Guanyi Xu

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

PhD Student

gxu12@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave

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Guanyi Xu
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

From 2010 to 2014, I studied Law and got a Bacholar's degree in Ocean СŷÊÓƵ of China in Qingdao, China. I obtained Chinese Legal Professional Qualification Certificate in 2015. From 2017 to 2018, I joined the Department of Sociological Studies of СŷÊÓƵ to study Sociology and got a Master's degree. I have been doing my PhD research in Sociology in the same department from 2019 until now.

Qualifications
  • MA Sociology, СŷÊÓƵ;
  • LLB, Ocean СŷÊÓƵ of China.
Research interests

Research interests:

  • Personal relationships;
  • Friendship;
  • Intimacy;
  • Everyday life;
  • Qualitative research.

Thesis title: Roommate relationships in Chinese СŷÊÓƵ dormitories: students' life experience and perception.

This research focuses on Chinese college students' everyday negotiations and feelings of their interpersonal relationships in university dormitories and how these are associated to time and space.

Research group

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