Shu Hu

Dr Hu Shu

Senior Lecturer, Head, Sociology Programme

School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences

Educational Qualifications

  • 2015

    Ph.D., Sociology, National University of Singapore

  • 2010

    M.A., Social Security, Renmin University of China

  • 2008

    B.A., Human Resources Management, Renmin University of China

Academic and Professional Experience

  • 2022 - Current

    Senior Lecturer, Sociology Programme, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2018 - 2021

    Lecturer, Sociology Programme, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2016 - 2018

    Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute & Centre for Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore

  • 2015 - 2016

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Peer-reviewed Articles:

Hu, Shu, and Dhiman Das. 2024.
“Gender, Work, and Leisure in Old Age in China and India.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. doi: 10.1007/s10823-024-09497-7

Mu, Zheng, and Shu Hu. 2023.
“Unequal Childhoods in China: Parental Education and Children’s Time Use.” Journal of Community Psychology 51(2):695–723.
doi: 10.1002/jcop.22710.

Dommaraju, Premchand, and Shu Hu. 2023.
“Gavin Jones’ Scholarship on Divorce in Asia: Understanding Trends, Patterns, and Implications.” Asian Population Studies 0(0):1–7. doi: 10.1080/17441730.2023.2267225.

Hu, Shu, and Zheng Mu. 2021.
“Extended Gender Inequality? Intergenerational Coresidence and Division of Household Labor.” Social Science Research 93:102497. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102497.

Hu, Shu, and Zheng Mu. 2020.
“Some Time Is Better Spent than Other Time: Chinese Adolescents’ Time Use and Developmental Outcomes.” Child Indicators Research 13(5):1739–65. doi: 10.1007/s12187-020-09718-8.

Hu, Shu. 2019.
“‘It’s for Our Education’: Perception of Parental Migration and Resilience Among Left-behind Children in Rural China.” Social Indicators Research 145(2):641–61. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1725-y.

Hu, Shu, and Dhiman Das. 2019.
“Quality of Life among Older Adults in China and India: Does Productive Engagement Help?” Social Science & Medicine 229:144–53. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.06.028.

Hu, Shu, and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung. 2019.
“Education and Childrearing Decision-Making in East Asia.” Chinese Sociological Review 51(1):29–56. doi: 10.1080/21620555.2019.1571903.

Hu, Shu. 2018.
“Parents’ Migration and Adolescents’ Transition to High School in Rural China: The Role of Parental Divorce.” Journal of Family Issues 39(12):3324–59. doi: 10.1177/0192513x18778083.

Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean, and Shu Hu. 2016.
“Paradox in Marriage Values and Behavior in Contemporary China.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 2(3):447–76. doi: 10.1177/2057150X16659019.

Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean, and Shu Hu. 2013.
“Coming of Age in Times of Change The Transition to Adulthood in China.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 646(1):149–71.

Yang, Lixiong and Shu Hu. 2010.
"Study on Adjustment Mechanism of Urban Minimum Living Standards (城镇居民最低生活保障标准调整机制研究)", China Soft Science (中国软科学) (9): 33-46. (in Chinese)

Books, Book Chapters, and Working Papers:

Hu, Shu. 2021.
“Schools as De Facto Childcare Centers: Adolescents’ Lives and Educational Paths in Rural China.” Pp. 153–72 in Rural Education in China’s Social Transition, edited by P. A. Kong, E. Hannum, and G. A. Postiglione. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Hu, Shu, & Das, D. 2018.
Work in Old Age and Quality of Life: Gender Divide in China and India. Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 267, https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Publication/Detail/b2b1748b-77b4-4027-a531-ac5e8ba3da90

YEUNG, Wei-jun Jean and HU, Shu. 2018.
Family and Population Change in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Changes. London: Routledge

YEUNG, Wei-jun Jean and HU, Shu. 2018.
Continuity and Change in Singapore’s Population and Families. In: W.J.J. Yeung and S. Hu (Eds.) Family and Population Change in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Changes. London: Routledge

MU, Zheng and HU, Shu. 2018.
Origin and Transition of Singapore Families. In: W.J.J. Yeung and S. Hu (Eds.) Family and Population Change in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Changes. London: Routledge

HU, Shu 2014.
Pretesting. In: A.C. Michalos (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer Science and Business Media Dordrecht.

HU, Shu 2014.
Study population. In: A. C. Michalos (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer Science and Business Media Dordrecht.

YANG, Lixiong and HU, Shu. 2013.
Research on Rural Poverty Line in China (中国农村贫困线研究). Beijing: China Economic Publishing House (中国经济出版社) (in Chinese)

Book Review:

HU, Shu. 2019.
Sharon Ee Ling Quah, Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore. International Sociology, 34(2), 222–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580919831636b

  • Migration, Education, Gender, Marriage and Family, Social stratification and inequality
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