Sen Li
Research Fellow
University of St Andrews
Email: sen.li@st-andrews.ac.uk
Welcome to my website!
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Population Change – Connecting Generations (CPC-CG), University of St Andrews, where I am working on the Connecting Generations Across Geography project with Prof. Hill Kulu and Dr Urška Demšar. I am also a visiting researcher at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA). My work primarily employs quantitative methods, including spatial and econometric analysis.
Research interests:
Population migration
Urban and regional development
Family demography and geography
Education:
2020 - 2024, PhD in Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2024.01 - 2024.05, Ernst Mach Visiting Fellow at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems
2017 - 2020: MPhil in Demography, Fudan University
2013 - 2017: BSc in Economics, Ocean University of China
September 2026: I am pleased to share that my article, Social Patterning and Spatial Variation in Intergenerational Geographic Proximity in the United Kingdom, has been published in Population, Space and Place (https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70373).
October 2025: I am pleased to share that my article, Industrial Structure Rationalisation, Upgrading, and the Geography of Intercity Migration in China, has been published in Population, Space and Place (https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70113).