SCCEI Young Researcher Workshop Series
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Young Researcher Workshops
About the Workshops
Our Young Researcher Workshops offer emerging China scholars an opportunity to engage directly with interdisciplinary faculty and peers from across campus to discuss and receive feedback on their research. Each workshop features one or several PhD students presenting their latest empirical findings on issues related to China’s economy. Past topics have included college major selection as an obstacle to socioeconomic mobility, the effect of a cooling-off period on marriage outcomes, and factors contributing to government corruption. Faculty and senior scholars provide comments and feedback for improvement. This event series helps to build and strengthen Stanford’s community of young researchers working on China.
If you still have questions about what these workshops will look like, click through the questions on the left to learn more about the content and format of the series.
Anyone with research related to China’s economy and institutions, broadly defined, is welcome to apply to present. Priority for presentation slots will go to currently-enrolled Stanford PhD students, and students with SCCEI-funded research. Secondary consideration will go to visiting graduate students. If you are interested in presenting, please follow the link below to sign up.
The audience is typically made up of China-focused researchers from around campus - graduate students, visiting students and faculty from China, postdocs, and research scholars. We usually have several SCCEI faculty members in attendance as well to provide additional feedback.
We also ask that all presenters actively invite their faculty advisor(s) to attend their presentation.
We welcome presentations based on data driven research related to China’s economy, broadly defined.
Example topics from our research include:
- What are the effects of upstream deforestation on Chinese communities living downstream?
- What is the long-run impact of a parenting intervention on children’s schooling?
- What has been the impact of the one-child policy on China’s economy?
We expect all presentations to have a Methodology section that clearly defines the data source(s) and collection methodology.
The workshop audience is multi-disciplinary, so while including a strong motivation for your research is important, please do not spend too much time on situating your work in field-specific theories.
While research at almost any stage is welcome, we ask all presentations clearly define:
- Your research question
- Your primary outcome variables
- Your study hypothesis
- Where, when, and how your data were collected
Please also include a summary table showing sample size and key sample characteristics.
We will send out timely reminders before each workshop to everyone on our mailing list. Be sure to sign up to receive all announcements and calendar invites. You can also view all upcoming workshops for the quarter on our events page.
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