Ging LAM 林景

Employment

  • 2019 ~ Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Nanjing University Of Finance & Economics, Nanjing

Education Background

  • 2016 ~ 2019, Ph.D. in Sociology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
  • 2013 ~ 2016, MA in Sociology, Wuhan University, Wuhan
    • 2015.9 ~ 2016.1, Exchange Student in Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taipei
  • 2009 ~ 2013, BA in Sociology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou

Teaching Experience

  • Fall 2019, Social Science Methodology [link]

Training Experience

  • 2018.7.9 ~ 20, Causal Inference and Causal Mediation Analysis, Peking University, Beijing
  • 2017.7.10 ~ 19, Artificial Society and Computational Sociology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
  • 2017.7.24 ~ 28, Advanced Quantitative Methodology, Peking University, Beijing
  • 2015.12.28 ~ 30, Spatial Analysis Workshop, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taipei
  • 2014.12.18 ~ 26, Applied Social Science Methodology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Shanghai University, Guangzhou
  • 2014.7.28 ~ 8.25, Research Methodology, Jilin University and ICPSR, Changchun

Publication

  • with Zuyun Liu, 2019, “Social Transformation and the Evolution of Poverty: A Comparative Study of Urban Microdata between Hong Kong and Mainland China”, Jiangsu Social Science(2)[download]
  • with Zuyun Liu, 2017, “Theoretical Interpretation of Social Movement and The Historical Evolution of Social Movement in Hong Kong”, Academic Research(11)[download]; reprinted in 2017, Zuyun Liu(eds.), Hong Kong and Macao Society: A Reader with Developmental Perspective, p163-180; reprinted in 2018, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Studies(selected high-level articles of Renmin University)(3)[download]
  • 2015, “Concepts and Theories of Social Governance”, in Wei Xu(eds.), Theories and Practices of Rural Community Goverance, Wuhan University Press[download]

Working Paper

  • 2019, “Placing Poverty in the Workplace: Employment Characteristics and Working Poor in Urban China”
  • 2018, “Flexible Employment, Low Quality Occupation, and the Working Poor in Hong Kong”
  • 2017, “Occupation Stratification, Living Stratification, and Multi-dimensional Poverty in China” [link]
  • 2017, “History of Nationality in China: A Critical Realism Approach”

Work in Progress

  • 2018, “Social Trends of Within-province Migrants and Cross-province Migrants in China”
  • 2018, “Occupation Mobility and Mix National Identity of Hong Kong”
  • 2018, “Flexible Employment and Income Inequality in China”

Research Fields

  • Flexible Employment, Industrial Relations, and Working Poverty
  • Sociological Methodology and Philosophy of Social Science
  • Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
  • Advanced Statistics and Computational Software

Honors & Awards

  • 2019, Henry Fok Scholarship for Ph.D. Student Innovation Research of Hong Kong and Macao, Sun Yat-sen University
  • 2018, Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University [link]
  • 2018, Lincoln Thesis Scholarship, Peking University - Lincoln Institute [link 1] [link 2]
  • 2014, Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Wuhan University [link]
  • 2013, Outstanding Student Scholarship, South China Agricultural University
  • 2012, Outstanding Student Scholarship, South China Agricultural University [link]
  • 2010, Outstanding Student Scholarship, South China Agricultural University

Programming Skills

  • Developed Stata Module: isco2isei08, isco88to08, isco08to88 (used to recode ISCO-88 into ISCO-08 and recode ISCO-08 into ISEI-08) [download]
  • Proficient: R, Stata, QGIS, UCNET, Markdown
  • Fluent: Python, LaTeX, Mplus, NetLogo, Julia, HTML5