Qiushi Feng

Feng Qiushi received his doctoral degree from Duke University and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is Deputy Head of the department, and Assistant Dean of Research Division of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) in NUS. He is Vice President of the Population Association of Singapore (PAS). His research fields are aging and health, population studies, and economic sociology. He has published extensively in these fields and is particularly interested in multidisciplinary research with various methods, such as regression-based statistics, simulation-based projection, experiment, as well as comparative/historical, and ethnographic approaches. He has been teaching social research methods and social statistics at undergrad and grad levels for more than two decades.

He is the Associate Editor of Asian Population Studies, Deputy Editor of International Journal of Population Studies, and also serves on the editorial boards of a few prestigious international journals and book series. His research has been supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE), and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC). He is currently leading a MOE Tier-2 project, Lifelong Education for Aging Productively (LEAP) in Singapore, and is the PI in charge of social determinants of health for SG70, a multidisciplinary project on aging launched by NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is going to lead another MOE Tier-2 project soon, Analyses and Projections of Households and Living Arrangements in Six ASEAN Countries (HOUSEHOLD-ASEAN).

Teaching Areas

Social Research Methods, Social Statistics, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Life Course and Aging

Research Interests

Aging and Health, Population Studies, Economic Sociology