Kaidong Yu

Dr Kaidong Yu is a Research Associate at the Centre for Decent Work in Sheffield University Management School, working for the ESRC project The Transitions of Young Workers in the UK Labour Market: Consequences for Careers, Earnings, Health and Wellbeing. Prior to his role in Sheffield, Kaidong was a Module Convenor in the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester (2023-24), where he completed his PhD in 2023. His PhD project is on Working-class Experiences of Education and Social Mobility across Generations. His research interests include youth transitions, inequalities of class, gender and ethnicity, social mobility and life course/history methods. His work focuses on how historical change in education and labour markets affects the varied ways in which inequalities are perceived, understood and experienced.