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Xiaodong Lin is an Associate Professor in Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick, serving as Director of the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme (TRANSFORM) and Director of Graduate Studies for the School for Cross-faculty Studies. He previously held roles at the University of York and the University of Birmingham. Dr. Lin is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Editor-in-Chief of The Sociological Review, alongside editorial roles at Cambridge Journal of Education and Palgrave Macmillan.
His interdisciplinary research focuses on cultural landscapes of care, food systems, and masculinities in the context of migration and urbanization. Key projects include studies on food’s role in elder care, the double burden of malnutrition in China, and the negotiation of masculinities among rural-urban migrant men. He has secured funding from ESRC, BBSRC, and the British Academy.
- Research Themes: Care ethics, gender, ageing, kinship, migration, qualitative methods, and East Asian sociocultural dynamics.
- Recent Collaborations: Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Vietnamese nutrition surveys, and transnational food systems.
His awards include a Philip Abrams Memorial Prize nomination (2014) and an outstanding paper award (2019). He teaches modules on global food systems and care-ful sustainability, emphasizing decolonizing knowledge through Global South perspectives.
Dr. Lin chairs the Leverhulme TRANSFORM programme, fostering interdisciplinary research on sustainable development. He contributes to policy dialogues through his work on food, care, and migration, advocating for culturally grounded solutions to global challenges.
