Congratulations to PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang for receiving the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Congress Student Merit Award!
The merit-based award recognizes and celebrates the academic excellence of graduate students who present their work at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canada’s largest gathering of academics. Each award is valued at $500 and aims to help offset the costs associated with attending the event.
Rose’s dissertation explores how overwork regimes and gendered labor expectations shape the health and life trajectories of Chinese white-collar workers. Drawing on 85 in-depth interviews, she examines how managerial control, societal norms, and family pressures intersect to produce both ambition and burnout.
Beyond her dissertation, Rose is also engaged in public-facing research as a contributor to the BC Atlas of Disaster—an interactive tool that visualizes the social impacts of extreme weather—and as a researcher on the Understanding Precarity in BC project, where she studies how employment precarity affects health and well-being.
