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Man-Yee Kan is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford's Department of Sociology and a Fellow of Linacre College. Her research focuses on gender inequalities, time use, family dynamics, and migration, particularly in East Asian, European, and Anglophone contexts. She leads the GenTime project, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-2026), examining gender inequality in time use across societies. Recent work analyzes Hong Kong migration to the UK, including pandemic impacts on migration decisions. She has held prestigious fellowships, including the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-2011) and Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship (2008-2013).
Her research interests span gender roles in families, welfare policies, and migration studies. Key projects include studying intergenerational support in East Asian families and the sociological impacts of caregiving labor. Teaching includes a gender sociology option course, and she supervises doctoral/master students on gender, family, and social inequality topics.
Publications span migration patterns, time-use dynamics, and gender disparities. She contributes to the Oxford Migration and Mobility Network and maintains an active research agenda on Hong Kong-UK migration and pandemic-related mobility changes.
