Dr Jiachen Shi

Profile

Jiachen is a Lecturer in Management Consulting and Human Resource Management. She work in student eduction and responsible for module management and deliveries in BA/MA/MSc programmes, based in People, Work and Employment Department. She is also a member of Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) and conducting research in people, work and employment.

Jiachen is an alumni of the University of Leeds. She joined Leeds as a student in 2011 and has studied and worked here since then, with completing her MA in HRM and her PhD in Work and Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. She has started her academic career as a postgraduate resesarcher during her PhD from 2013 and started her roles for student education from 2015 before becoming a full time lecturer following her PhD completion in 2018.

Prior to her journey to Leeds, she graduated with BSc in HRM from University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China), and worked in the investment banking and finance industry.

Responsibilities

• Deputy Programme Director of MSc Management Consulting
• BA/MA/MSc teaching, dissertation supervisor and personal tutor
• CERIC Researcher

Research interests

Jiachen’s main research areas covercover strategic human resource management and regulations of employment, rhetoric and realities of HRM; labour migration in transitions; sustainable development goals and just transitions.

Jiachen has expertise and research experience in:

1. SHRM studies looking into the role of the State in shaping the approach to SHRM within organisations, exploring a arrange of external environmental forces to shape workers experience in labour market and the approach to HRM within organisations; external environmental forces that she has looked at include  labour law, economic institutions of labour market, public attitudes, cultural and social actors, climate change. Her studies also look into worker’s experience and labour response in transitions in China and in global perspective and comparative perspective; She also expertise in HRM reform; contextual performance, personalities, job satisfaction; Chinese approach to HRM and Chinese labour market; the changing nature of work and HRM in financial services sector, broadcasting industry.
2. Labour migration studies in transitions, with looking into changing regulatory system towarf migration at national and reginal levels in comparative perspective.
3. Sustanability, climate change and just transtion – international comparisons studies looking at concepts of Just Transitions, policies, initiatives and strategies, and investigating the factors influencing understanding of just transitions, and just transition debates in a variety of economic, institutional and climate policy framework.

Jiachen’s research interests also covers transition economies and platform economy, and social (in)equalities.

Current research projects

2022-2025: Co-I, HBS Funded Climate series: Just transitions towards net zero societies in 13 countries, PI: Prof Vera Trappmann

2020-2021: Co-I, WUN Funded COVID-19 and Migration Systems in Transition, PI: Prof Chris Forde

Qualifications

• PhD (2018) in Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds
• MA (2013) in Human Resource Management, University of Leeds
• BSc (2010) in Human Resource Management, University of International Business and Economics (China)

Professional memberships

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Associate Membership

Student education

The areas of Jiachen’s teaching experience covers HRM, management, work and organisations, business and society, economic institutions, gender and equality, people analytics, employment law, industrial relations, also on topics including labour migrations, future of work, gig economies, automation.

 UG modules

• Business and Society (Social Theory, Organisation Theory)
• Contemporary Human Resource Management
• Contemporary Industrial Relations
• Diversity Management
• Gender and Equality at Work
• Global Perspective at Work
• Economic Institutions (Labour)
• Introduction to Human Resource Management
• Management, Work and Organisations
• Strategic Human Resource Management
• HRM Controversies

 PG modules

• Diversity Management
• Employment Law
• Gender and Equality at Work
• Global Perspective at Work
• Research Methods and Practices for Consultants
• People Analytics
• HRM Dissertation
• Management Consultant Project

Publications:

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change