Professor Rachel Anne Murphy

Rachel Murphy is Professor of Chinese Development and Society and Fellow of St Antony’s College. She obtained her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge in 1999. Her research sits at the intersections of area and development studies, sociology and anthropological demography. She examines social changes occurring in China because of industrialisation, urbanisation, demographic transition, migration, marketisation, education and state policies. Over the past twenty years she has conducted ethnography, interviews, documentary research and surveys in villages, townships, counties and cities, and has spent more than six years in China. 

https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/rachel-murphy

Professor Rachel Murphy is one of the network leads for the Labour Network.

This network will run from January 2025 to January 2027.