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Siqi Han is an assistant professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also associated with CUHK’s computational social science cluster. Before joining CUHK she was a postdoctoral research scholar on the Measuring the Liberal Arts project at INCITE, Columbia University. She received her PhD in Sociology from The Ohio State University.
Her work mainly focuses on knowledge structure in higher education, school-to-work transition, and labor market skill returns. She addresses her research questions using both surveys and unstructured textual data with computationally intensive quantitative methods, including chatGPT-assisted data collection and processing. These projects appeared in PNAS, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science Research, European Sociological Review, Sociological Perspectives, Demographic Research, Socius, and other academic journals.
Siqi is open to working with prospective graduate students who are interested in social stratification broadly defined. Expertise in statistics and/or programming is a plus. A few ongoing projects of hers include:
- STEM education and STEM career
- Economic returns to complex skill portfolios
- Textual data in higher education
Please visit her personal website for more updated information.
- Social Stratification
- Science, Technology, and Society
- Computational Social Science
| Year | Title of the Grant | Project Title |
| 2024-2027 | Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme | Principle Investigator, “Non-Specialized Skill Sets or Low-Status Credentials? Employer-Perceived Worker Skills and Horizontal Stratification in China and the U.S.” |
| 2024 | UGC Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education 2023-26 ( Co-PI: Kent Lee) | Principle Investigator, “Developing a Gender ‘Conscious’ AI-assisted Chatbot for Learning Social Statistics (Part I: Elementary Level)” |
| 2024 | CUHK Direct Grant, Social Science Faculty | Principle Investigator, “Shaping Perceptions: The Interplay of Education Systems, Parental Influence, and Teacher Impact on Students’ Perceived Intelligence Across Countries” |
| Journals |
| Han, Siqi. “Bright, Busy, But Doesn’t Go Extra Mile” How Conscientiousness and Agreeableness Get Translated into Smaller Academic Gains for Asian High School Students.” Forthcoming in Asian Pacific Journal of Education. |
| Han, Siqi., Jack LaViolette, Chad Borkenhagen, William McAllister, and Peter Bearman. 2023. “Interdisciplinary College Curriculum and Its Labor Market Implications.” PNAS 120 (43) e2221915120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2221915120
Media Coverage: Times Higher Education |
| Han, Siqi. 2021. “Reproducing the Working Class? Incongruence between the Valuation of Social-Emotional Skills in School and in the Labor Market.” Sociological Perspectives 64(3):467-487. |
| Fan, Wen and Siqi Han. 2020. “Explaining Cross-national Variation in the Health Benefits of Tertiary Education: What are the Roles of the Skills Gap and the Earnings Gap?” European Sociological Review 36(6): 957-975. |
| Han, Siqi. 2016. “Staying in STEM or Changing Course: Are Natives and Immigrants Pursuing the Path of Least Resistance?” Social Science Research 58: 165-183. |
| Tumin, Dmitry, Siqi Han and Zhenchao Qian. 2015. “Estimates and Meanings of Marital Separation.” Journal of Marriage and Family 77: 313-323. |
- SOCI 5643 Doing Class in Everyday Life
- SOCI 3240 Social Studies of Science
- SOCI 3102 Social Networks and Social Capital
- SOCI 3002 Social Stratification