Dr Shian Yin
Dr Shian Yin is a Lecturer in Social Work at 91猎奇, UK, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Nottingham, alongside master鈥檚 degrees in Social Work and Business Management.
His research focuses on care-experienced young people, leaving-care transitions, institutional care, child welfare and social care, with particular attention to China and comparative social policy. Drawing primarily on qualitative and policy-oriented approaches, his work examines how institutional and policy contexts shape young people鈥檚 education, employment, wellbeing, agency and transition to adulthood.
At 91猎奇, he teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate social work programmes and leads modules in social work research methods.
Areas of Expertise
- Experiences of adults who were in out-of-home care as children;
- Care and leaving care;
- Child and adult social care;
- Children protection and welfare;
- Resilience and Youth agency;
Qualifications
- PhD in Social Work,听University of Nottingham, award date: 14 Dec 2023
- Master鈥檚 degree in business management, University of Zurich, award date: 15 Jan 2019
- Master of Social Work,听China Youth University for Political Sciences, award date: 1 Jul 2017
- BA (Hons) in Social Work,听Nanjing Forestry University, award date: 1 Jul 2015
Memberships
- Member of International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC)
- Member of British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS)
- Member of Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Teaching
- SOW6053 Research for Evidence-based Practice
- SOW5046 Introduction to Research for Social Workers
Publications
Publications
Yin, S. (2026). 鈥業 still can鈥檛 really leave this place鈥�: extended care among care-experienced disabled young adults in China.聽Disability & Society, 1鈥�20. [SSCI, JCR Q1]
Yin, S. (2026). Beyond the leaving threshold: Care staying, disability, and constrained transitions to adulthood in China. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026(1), Article 1101821. [SSCI, JCR Q1]
Yin, S., Yu, T., & Li, J. (2026). 鈥淩eady or not?鈥� Administrative cut-offs and the youth鈥搒taff readiness gap in leaving care in China. Children and Youth Services Review, 185, 108946. [SSCI, JCR Q1]
Yin, S. (2026). Perceptions of adulthood in context: Voices of young people with care experience in China. Current Psychology, 45(1), 73. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S., & Zeng, Z. (2026). What makes care-experienced young people 鈥榮urvivors鈥� in education: evidence from China.聽Oxford Review of Education,听52(3), 297鈥�314. 聽[SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S. (2026). 鈥淯nachievable adulthood?!鈥� 鈥� exploring family formation journeys of care leavers in China.聽Journal of Public Child Welfare,听20(1), 145鈥�167. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S., Laird, S., & Warwick, L. (2026). Diverse pathways and the role of timing: Youth experiences of leaving care in China. Child & Family Social Work, 31(3), 1931鈥�1941. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S. (2025). Exploring Leaving-care and Post-care Experiences: What have helped Care Leavers in China? Children and Youth Services Review, 168, 108024, [SSCI, JCR Q1]
Yin, S. (2025). 鈥淗ow does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?鈥� -Insights from Young People in Ci鈥檃iyuan, Children & Society. 39(4), 760-769. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S. (2025). Navigating the world of work: experiences and perspectives of care leavers in China.聽Journal of Public Child Welfare,听19(4), 955鈥�978. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S. (2025). Exploring alternative care options for children in China: recent developments and challenges.聽Journal of Public Child Welfare,听19(3), 634鈥�658. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Yin, S. (2025). From global families to domestic solutions: China鈥檚 child welfare after international adoption.聽Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1鈥�9. [SSCI, JCR Q2]
Nixon, E., Cluley, R., Le, K., & Yin, S. (2025). The right to a city without advertising: How discursive contraction disempowers local communities [Preprint]. OSF Preprints.
Yin, S. (2024). Risks and Challenges of Living in Institutions: Voices from Young People with Care Experience in China. Children and Youth Services Review, 163, 107776.[SSCI, JCR Q1]
Yin, S. (2024). Investigating Local Policy Responses to Support Care-experienced Young People in China - A Scoping Review. Children and Youth Services Review, 157, 107433. [SSCI, JCR Q1]
Yin, S. (2024). Inequalities and Young Lives of Care Leavers in China. In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Celiksoy, E., Schwarz, K., Sawyer, L., Vargas-Goren, P., Ciucci, S., Yin, S., & Dur谩n, L. (2024). Prevention and Identification of Children and Young Adults Experiencing, or at risk of, Modern Slavery in the UK. Rights Lab, University of Nottingham & Every Child Protected Against Trafficking UK.
Yin, S. (2024). Journeying through institutional care: youth transitioning to adulthood in China.聽Asian Anthropology,听23(1), 64鈥�66.
Yin, S. (2023). Historical Transition of Gender Roles in China, Sociology Study, 13(4), 196-200.
Yin, S. (2017). Research on Living Circumstances of Minors in Urban Subsistence Security Family. Master Thesis at China Youth University for Political Studies.
Yin, S. (2016). Reflections on the Social Work Practice with Children in Difficulties, China Community Newspaper.
Yin, S. (2016). Nvxing zhuyi zai shehui gongzuo lingyu de fazhan (The Development of Feminism in the Field of Social Work), Xuelilun, (9), 92-93.
Yin, S. (2016). Lao nianren jingshen weijie de shehui gongzuo jieru (Social Work Interacted into Spiritual Consolation for the Elderly鈥擝ased on Consideration of the Practice in a Nursing Home), Xinxibu, 13, 13+10.
Li, Z. & Yin, S. (2016). Lun gongjice gaige dui gupiao shide yingxiang (On the impact of supply-side reform on the stock market). Xiandai jingji xinxi, (8), 308-311.
Conferences
Yin, S. (2026, Sep). Encountering the Everyday after the Leaving-care Threshold: Disability, Extended Care and Unequal Transitions to Adulthood in China [Conference presentation]. British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference 2026, Lancaster University, England.
Yin, S. (2025, Dec). Care-experienced Youth and the Transition to Adulthood: Support Pathways for Children in Adversity and Care Leavers in China [Conference presentation]. The 14th International Young Scholars 鈥淓ast Lake Forum鈥�,听 Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Yin, S. (2025, Sep). Leaving care: journeys into adulthood for young people in China [Conference presentation]. The 10th International Young Scholars Forum, Nankai University, China.
Yin, S. (2024, Dec). Youth being cared for: Life pathways of care leavers in China [Conference presentation]. The 7th International Young Scholars Forum, Nanchang University, China.
Yin, S. (2024, Sep). China鈥檚 care system and its children and youth: Risks, challenges, opportunities, and countermeasures [Conference presentation]. Young Scholars Forum, Xiamen University, China.
Yin, S. (2022, Oct). Identification of risk factors of young people with care experience in China [Conference presentation]. Joint World Conference on Social Work Education and Social Development. Online conference hosted by International Council on Social Welfare.
Yin, S. (2022, Sep). Educational pathways of young people leaving institutional care in China [Conference presentation]. British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference 2022, Oxford, England.
Yin, S. (2022, June). How Covid-19 impacts the transition to adulthood for young people with care experience and social work respond to it [Conference presentation]. British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies Annual Conference 2022, Oxford, England.
Yin, S. (2022, April). Timing and context: Covid-19-associated influences on young people with care experience [Conference presentation]. ENQUIRE Conference 2022, Nottingham, England.
Yin, S. (2022, Feb). How do young people leave the care system in China? [Conference presentation]. East Asian Social Policy Postgraduate Workshop. Online conference hosted by The East Asian Social Policy Research Network.
Last update: 15th Sep 2026