PhD. Social Policy

University of Nottingham, UK

MRes. Social Policy

University of Edinburgh, UK

MA. International Political Economy

University of Birmingham, UK

LLB. Law

China University of Political Science and Law, China

School of Government, Nanjing University, China

Nottingham Trent University, UK

University of British Columbia, Canada

Shandong University, China

University of Nottingham, UK

Academic Affiliations:

FHEA, Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK, 2017-present.

Li, Y. Internal Migration and Health in China: Choices, Constraints and Implications [M]. Palgrave Macmillan. (2023) 

Li, Y. (2025). Medical Social Work in Hospital Settings in China: Practice, Resource Dependence, and the Constraints to Development. British Journal of Social Work, 56 (4): 1588-1609.

Li, Y. (2023). China's Hospice Care in the Making: Roles, Practice and the Constraints of Development. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development. 34 (3): 195-214.

Li, Y. (2022). Social Care for Disabled Elderly Women in Urban China: The Roles of the Community. Social Science & Medicine. Volume 314, Dec 2022, 115473

Li, Y. (2022). Health and Social Constraints for Elderly Chinese Women Who Lose Their Only Child and Spouse: A Perspective of Resilience. Social Work in Public Health, 38 (2): 110-120

Li, Y. (2018). Who will care for the health of aging Chinese parents who lose their only child? A review of the constraints and implications. International Social Work, 61 (1):40-50.

Li, Y. (2014). China's misuse of antibiotics should be curbed. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2014;348: g1083.

Li, Y. (2013). Understanding Health Constraints among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China. Qualitative Health Research, 23 (11): 1459-1469.

Li, Y., & Wu, S. (2013). Health Care for Older Chinese People Who Lose Their Only Child. The Lancet, 381 (9866): 536.

Li, Y., & Wu, S. (2010). Migration and Health Constraints in China: A Social Strata Analysis. Journal of Contemporary China, 19 (64): 335-358.

Li, Y., & Wu, S. (2010). Social Networks and Health among Rural-urban Migrants in China: A Channel or a Constraint?. Health Promotion International，25 (3): 371-380.  

2019, 2020, National Student Survey (NSS) Full Satisfaction Result Award, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

2011, Best Publication Prize (the only First Prize). School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK.

2010, Chinese Government Scholarship - ‘Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Scholars Abroad’, Awarded in 2010 at Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the UK, London, UK.