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Dr. Yue Qian's primary goals in teaching are:
  • To engage students in critical thinking;
  • To inspire students to communicate clearly;
  • To stimulate students to think globally;
  • To promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.​

Dr. Yue Qian works closely with graduate students. In particular, she encourages students to write early and often, and motivates students to become knowledge producers. See below for a list of Dr. Qian's peer-reviewed publications with student co-authors.
  • Digital Ethnic Enclaves: Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters in Vancouver
  • Gendered Age Preferences for Potential Partners: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Online Daters in Shanghai
  • Child Marriage in Mainland China​
  • Mate Selection among Online Daters in Shanghai: Why Does Education Matter?
  • ​Separating Spheres: Cohort Differences in Gender Attitudes about Work and Family in China
  • The Gendered Pandemic: The Implications of COVID-19 for Work and Family
  • Gender, Parenthood, and Employment During COVID-19: An Immigrant-Native Born Comparison in Canada

Dr. Yue Qian has written self-help articles in Chinese to share her academic experiences

  • 一位“坚持走科研道路”女学者的自白 (how I defied expectations to become a feminist professor; English translation)   
  • 经历抑郁、暴食、狂躁症后,我是如何做一个快乐的博士的?(how to get through your PhD without going insane?)
  • 道阻且长,行则将至:我们的社科博士路 (Part A & B) (the long and winding road towards a PhD in social sciences)
  • 在加拿大当助理教授的第一年:如何管理时间、情绪和研究进度?(how to manage your time, emotion, and research progress as pre-tenure faculty members?; English translation)
  • 如何克服academic guilt? (how to overcome academic guilt?)
  • 如何在学术界保持心理健康?(how to maintain good mental health in academia?; English translation)
  • ​干货:如何成为高效阅读的“文献活字典”?(how to read scholarly literature efficiently?; English translation)
  • 如何高效、快乐地写博士论文 ?(how to write a dissertation efficiently and happily?; English translation)
  • “写写写”的心得分享:将每天写作变成生活习惯 (how to be a productive writer; English translation)
  • 改论文改到嗨是一种什么样的体验 (how to edit and revise papers; English translation)
  • ​找靠谱的合作者比找对象还难:How to collaborate?  (English translation)
  • 我从我的合作者身上学到的美好品质 (what I have learnt from my collaborators; English translation)
  • 和教授共事,哪些雷区不要踩?(do's and don'ts of working with professors; English translation)​
  • 这些学术简历大忌,你中了吗?(Things NOT to do on your CV; English translation)
  • 为什么我鼓励大家做public sociology? (Why is public sociology a good idea?)

Teaching/Learning Resources

Writing & Publishing
  • How to write a manuscript
  • Revising Drafts
  • Suggested Outline for Writing an Academic Article
  • Setting the Hook
  • Writing topic sentences and crafting paragraphs
  • The Introduction Formula
  • Literature reviews
  • How to respond to a "revise and resubmit" decision from a journal
  • How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice
  • Op-ed Writing: Tips and Tricks
  • A Guide to Writing a Senior Thesis in Sociology

Reading
  • ​Staying Afloat: Some Scattered Suggestions on Reading in College
  • Beyond the Abstract: Reading for Meaning in Academia
  • How to keep up with the scientific literature
  • Suggestions on qualitative research methods' articles and books for graduate students
  • Books for PhDs

Professional Development
  • ​grad school’s hidden curriculum
  • Over the Hoops and Through the Hurdles: Surviving the Graduate Program in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin
  •  Academic presentations
  • How to create a research poster
  • How to create an oral research presentation
  • Conference Talks
  • ​Navigating the Job Market: Real Advice (and Tough Love) from a Job Market Survivor
  • My Advice for PhD Students on the (altac) Job Market

Statistics
  • Resources for learning Stata
  • The Stata workflow guide
  • Coding Smartly: Automating Your Work, Stored Results, and Useful Commands in Programs
  • R for Stata Users​
  • Computational social science tutorials
  • Causal Inference with Panel Data
  • Data and model visualization
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