Research Fellow at the University of Southampton
Gender and Generations Survey (GGS), under Centre for Population Change (CPC), Department of Social Statistics and Demography
Quantitative researcher. Malaysian. her/she.
I am interested in the relationships between youth, time allocation, skills development and wellbeing
My thesis examines the relationships between young people’s choices and their outcomes. In particular, I examine how young people’s time allocation plays a role in their skills development and wellbeing. I explore these relationships globally, as challenges faced by young people are similar all over the world and gendered inequalities are pervasive, albeit nuanced differently. Be it having to work for your family business as a child, to the decision whether to work while studying at university, young people face a cost-benefit decision at an early age. Through my research, I aim to understand how we can better shape discourse around advice and policy we target to young people.
View my work
- Chang, G. (2023). How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control? Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol. 83, 100764. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100764
- Chang, G. (2022). How is Adolescents’ Time Allocation Associated with their Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy? Evidence from Four Developing Countries, The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 48 (11). pp 2237 – 2262. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2022.2075735
- Chang, G., Favara, M., and Novella, R. (2022). The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India. Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 44, 101089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101089
- Ongoing PhD chapter: Is more screen time bad for adolescent wellbeing? Using UK time use diaries of 14-year-olds.
Work Experience
I have over five years of work experience on youth inequality and life chances, using large-scale longitudinal datasets. I have worked in a Malaysian think-tank group, at Young Lives Oxford, and am currently working at the University of Southampton on the UK Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). Currently working on survey methods research practice in online surveys.
Find my CV here
2022 – present
Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, working on the UK Gender and Generations Survey under Centre for Population Change
Main responsibility in examining the effectiveness of survey incentives.
2018 – 2022
PhD Candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
My research is funded by the LSE PhD Studentship.
2020 – 2021
Research Consultant with organizations such as International Labor Organization (ILO).
2016 – 2020 (5 years)
Research Analyst at Young Lives, UK
Young Lives is a longitudinal research project that focuses on child poverty, affiliated to the University of Oxford.
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