People Feature

Chenxi Li

DPhil in Sociology

 

Chenxi is a first-year doctoral student in Sociology. She holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Her research examines how structural inequalities are produced and reproduced across education, the labour market, and the family. Her thesis addresses three interconnected questions: how educational investments translate into labour market outcomes, how gender structures labour market inequality, and how socioeconomic and institutional contexts shape family demography.

She also works as a research assistant at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Inequality Team, focusing on applying computational methods, including Large Language Models, to inequality research.