Professor Jane Duckett

  • Professor - Edward Caird Chair of Politics (Political & International Studies)

telephone: +44 (0)141 330 2871
email: Jane.Duckett@glasgow.ac.uk

R1202 Level 12, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350

Biography

Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (2016), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2019), and the Academy of Social Sciences (2019). She is also a Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. From 2014–2017 she was President of the British Association for Chinese Studies.

Prof Duckett's early research on the Chinese state under market reform included a book-length study, The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge, 1998). Since then, her research has been concerned with Chinese public policy. She has argued through studies of social welfare, poverty, unemployment and health policies, that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences made them central to the Chinese state’s post-Mao marketising project. Her monograph, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge, hdbk 2011; pbk 2013) drew on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision between the 1980s and 2003. She co-edited (with Beatriz Carrillo), China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (Routledge, 2011), a book that investigated China’s evolving social welfare provision. She has also published papers on the Chinese media's reporting of health reform, on public participation in policymaking in China, on how health care provision contributes to the Chinese Communist Party regime's legitimacy and on the influence of international ideas on domestic Chinese policy making

Her most recent project, 'COVID-19: Understanding the Chinese Government's Containment Measures and their Societal Impacts,' was funded by the UK's National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council. Based on that project, she published an article (written together with Meixuan Chen and William Wang) on China's handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic, in The Conversation on 10 May, 2022. She is currently researching the social policy implications of the Chinese Communist Party's 'common prosperity' agenda. 

Prof Duckett studied at Fudan University in Shanghai (1984–5 and 1987–8) and at Nankai University in Tianjin (1992–3). In the late 1980s she worked in the Shanghai office of the American law firm, Paul Weiss. She has worked in China as a policy and social development consultant on a number of international aid projects. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research, The Leverhulme Trust, British Council, British Academy, and the European Commission.

 

Able to comment for the media on

  • Chinese politics and society, especially health, poverty and inequality.
  • China's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Chinese social policy, including 'common prosperity'.

 

Research contribution and service (University of Glasgow)

  • Director, Scottish Centre for China Research (2008–).
  • Research convener and REF Champion (2018–2022).
  • International Dean (East Asia) for the University of Glasgow (2014–18).
  • Director, University of Glasgow Confucius Institute (2011-2015).
  • Dean for Research, Faculty of Social Sciences (2010).

Research contribution and service (external/international)

 

Research interests

Prof Duckett's research interests are in contemporary Chinese politics, particularly the redistributive consequences of China's health and social policies, and in policy making in this authoritarian political system. 

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2024

Huang, X. and Duckett, J. (2024) China’s health care system and policies. In: Powell, M., Agartan, T. I. and Béland, D. (eds.) Research Handbook on Health Care Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 307-326. ISBN 9781800887558 (doi: 10.4337/9781800887565.00022)

2023

Wang, H. and Duckett, J. (2023) Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems: Do institutions matter? Review of Policy Research, (doi: 10.1111/ropr.12582) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Duckett, J. and Munro, N. (2022) Authoritarian regime legitimacy and health care provision: survey evidence from contemporary China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 375-409. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626894) (PMID:34847220)

Lv, A., Luo, T. and Duckett, J. (2022) Centralization vs decentralization in Covid-19 responses: lessons from China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 411-427. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626908) (PMID:34847219)

2020

Duckett, J. (2020) Neoliberalism, authoritarian politics and social policy in China. Development and Change, 51(2), pp. 523-539. (doi: 10.1111/dech.12568)

2019

Duckett, J. (2019) International influences on policy making in China: network authoritarianism from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao. China Quarterly, 237(1), pp. 15-37. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001212)

Howell, J. and Duckett, J. (2019) Reassessing the Hu—Wen era: a golden age for social policy. China Quarterly, 237, pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001200)

2018

Stepan, M. and Duckett, J. (Eds.) (2018) Serve the People: Innovation and IT in China‘s Social Development Agenda. Series: MERICS Papers on China. Mercator Institute for China Studies: Berlin.

2017

Duckett, J. and Wang, G. (2017) Why do authoritarian regimes provide public goods? Policy communities, external shocks and ideas in China’s rural social policy making. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(1), pp. 92-109. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1274379)

Manor, J. and Duckett, J. (2017) The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 303-327. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327926)

Tillin, L. and Duckett, J. (2017) The politics of social policy: welfare expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in comparative perspective. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 253-277. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327925)

2016

Duckett, J. , Hunt, K. , Munro, N. and Sutton, M. (2016) Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China? Health Policy and Planning, 31(8), pp. 1001-1009. (doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw024) (PMID:27117483) (PMCID:PMC5013779)

Munro, N. and Duckett, J. (2016) Explaining public satisfaction with health care systems: findings from a nationwide survey in China. Health Expectations, 19(3), pp. 654-666. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12429) (PMID:26595456) (PMCID:PMC4991297)

2015

Duckett, J. and Wang, G. (2015) Poverty and inequality. In: deLisle, J. and Goldstein, A. (eds.) China's Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 25-41. ISBN 9780812223125

Wang, G. and Duckett, J. (2015) Welfare and social security. In: Goodman, D.S.G. (ed.) Handbook of Politics in China. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 238-250. ISBN 9781782544364

2013

Duckett, J. and Langer, A.I. (2013) Populism versus neo-liberalism: diversity and ideology in the Chinese media's reporting of health system reform. Modern China, 39(6), pp. 653-680. (doi: 10.1177/0097700413492602)

Duckett, J. (2013) Health and social policy. In: Ogden, C. (ed.) Handbook of China’s Governance and Domestic Politics. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 67-77. ISBN 9781857436365

Duckett, J. and Wang, H. (2013) Extending political participation in China: new opportunities for citizens in the policy process. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 6(3), pp. 263-276. (doi: 10.1080/17516234.2013.850221)

2012

Duckett, J. (2012) China's leadership transition. Political Insight, 3(2), pp. 22-25. (doi: 10.1111/j.2041-9066.2012.00108.x)

Duckett, J. (2012) China's 21st-century welfare reforms. Local Economy, 27(5-6), pp. 645-650. (doi: 10.1177/0269094212444574)

2011

Duckett, J. (2011) Challenging the economic reform paradigm: policy and politics in the early 1980s collapse of the rural cooperative medical system. China Quarterly, 205, pp. 80-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741010001402)

Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. (Eds.) (2011) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: China in transition. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415597319

Duckett, J. (2011) The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition (36). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415573894

Duckett, J. and Carrillo, B. (2011) China's changing welfare mix: introducing the local perspective. In: Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. (eds.) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition. Routledge: London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780415597319

2010

Duckett, J. (2010) Economic crisis and China’s 2009 health reform plan: rebuilding social protections for stability and growth? China Analysis: Studies in China’s Political Economy(80), pp. 1-14.

2009

Duckett, J. (2009) Medical care since 1949. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 569-574. ISBN 9780684315683

Duckett, J. (2009) Rural cooperative medical systems. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 294-295. ISBN 9780684315690

2008

Duckett, J. (2008) Will the Olympics change China for the better? Herald, 6th Ju, p. 17.

Duckett, J. and Hussain, A. (2008) Tackling unemployment in China: state capacity and governance issues. Pacific Review, 21(2), pp. 211-229. (doi: 10.1080/09512740801990279)

Duckett, J. (2008) Health NGOs: a second generation of policy advocates? China Review, 42(6), p. 16.

2007

Young, A.R., Duckett, J. and Graham, P. eds. (2007) Publishing in Politics: A Guide for New Researchers. Political Studies Association: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

Duckett, J. (2007) Local governance, health financing, and changing patterns of inequality in access to health care. In: Shue, V. and Wong, C. (eds.) Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. Series: Routledge contemporary China series (21). Routledge: London, pp. 46-68. ISBN 9780415422543

2006

Duckett, J. and Miller, W.L. (2006) The Open Economy and Its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521864060

2004

Duckett, J. (2004) State, collectivism and worker privilege: a study of urban health insurance reform. China Quarterly, 177, pp. 155-173.

2003

Duckett, J. (2003) China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 19(1), pp. 80-101. (doi: 10.1080/13523270300660006)

Duckett, J. (2003) Bureaucratic institutions and interests in the making of China's social policy. Public Administration Quarterly, 27(2), pp. 210-235.

Duckett, J. (2003) SARS: an opportunity for China’s health system. China Review, 2003(Summer), pp. 5-7.

2002

Duckett, J. (2002) State self-earned income and welfare provision in China. Provincial China, 7(1), pp. 1-19.

2001

Duckett, J. (2001) Political interests and the implementation of China's urban health insurance reform. Social Policy and Administration, 35(3), pp. 290-306. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9515.00234)

Duckett, J. (2001) Bureaucrats in business, Chinese-style: the lessons of market reform and state entrepreneurialism in the People's Republic of China. World Development, 29(1), pp. 23-37. (doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00083-8)

1998

Duckett, J. (1998) The Entrepreneurial State in China. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition, 5. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415187411

Duckett, J. (1998) Government and politics. In: Hook, B. (ed.) Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis. Series: Regional development in China (4). Oxford University Press: Hong Kong, pp. 31-55. ISBN 9780195861839

1997

Duckett, J. (1997) China’s social welfare reforms for a market economy. In: Hudson, C., Blecher, M.J. and Curry, J. (eds.) The China Handbook. Series: Regional handbooks of economic development: prospects into the 21st century. Fitzroy Dearborn: Chicago, IL, pp. 262-275. ISBN 9781884964886

1996

Duckett, J. (1996) China. In: Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Duckett, J., Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (eds.) Guidance Note on Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea, pp. 73-81. ISBN 0906250

Duckett, J. (1996) The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China. Pacific Review, 9(2), pp. 180-198. (doi: 10.1080/09512749608719178)

Duckett, J. (1996) Restructuring for an encroaching market: China’s experience of commercial system reform. In: Stanyer, J. and Hampsher-Monk, I. (eds.) Contemporary Political Studies, 1996. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom: Belfast, pp. 298-306. ISBN 9780952315056

Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Clarke, G., Brustinow, A., Duckett, J. , Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (1996) Guidance Note on Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea. ISBN 0906250

This list was generated on Sat Oct 12 16:47:54 2024 BST.
Number of items: 47.

Articles

Wang, H. and Duckett, J. (2023) Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems: Do institutions matter? Review of Policy Research, (doi: 10.1111/ropr.12582) (Early Online Publication)

Duckett, J. and Munro, N. (2022) Authoritarian regime legitimacy and health care provision: survey evidence from contemporary China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 375-409. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626894) (PMID:34847220)

Lv, A., Luo, T. and Duckett, J. (2022) Centralization vs decentralization in Covid-19 responses: lessons from China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 411-427. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626908) (PMID:34847219)

Duckett, J. (2020) Neoliberalism, authoritarian politics and social policy in China. Development and Change, 51(2), pp. 523-539. (doi: 10.1111/dech.12568)

Duckett, J. (2019) International influences on policy making in China: network authoritarianism from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao. China Quarterly, 237(1), pp. 15-37. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001212)

Howell, J. and Duckett, J. (2019) Reassessing the Hu—Wen era: a golden age for social policy. China Quarterly, 237, pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001200)

Duckett, J. and Wang, G. (2017) Why do authoritarian regimes provide public goods? Policy communities, external shocks and ideas in China’s rural social policy making. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(1), pp. 92-109. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1274379)

Manor, J. and Duckett, J. (2017) The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 303-327. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327926)

Tillin, L. and Duckett, J. (2017) The politics of social policy: welfare expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in comparative perspective. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 253-277. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327925)

Duckett, J. , Hunt, K. , Munro, N. and Sutton, M. (2016) Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China? Health Policy and Planning, 31(8), pp. 1001-1009. (doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw024) (PMID:27117483) (PMCID:PMC5013779)

Munro, N. and Duckett, J. (2016) Explaining public satisfaction with health care systems: findings from a nationwide survey in China. Health Expectations, 19(3), pp. 654-666. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12429) (PMID:26595456) (PMCID:PMC4991297)

Duckett, J. and Langer, A.I. (2013) Populism versus neo-liberalism: diversity and ideology in the Chinese media's reporting of health system reform. Modern China, 39(6), pp. 653-680. (doi: 10.1177/0097700413492602)

Duckett, J. and Wang, H. (2013) Extending political participation in China: new opportunities for citizens in the policy process. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 6(3), pp. 263-276. (doi: 10.1080/17516234.2013.850221)

Duckett, J. (2012) China's leadership transition. Political Insight, 3(2), pp. 22-25. (doi: 10.1111/j.2041-9066.2012.00108.x)

Duckett, J. (2012) China's 21st-century welfare reforms. Local Economy, 27(5-6), pp. 645-650. (doi: 10.1177/0269094212444574)

Duckett, J. (2011) Challenging the economic reform paradigm: policy and politics in the early 1980s collapse of the rural cooperative medical system. China Quarterly, 205, pp. 80-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741010001402)

Duckett, J. (2010) Economic crisis and China’s 2009 health reform plan: rebuilding social protections for stability and growth? China Analysis: Studies in China’s Political Economy(80), pp. 1-14.

Duckett, J. (2008) Will the Olympics change China for the better? Herald, 6th Ju, p. 17.

Duckett, J. and Hussain, A. (2008) Tackling unemployment in China: state capacity and governance issues. Pacific Review, 21(2), pp. 211-229. (doi: 10.1080/09512740801990279)

Duckett, J. (2008) Health NGOs: a second generation of policy advocates? China Review, 42(6), p. 16.

Duckett, J. (2004) State, collectivism and worker privilege: a study of urban health insurance reform. China Quarterly, 177, pp. 155-173.

Duckett, J. (2003) China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 19(1), pp. 80-101. (doi: 10.1080/13523270300660006)

Duckett, J. (2003) Bureaucratic institutions and interests in the making of China's social policy. Public Administration Quarterly, 27(2), pp. 210-235.

Duckett, J. (2003) SARS: an opportunity for China’s health system. China Review, 2003(Summer), pp. 5-7.

Duckett, J. (2002) State self-earned income and welfare provision in China. Provincial China, 7(1), pp. 1-19.

Duckett, J. (2001) Political interests and the implementation of China's urban health insurance reform. Social Policy and Administration, 35(3), pp. 290-306. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9515.00234)

Duckett, J. (2001) Bureaucrats in business, Chinese-style: the lessons of market reform and state entrepreneurialism in the People's Republic of China. World Development, 29(1), pp. 23-37. (doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00083-8)

Duckett, J. (1996) The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China. Pacific Review, 9(2), pp. 180-198. (doi: 10.1080/09512749608719178)

Books

Duckett, J. (2011) The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition (36). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415573894

Young, A.R., Duckett, J. and Graham, P. eds. (2007) Publishing in Politics: A Guide for New Researchers. Political Studies Association: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

Duckett, J. and Miller, W.L. (2006) The Open Economy and Its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521864060

Duckett, J. (1998) The Entrepreneurial State in China. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition, 5. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415187411

Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Clarke, G., Brustinow, A., Duckett, J. , Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (1996) Guidance Note on Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea. ISBN 0906250

Book Sections

Huang, X. and Duckett, J. (2024) China’s health care system and policies. In: Powell, M., Agartan, T. I. and Béland, D. (eds.) Research Handbook on Health Care Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 307-326. ISBN 9781800887558 (doi: 10.4337/9781800887565.00022)

Duckett, J. and Wang, G. (2015) Poverty and inequality. In: deLisle, J. and Goldstein, A. (eds.) China's Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 25-41. ISBN 9780812223125

Wang, G. and Duckett, J. (2015) Welfare and social security. In: Goodman, D.S.G. (ed.) Handbook of Politics in China. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 238-250. ISBN 9781782544364

Duckett, J. (2013) Health and social policy. In: Ogden, C. (ed.) Handbook of China’s Governance and Domestic Politics. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 67-77. ISBN 9781857436365

Duckett, J. and Carrillo, B. (2011) China's changing welfare mix: introducing the local perspective. In: Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. (eds.) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition. Routledge: London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780415597319

Duckett, J. (2009) Medical care since 1949. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 569-574. ISBN 9780684315683

Duckett, J. (2009) Rural cooperative medical systems. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 294-295. ISBN 9780684315690

Duckett, J. (2007) Local governance, health financing, and changing patterns of inequality in access to health care. In: Shue, V. and Wong, C. (eds.) Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. Series: Routledge contemporary China series (21). Routledge: London, pp. 46-68. ISBN 9780415422543

Duckett, J. (1998) Government and politics. In: Hook, B. (ed.) Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis. Series: Regional development in China (4). Oxford University Press: Hong Kong, pp. 31-55. ISBN 9780195861839

Duckett, J. (1997) China’s social welfare reforms for a market economy. In: Hudson, C., Blecher, M.J. and Curry, J. (eds.) The China Handbook. Series: Regional handbooks of economic development: prospects into the 21st century. Fitzroy Dearborn: Chicago, IL, pp. 262-275. ISBN 9781884964886

Duckett, J. (1996) China. In: Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Duckett, J., Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (eds.) Guidance Note on Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea, pp. 73-81. ISBN 0906250

Duckett, J. (1996) Restructuring for an encroaching market: China’s experience of commercial system reform. In: Stanyer, J. and Hampsher-Monk, I. (eds.) Contemporary Political Studies, 1996. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom: Belfast, pp. 298-306. ISBN 9780952315056

Edited Books

Stepan, M. and Duckett, J. (Eds.) (2018) Serve the People: Innovation and IT in China‘s Social Development Agenda. Series: MERICS Papers on China. Mercator Institute for China Studies: Berlin.

Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. (Eds.) (2011) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: China in transition. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415597319

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Grants

NIHR & MRC, 'Covid-19: Understanding Chinese Government Containment Measures and their Societal Impacts', PI, with Ana Langer, Yajun Bao, Yingru Li, Holly Snape, Ting Luo, Hua Wang, Bastian Struve, Weinan Wang, Aofei Lv, Meixuan Chen, Hairong Wang. £333,963, 2020–2022.

ESRC & NSFC, 'Remaking Urban Neighbourhoods in China', with Ya Ping Wang (PI), Keith Kintrea, Rebecca Madgin, Julie Miao, Jing Yao and a team at Nankai University led by Sun Tao. £1 million (FEC), 2016–18.

‘DirectElectionsChina’, European Commission. With L. Dong. £237,023, 2015-17. 

Expanding, Not Shrinking Social Programmes: The Politics of New Policies to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Brazil, India, China and South Africa’, ESRC. ES/J012629/1. With James Manor (PI), Jude Howell, Anthony Pereira and Louise Tillin. £327,597 (FEC), 2012-16.

‘Rising Powers: Unequal Powers, Authoritarian Powers, Unstable Powers?’, ESRC. With Stephen White (PI), Neil Munro, and Ian McAllister. £577,174 (FEC), 2012-2016.

Performance evaluations, trust and utilization of health care in China: understanding relationships between attitudes and health-related behaviour’, ESRC. ES/J011487/1. PI, with Co-Is Kate Hunt, Neil Munro, Matt Sutton. £508,678 (FEC), 2012-2015.

'Local "Participatory Democracy" in China' (with Zhu Guanglei and Sun Tao), Hangzhou Development Research Centre, £10,000, 2011–2012.

'Publishing in Chinese Studies', a graduate research student and early career research training workshop organised by the Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research Postgraduate Network, RCUK Roberts Funding, £1,950, 2010.

'Media Reporting of China's Health Reforms, 2005-09' (with Ana Langer), Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund and School of Social and Political Sciences, £2,800, 2009–2011.

Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research Postgraduate Network Launch Workshop, Roberts Fund and Universities China Committee, £2,400, 2008.

'NGOs and the making of health policy in China', Leverhulme Research Fellowship, £18,710, 2006–2007.

'The Lessons of UK Health Reform for China', Universities China Committee, £1,450, 2006–07.

'Public attitudes to openness in East Asia and East Europe' (with W. L. Miller), ESRC, £244,943, 2002–2005.

Chinese Studies Strategic Change Grant (Associate Director of Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow joint programme), Scottish Funding Council, £780,000 (of which £90,000 for own contribution), 2000–05.

'Health Systems Reform: Financing and Governance', British Academy, £5,400, 1999–2000.

'The Political Economy of Health Insurance Reform in China', European Commission EU-China Research Fellowship Fund, €3,250, 1999.

'China's Welfare Reforms: Health and Maternity Insurance System Restructuring', British Council. Academic Link with China Scheme, £21,000, 1997–2000.

'Economic Liberalisation and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Urban China', British Academy, £3,430, 1997.

'Economic Liberalisation and the Politics of Wefare Reform in Urban China', Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester, £3,290, 1996–7.

Scholarship for doctoral research fieldwork in China, British Council, 1992–3.

'Urban government under market reform', ESRC Doctoral studentship, 1991–4.

Supervision

PhD supervision

Jane is an experienced and enthusiastic supervisor. She welcomes enquiries and applications from students interested in doctoral research projects in contemporary Chinese government and public policy - e.g. health, education or anti-poverty policy. Applicants will need very good Chinese and English language skills, as well as training in contemporary Chinese studies or social science research. Jane's doctoral students benefit from a lively and welcoming research environment that includes the Scottish Centre for China Research.

 

  • Xie, Zihui
    The Politics of China’s Pension System Reform in Government and Public Institutions
  • Zheng, Congwei
    Study on the phenomenon of surrogacy among gay men in China

Jane's previous doctoral students have researched China’s village elections (Dr Wang Guohui, now Assistant Professor at Tianjin Normal University), environmental politics (Dr Tom Johnson, now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield), social policy (Dr Daniel Hammond, now a Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh), foreign economic policy in the ASEAN region (Dr Ariel Hui-min Ko, who went on to become a research associate at National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei), and UK SMEs doing business in China (Dr Carole Couper, now a Lecturer at Sheffield University), Chinese health politics (Dr Aofei Lv, who went on to a postdoctoral position at the University of Amsterdam), Chinese non-local chambers of commerce (Dr Hua Wang, now a Tutor at the University of Glasgow), and the Chinese media's reporting of domestic 'terrorist' incidents (Dr Bastian Struve, now a Tutor at the University of Glasgow).

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

  • Level 2B: Comparative Politics (China case study).
  • Chinese Politics (Honours).

Postgraduate teaching

  • Chinese Politics and Society (2023–4 only).

Research datasets

Jump to: 2015
Number of items: 1.

2015

Duckett, J. , Munro, N. , Sutton, M. A. and Hunt, K. (2015) China national health attitudes survey 2012-13. [Data Collection]

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Selected recent lectures and presentations

‘China’s 21st Century Socio-economic Development: Towards “Common Prosperity”?’ Annual lecture of the Scotland China Education Network, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 20 June 2024.

‘Social policies under Hu and Xi: from Segmentation to Stalled Integration’, Conference on ‘China: Fiscal Policies for the New Era’, East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore, 11–13 January 2023 (online).

'Pandemic Politics: What Have We Learned?' International Science Council, 21 November, 2021 (online).

'The Communist Party of China: internal reforms and legitimacy'. All-Party Parliamentary Group on China (Westminster, UK) on the CCP at 100, 15 June 2021 (online).

'COVID-19: The Chinese government's containment measures.' World Health Organisation’s Social Sciences Working Group, 21 July, 2020.

Keynote lecture at the Nordic Association for China Studies Annual Conference, University of Bergen, 13–14 June 2019.

'Explaining China's Social Welfare Development.' Keynote lecture at a conference on ‘Towards a new Chinese Welfare State – Perceptions of Distributive Justice in China’, Fafo, Oslo, 12–14 September 2018.

‘Explaining China’s 21st century social policies.’ Politics and International Relations seminar, University of Cambridge, 9 May 2018.

'China's Health System Challenges.' Guest Lecture at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, 27 March, 2018.

'International Influences on domestic Policy Making in China.’ Chun Tu-Hsueh Distinguished Lecture, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 26 January, 2018.