Yang Hu

A great showcase of the range and depth of work happening in our department... talent on display all around.

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research...

In the new issue @jmfncfr.bsky.social, we draw on a national survey experiment to examine people's spouse preferences in China: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Does money trump beauty❓

Are preferences still gendered, or has there been a gender convergence❓

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⭐️ @ruettenauer.bsky.social will share his latest insights into migrant dynamics across 30 countries.

⭐️ Meena Khatwa will showcase her impactful project on online eating disorder content, co-produced with diverse stakeholders.

⭐️ Hear from our students what exciting projects they are working on!

Social sciences online taster sessions Are you a prospective student thinking about studying social sciences at UCL? Join our taster sessions.

🚨 How to change the world as a social researcher & what it takes to do so? What it feels like to study Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Research Methods (with Data Science) MSc/MA at @sriucl.bsky.social?

🔜 Sign up for our social sciences online taster event: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

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New #OpenAccess

Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, @yanghu.co.uk & @yueqiansoc.bsky.social analyze longitudinal data from @usociety.bsky.social to reveal how the use of online banking shape couples' money management and financial decisions

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002

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📰My research (@sriucl.bsky.social) on LAT (living apart together) w/ Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social ) just quoted in @telegraph.co.uk: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

Read our @geronmedia.bsky.social paper on how LAT relates to older adults' mental health here: doi.org/10.1093/gero...

#OutNow in #iCS
Who worries most about digitalisation? Using European Social Survey data from across 30 countries, this article shows concerns cluster by age and education more than income or geography, and rise with digital literacy and exposure.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...

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@asa-family.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social

Catch Me If You Can: The Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically an...

🚨 New paper with Monideepa Tarafdar & Irina Rets doi.org/10.1111/isj....

🤖 Why is bias in machine learning applications so slippery to catch & eliminate? We dive into a key organisation developing AI tools for job/hiring decisions to find out.

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Women who use online banking are more likely hold the purse strings Women in the UK who use online banking tools are nearly five times as likely to manage their household finances and about twice as likely to have the final say in major financial decisions, compared w...

💷 Digital tools may not just make life easier (sometimes) – they are also quietly reconfiguring power, inequality, and intimacy in everyday family life. (Powered by @usociety.bsky.social data)

📰 Read the @ucl.ac.uk | @ioe.bsky.social press release here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...

Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in

🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with @yueqiansoc.bsky.social just out in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Professor Imogen Tyler elected as next BSA Vice President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association We are pleased to announce that BSA members have elected Professor Imogen Tyler as our next Vice President. Imogen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at...

Wonderful news that my great friend @imogentyler.bsky.social is elected Vice President of the @britsoci.bsky.social - having worked closely with Imogen for years, I cannot speak highly enough of what a truly caring, visionary, and inspiring leader Imogen is! ❤️🥰

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Professor Les Back takes up role of BSA President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association We are delighted to confirm that Professor Les Back has taken up the role of BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Many members will know Les’s work and his...

Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉
es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-le...

🚨 Our @sriucl.bsky.social 2026 Open Days are landing next week!

⭐️ Feb 4, Wednesday, 12:00-13:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Sociology

⭐️ Feb 5, Thursday, 13:00-14:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Social Policy and in Social Research Methods

➡️ Sign up here and join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/graduate...

Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE.

Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.

New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology

As well as being our 10th anniversary, 2025 was a huge year for our department's continued commitment to research, policy and social change. Read just a little bit of what we got up to in SRI's first ever Impact Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/sites/io...

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Huge thanks to the editors and reviewers for all constructive comments along the way. Read the insightful editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Editorial: (the paper) 'set[s] directions on timely organizational phenomena' and 'serves as an example for the kind of critical, multidisciplinary dialogue that Human Relations has long championed: one that connects organizational processes to societal structures of power and inequality.' ❤️

In the paper, we review lit across CS/DS, Social Sciences, Law, and HRM, bringing Acker's 'inequality regimes' into the digital age (algorithm-mediated inequality regimes) & developing 'chain of knowledge' and 'chain of responsibility' for understanding and regulating the use of AI in orgs.

Problematizing the role of artificial intelligence in hiring and organizational inequalities: A multidisciplinary review - Karen D Hughes, Alla Konnikov, Nicole Denier, Yang Hu, 2025 What are the implications of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment and hiring for organizational inequalities? While advocates suggest ...

🚨What's the role of AI in hiring & organisational inequalities? How does an interdisciplinary view matter?

Read our new paper (Karen Hughes, Alla Konnikov & @ndenier.bsky.social) in inaugural Human Relations review SI @tavinstitute.org: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Editorial: (the paper) 'set[s] directions on timely organizational phenomena' and 'serves as an example for the kind of critical, multidisciplinary dialogue that Human Relations has long championed: one that connects organizational processes to societal structures of power and inequality.' ❤️

In the paper, we review lit across CS/DS, Social Sciences, Law, and HRM, bringing Acker's 'inequality regimes' into the digital age (algorithm-mediated inequality regimes) & developing 'chain of knowledge' and 'chain of responsibility' for understanding and regulating the use of AI in orgs.

🤓 Read the whole SI 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South': www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Huge thanks to all authors – we learnt so much from all the papers, and the editorial process has been a wonderful journey of global knowledge co-production for us all 🎉 🫶

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