Chen
BSc (SHUFE, Shanghai) MSc (Fudan, Shanghai); MSc (Oslo); PhD (Glasgow)
Profile
Dr Chen joined the School of East Asian Studies in November 2012. She gained her PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow. Before that, she had obtained BSc from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, MSc from Fudan University and another MSc from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Her PhD thesis examines labour market experience of migrants in China using both qualitative and quantitative data from fieldwork in Shanghai. Since then she had been involved in externally-funded research projects on housing market dynamics at the same department (Urban Studies) in Glasgow. She was a team member of the project entitled 'Scottish model of housing supply and affordability' and an EPSRC project (CREW) on floods and the housing market. In November 2011 she was awarded a fellowship funded by the journal of Urban Studies.
Research Interests
Dr Chen’s research interests are in China’s urbanisation and population movement, city development, urban labour market and housing.
Her current research project, funded by the Universities China Committee in London and Adam Smith Research Foundation, explores new-generation migrants’ socio-economic integration in urban China, and the extent to which migrants’ choices and constraints in labour and housing markets influence their integration.
Teaching
Dr Chen believes that teaching should be student-centred. Through various teaching methods, students will gain not only knowledge about specific subjects, but transferable skills of critical thinking, logical reasoning, problem solving and good communication.
Publications
Book Chapters
Chen, Y. and Pryce, G. (2013 in press) ‘Migrants' job-search in urban China: Social networks and the laour market’, in: F. Wu, F. Zhang, C. Webster (Eds.) Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism, London: Routledge.
Refereed Journal Articles
Chen, Y., Fingleton, B., Pryce, G., Chen, A. & Djordjević, S. (2013 in press): Implications of rising flood-risk for employment location: A GMM spatial model with agglomeration and endogenous house price effects, Journal of Property Research. DOI:10.1080/09599916.2013.765499.
Chen, Y., Gibb, K., Leishman, C. and Wright, R. (2012) The impact of population ageing on house prices: a micro-simulation approach, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 59 (5), pp. 523-542.
Chen, Y. (2011) Occupational attainment of migrants and local workers: findings from a survey in Shanghai’s manufacturing sector, Urban Studies, 48 (1), pp. 3-21.
Chen, Y. (2011) Rural migrants in urban China: Characteristics and challenges to public policy, Local Economy, 26 (5), pp. 325-336.
Chen, Y. and Hoy, C. (2011) Explaining migrants’ economic vulnerability in urban China: Institutional discrimination and market imperatives, Asian Population Studies, 7 (2), pp. 123-136.
Pryce, G., Chen, Y. and Galster, G. (2011) The impact of floods on house prices: an imperfect information approach with myopia and amnesia, Housing Studies, 26 (2), pp. 259-279.
Pryce, G. and Chen, Y. (2011) Flood risk and the consequences for housing of a changing climate: an international perspective, Risk Management, 13 (4), pp. 228-246.
Chen, Y. (2009) Migrants in Shanghai’s manufacturing companies: Employment conditions and policy implications, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2 (3), pp. 279-292.
Chen, Y. and Hoy, C. (2008) Rural migrants, urban migrants and local workers in Shanghai: Segmented or competitive labour markets? Built Environment, 34 (4), pp. 499-516.
Encyclopaedia Entry
Chen, Y. and Pryce, G. (2012) Environmental risks: flooding. In: Smith, S.J. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 104-108.
Book Review
Chen, Y. (2009) Review of China's emerging cities: The making of new urbanism, edited by Fulong Wu, Planning Theory and Practice, 10 (4). pp. 551-552.
Published Report
Leishman, C., Gibb, K. , Meen, G., O'Sullivan, T. , Young, G., Chen, Y. , Orr, A. and Wright, R. (2008) Scottish model of housing supply and affordability: Final report, Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK.
Professional Activities
• Reviewer for Urban Studies, Housing Studies, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Europe-Asia Studies, Geoforum,
Environment and Planning, Urban Studies Research, Journal of Property Research, International Journal
of Housing Policy, Journal of Housing and Built Environment
• Reviewer for ESRC research proposal
• Member of Development Studies Association
• Member of Regional Studies Association
• Member of Applied Quantitative Methods Network AQMeN
Research Supervision
Dr Chen welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in the fields of urbanisation, migration, urban development and housing.