Dr Kaidong Yu
Management School
Research Associate for Young Workers Transitions
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Management School
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Kaidong joined Sheffield University Management School in 2024 working with Professor Jason Heyes, Dr Edward Yates, Dr Mark Tomlinson, Professor Peter Wright and Dr Bert Van Landeghem on the ESRC project The Transitions of Young Workers in the UK Labour Market: Consequences for Careers, Earnings, Health and Wellbeing.
Prior to joining in Sheffield, Kaidong was a Module Convenor in the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester (2023-24), where he completed his PhD in 2023. His PhD project is on Working-class Experiences of Education and Social Mobility across Generations.
- Qualifications
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- PhD - University of Manchester
- MA Contemporary Sociology - University of Leicester
- BA Sociology - Central China Normal University
- Research interests
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Kaidong is interested in youth transitions, inequalities of class, gender and ethnicity, social mobility and life course/history methods. His publication profile is built upon the question of how absolute change in the opportunity structure affects the varied ways in which inequalities are perceived, understood and experienced.
Kaidong is currently a research associate on a project investigating the ability of younger workers living in the UK to make successful transitions in the labour market and the barriers that might prevent them from making progress in their careers. The project will also examine differences in the ability of younger workers to progress within the labour market and within their careers, comparing people who differ in respect of gender, race, ethnicity and disability and thereby enhancing understanding of diversity in labour market experiences and outcomes.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Negotiating the changing structure of opportunity: working-class students’ transitions to university across generations. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43(7), 1116-1134.
- Negotiating the changing structure of opportunity: working-class students’ transitions to university across generations. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43(7), 1116-1134.