Yumeng Fan

Profile

Thesis supervisors

• Professor John Hudson
• Professor Neil Lunt

Thesis Title

Welfare Policymaking through Multidirectional Learning: The Case of China’s Pilot Program of Public Long-Term Care Insurance

Biography

Biography

My research interests centre around the policy process of health and social care reforms. I am particularly interested in the concepts of policy learning and experimentation, and how they influence health and social care policymaking in different ways. I am keen to explore both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked for three years as a research assistant in Hong Kong. I hold a BA in Greater China Studies from the Education University of Hong Kong and an MSc in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research

Research Topic

Policy learning dynamics in the process of health and social care policymaking

Research interests

• Health and social care
• Policy process
• Policy learning and experimentation
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methods

Publications

Publications

He, J., Fan, Y., & Su, R. (2023). Unpack the black box of pilot sampling in policy experimentation: a qualitative comparative analysis of China’s public hospital reform. Governance, 1-22.

He, J., Liu, P., Fan, Y., & Liu, H. (2023). Sending professors to the field: does faculty-practitioner exchange narrow the theory-practice gap in China’s MPA programs? Journal of Asian Public Policy, 16(1), 96-113.

He, J., Fan, Y., & Su, R. (2022). Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform. Policy Sciences, 55(4), 755-776.

Shek, D.T.L., Yu, L., Sun, R.C.F., & Fan, Y. (2022). Internet Addiction. In: D.W. Pfaff, N.D. Volkow, & J, Rubenstein (Eds.), Neuroscience in the 21st Century. Springer.