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Tianyao Qu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Campus:
IU Bloomington

Biography

Tianyao Qu received her Phd in Sociology from Cornell University. Her research areas are centered broadly in the areas of social networks, health and aging, intimacy and economy, time use, and gender. Within these areas, her current work uses quantitative, social network analysis, sequence analysis, and mixed methods to understand the structural dynamics of both physical and digitalized social relationships and their consequences on health and well-being across the life course and over time. Her research has been funded by the Cornell Center of Economy & Society, Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality, and Cornell Center for Social Sciences Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute.

Research Interests: Social Networks, Health, Aging and the Life Course, Intimacy and Economy, Time Use, Gender, Communication Technology