Dr Liming Yao BSc, MSc, FHEA

Senior Lecturer

Summary

Upon completing my PhD in 2018, I took up the role of Lecturer in Real Estate at SHU. My teaching portfolio includes asset management, real estate economics, housing market analysis, and overseeing research projects. Additionally, I am engaged in research focused on housing affordability, the efficacy of housing policies, and the housing tenure decisions and return intention of rural migrants.

About

Liming is a Senior Lecturer at SHU. Her educational journey began with a BSc in Economics, followed by an MSc in Real Estate Investment and Finance. Deepening her expertise, Liming pursued a PhD, focusing on housing economics and housing affordability issues. Liming received the FHEA certificate in 2020.

Liming's teaching portfolio is a direct reflection of her educational background, covering modules such as asset and portfolio management, real estate investment and valuation, economics and market analysis, and research dissertations.

Liming's research interests are primarily centered on housing-related issues, with a particular focus on housing affordability, the efficiency of housing policies, and housing tenure choices. Liming's research area now is deeply focused on exploring the housing precarity issues faced by disadvantaged groups, such as rural migrants and individuals facing challenges in the job market.

Liming is currently supervising two PhD research projects on topics like Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in China and the delivery of local-level Electric Vehicle (EV) projects.

Teaching

School of Engineering and Built Environment

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Real Estate

BSc Real Estate;

BSc Real Estate (DA);

Msc Real Estate

Law and Economics for the Built Environment;

Asset and Portfolio Management;

Applied Research Methods and Dissertation;

Law, Economics and Finance;

Real Estate Investment and Valuation;

Economics and Market Analysis.

Research

Social and Economic Research Institute

Liming's present research focuses primarily on the challenges of housing affordability: exploring the factors that have made home ownership increasingly unaffordable, identifying barriers that prevent younger generations from accessing the housing ladder, and examining the efficiency of housing assistance policies in alleviating housing struggles. Liming's research area now is further extended to exploring the housing precarity issues faced by disadvantaged groups, such as rural migrants and individuals facing challenges in the job market. Another area of Liming's research interest lies in the attractiveness and resilience of cities, particularly in how they adapt and respond to the influx of rural to urban migrants, and the housing challenges faced by this demographic.

Publications

Journal articles

Deng, X., Chi, S., Yao, L., & Zou, J. (2024). FinTech and rural household entrepreneurship. Finance Research Letters, 68. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106026

Zou, J., Yao, L., Wang, B., Zhang, Y., & Deng, X. (2024). How does digital inclusive finance promote the journey of common prosperity in China? Cities, 150. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105083

Zou, J., Yao, L., Lan, X., & Deng, X. (2023). Promoting or inhibiting: The role of socio-economic integration on migrant entrepreneurship. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 2 (4), 432-458. http://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231216655

Book chapters

Yao, L. (2024). Housing Reform and Policy: an Overview of Housing Provident Fund in China. In Housing as a social good: an applied restatement of the concept. TBC

Presentations

Yao, L. (2024). To stay or to return: an investigation on how hosing difficulties influence migrants’ return intention. Presented at: AsRES-GCREC & AREUEA Joint Conference, Taiwan

Yao, L. (2024). To stay or to return: an investigation on how hosing difficulties influence migrants’ return intention. Presented at: ERES Annual Conference, Poland

Postgraduate supervision