Ying Liu, PhD'26

Ying Liu's research interests include public and nonprofit management, social equity, local governance, digital government, and accountability. Committed to mainstreaming gender issues in public and nonprofit administration, she is currently exploring topics such as women’s representation, gender-responsive budgeting, gender discrimination, gender and technology, and women’s nonprofit organizations. Her dissertation, Hidden Figures: Essays on Women’s Representation and Its Bureaucratic Outcomes examined the relationship between women’s representation and bureaucratic outcomes in four aspects: human resource practices, organizational performance and responsiveness, budgeting decision-making, and citizen-government interactions.

Education

• PhD: Rutgers University–Newark, School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) (2026)
• MPA: Wuhan University, China
• BS: Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China, Public Management
• BA: Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China, English Translation