Xueting Liang is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Her doctoral project focuses on Tibetan youth migration in Western Sichuan under China’s Rural Revitalization policy. She is particularly interested in how Tibetan young people navigate opportunities and constraints between rural and urban settings, and how development policies are experienced in their everyday lives.
Before joining ISS, she worked as an urban-rural planner and later as a lecturer in China, gaining extensive experience in field-based research, local policy implementation and community engagement.
Xueting’s research interests include youth migration and rural-urban transitions; rural development and Rural Revitalization in China; Tibetan regions and ethnic minority mobility; urban-rural planning and local governance; and qualitative and mixed-methods fieldwork in social sciences.
