Biography

Hsiu-yu is a fourth-year PhD student in Sociology at UCLA. She is broadly interested in demography, family, social networks, and health. Her previous work has examined changing fertility patterns in Taiwan and their implications for family configurations. Another stream of her research focuses on how childhood family experiences shape later-life fertility outcomes. Currently, she is working on a project investigating the relationship between individuals’ social networks and health outcomes.

Before joining UCLA Sociology, Hsiu-yu received her BA in Journalism and Sociology and her MA in Sociology from National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan.