Yingzi Shen

Yingzi studied Journalism and Communication at masters' level at Peking University in China. Her experience of doing voluntary work in non-profit organisations fostered her keen interest in migrant workers and family care. 

Her Masters dissertation examined how the emotional labour of domestic workers is professionalised and controlled by domestic service companies, and what influence the process has on domestic workers' self-identity and work experience. 

Yingzi is awarded with the University of Sheffield Joint China Scholarship Council Scholarship for her 4-year PhD programme. 

Her PhD research is focused on the dynamics and arrangements of childcare amongst internal migrant workers' families in China. Specifically, this project investigates migrant workers' intergenerational cooperation on childcare practices in urban areas, and how the wellbeing of older migrants is influenced by rural-to-urban migration and providing childcare. Furthermore, her project also explores the gender relations and dynamics during childcare practices in the context of rural-to-urban migration.