Student conversation with Professor Carrie K. W. Li (University of Hong Kong & Johns Hopkins University)
Speaker
Prof. Carrie K. W. Li (University of Hong Kong & Johns Hopkins University)Date & time
Location
RSVP required. This is an in-person event for current U-M students.
Light breakfast will be provided.
Content Note: This event will include discussion of research on, and intervention development for, intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence.
During this informal breakfast career talk, Prof. Carrie K. W. Li will discuss her research career, bridging criminology, sociology, social work, psychology, nursing, and public health.
Dan Ellis (Managing Director, International Policy Center) will provide opening remarks, and Prof. William Axinn (International Hub) will moderate the discussion.
This event is co-sponsored by the International Hub at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), the Survey Research Center at ISR, and the Career Services office at the Ford School.
Speaker
Carrie K. W. Li, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong and an International Visiting Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
Dr. Li is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research bridges criminology, sociology, social work, psychology, nursing, and public health. She earned her PhD in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University, her MSc in Crime Science from University College London, and her BSc with Honours in Experimental Psychology from the University of Bristol.
Dr. Li's research has been supported by numerous competitive grants totaling more than USD 1.3 million. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Family Process, Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Family Violence, Violence Against Women, Victims & Offenders, Deviant Behavior, and Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion.
Moderator
William Axinn, PhD is the Ronald and Deborah Freedman Director of the International Hub at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR), a research professor at ISR, a professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and a professor of public policy (by courtesy) at the Ford School. Axinn also serves as co-director of both the Chitwan Valley Family Study and the World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Axinn is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests include: the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, and reproductive and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn's interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.
