Dr Guangyu Zhang
Research Fellow
Rm 397, Social Sciences North Building
Ph: +61 (08) 8201 5287
Fax: + 61 (08) 8276 9060
Email:
guangyu.zhang@flinders.edu.au
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Qualifications
Bachelor of Law – Peking University, 1990
Master of Science in Sociology – Oxford University, 2000
PhD in Demography – Australian National University, 2004
Expertise & Consultancies
Guangyu joined NILS in March 2007 as a Research Fellow of the Australian Health Inequities Program (AHIP). AHIP is a NHMRC funded capacity-building project addressing social and economic determinants of health in Australia, and involves a multidisciplinary team from Flinders University and University of Melbourne (http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/PublicHealth/AHIP.htm). Guangyu has been with Flinders since July 2005 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health. Before this, he worked as a Research Assistant (2002-4) to demographer Prof Jack Caldwell at ANU for a project on world fertility transition.
In NILS, Guangyu is working on the NHMRC newly funded $1 million project ‘Changing patterns of work: impacts on physical & mental health: The meditating role of resiliency & social capital’ (2007-11). His work focuses on statistical modeling of the relationship between forms of employment and health primarily using the first national representative panel survey in Australia (HILDA).
Guangyu has been trained as a demographer, in particular in marriage and fertility analysis, and population projection. His expertise is in data analysis of large scale surveys, both cross-sectional and longitudinal, drawing on both his academic training in Oxford and ANU, and his extensive work experience in the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China. |
Research Interests:
Employment status and health
Demography of China
Data quality issues
Key & Recent Publications
Peer-reviewed Journals
Fran, B., Ziersch, A., Zhang, G. and Osborne, K. “Neighbourhoods and Health: what elements of social capital account for neighbour differences?” Health and Place (under review)
Zhang, G. and Z. Zhao. 2006. ‘Re-examining China's fertility puzzle: Data collection and quality over the last two decades’. Population and Development Review 32 (2): 293-321. For abstract please see: http://www.popcouncil.org/publications/pdr/vol32_2.html
Zhang, G. and X. Yuan. 2004. ‘Rethinking the evaluation of underreporting of births and the fertility estimate in the 1990s?’ Population Research 28 (2): 29-36 [in Chinese].
Book Chapters
Baum, F., Ziersch, A., Zhang, G., Putland, C., Palmer, C., MacDougall, C., O'Dwyer, L., and Coveney, J. 2007. People and Places: Urban Locational Disadvantage, Social Capital and Health. Flinders University Press.
Zhang, G. and B. Gu. 2007. ‘Recent changes in marriage patterns’ (p124-39). In Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century (eds by Zhao, Z. and F. Guo), Oxford University Press.
Duncan R., Booth. H., Zhang, G., Rao, M., and Taomia, F. 2006. ‘The young and the restless: The challenge of population growth.’ in Expanding Job Opportunities for Pacific Islanders through Labour Mobility at Home and Away, The World Bank.
Book Review
Zhang, G. 2008. Book review of Poston, Dudley Jr. et al. Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China, London and New York: Routledge. Studies in Family Planning 39 (1).
Project Reports
Beer, A., Baum, F., Thomas, H., Lowry, D., Cutler, C., Zhang, G. , Jolley, G., Ziersch, A., Verity, F., MacDougall, C., and Newman, L. 2006. An Evaluation of the Impact of Retrenchment at Mitsubishi Focusing on Affected Workers, Their Families and Communities: Implications for Human Services Policies and Practices. Flinders University.
Conference Papers
Baum, F., Zhang, G., Ziersch, A., Jolley, G., and L. O'Dwyer. 2006. ‘Redundancy and mental health: Preliminary findings from a study of workers from an Adelaide automotive manufacturing plant?’ Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Public Health Association of Australia, Sydney, 25-7 September.
Zhang, G. and Zhao, Z. 2005. ‘Searching the answer for the fertility puzzle in China: Data collection and data use in the last two decades?’ Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Philadelphia. 31 March-2 April.
Zhang, G. 2004. ‘Very low fertility in China in the 1990s: An illusion arising from underreporting of births?’ Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Boston. 1-3 April.
Professional Associations
Australian Population Association (APA )
Population Association of America (PAA ) |
