When going it all alone: Four essays on stigma, health and social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand

Events

IRASEC congratulates Dr. Herbary Zhang, an associated doctoral researcher of IRASEC, for the defense of his thesis obtained with the excellent feedback and the unanimous congratulations of the exam panel.

Herbary’s thesis entitled “When going it all alone: Four essays on stigma, health and social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand” is under the supervision of Dr. Isabella Ng from The Education University of Hong Kong. His thesis investigates a range of major sociological debates and policy studies related to gender, family, marriage, health, intersectionality and social exclusion. It aims to offer new scholarly insights by looking at single mothers as a category of multiple and overlapping oppressions, marginalization and exclusion, which intersect not only with gender, class and ethnicity but also with other significant categories, such as hometown neighborhood, religion and health conditions – a significant but under-researched subject in the Thai context. Moreover, his thesis also provides policy recommendations to the Thai government to improve its social policies for single mothers and achieve gender equality in Thailand.

The viva exam of his thesis took place on Friday, September 30, from 3 pm to 5 pm at The Education University of Hong Kong. The thesis examiners are Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot from the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, Dr. Atit Pongpanit from Naresuan University in Thailand, and Dr. Bidisha Banerjee from The Education University of Hong Kong.