Chi Zhang
Me and my Nomi (糯米鸡), when we were both pretty young.
GitHub: lukezed
Email: chi.zhang.edu@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9535-6186
Feel free to contact me for whatever reason, by email or by opening an issue! Strictly speaking I am an education researcher, but I am interested in modelling real-world problems more broadly, in meta-science, and in some more niche questions in sociology. For example, I am especially interested in Weber’s social probabilism read through a Bourdieusian lens (Strand & Lizardo, 2022a; 2022b), which can reinterpret almost everything in a rather Bayesian way.
Some of my colleagues are curious about my coding background. To be honest, I only know R reasonably well and basic Python, and that’s it. But I don’t think the projects I have done beyond my “literacy” were done via vibe coding.11 As Matt Pocock puts it: “We don’t do vibe coding - this is a channel for real engineers solving real problems.”
Experience
- 2026–Present: Postdoctoral Researcher in Education, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University.
- 2021–2026: PhD in Education, University of Manchester.
- 2020–2021: MSc Research Methods with Education, University of Manchester.
- 2019–2020: MA in Mathematics and Pedagogy, The Education University of Hong Kong.
References
- Strand, M., & Lizardo, O. (2022a). Chance, orientation, and interpretation: Max Weber's neglected probabilism and the future of social theory. Sociological Theory, 40(2), 124–150. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751221084712
- Strand, M., & Lizardo, O. (2022b). For a probabilistic sociology: A history of concept formation with Pierre Bourdieu. Theory and Society, 51(3), 399–434. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-021-09452-2