Qiang Fu, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

Drink like a man? Modified Poisson analysis of adolescent binge drinking in the US, 1976-2022.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025 · senior author
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer.
Sociological methods & research · 2024 · senior author
Gone with the weed: incidents of adolescent marijuana use in the United States, 1976-2021.
Annals of epidemiology · 2023 · senior author

All 11 publications

Latest funding

One-Twentieth of Canada: Authoritarian-Racist Mythology and Socio-Political Realities of Chinese Canadians
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$37,510
How to build a nation for all nations? A mixed big-data approach to social integration of immigrants in Canada, 1970--2020
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$30,745
How to build a nation for all nations? A mixed big-data approach to social integration of immigrants in Canada, 1970--2020
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$64,245

All 3 grants and awards

11 publications.

01

Drink like a man? Modified Poisson analysis of adolescent binge drinking in the US, 1976-2022.

Gu J, Chen M, Yuan Y, Guo X, Zhou TY, Fu Q

Social science & medicine (1982)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117553 PMID: 39622124

02

The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer.

Guo X, Fu Q

Sociological methods & research2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/00491241221113877 PMID: 39119485

03

Gone with the weed: incidents of adolescent marijuana use in the United States, 1976-2021.

Gu J, Guo X, Liu X, Yuan Y, Zhu Y, Chen M, Zhou TY, Fu Q

Annals of epidemiology2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2023.10.002 PMID: 37839727

04

A manifesto for computational sociology: The Canadian perspective.

Fu Q, Gu J, Zeng ZA, Tindall D

Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie2022First author

DOI: 10.1111/cars.12379 PMID: 35445550

05

THE USES AND ABUSES OF AN AGE-PERIOD-COHORT METHOD: ON THE LINEAR ALGEBRA AND STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF INTRINSIC AND RELATED ESTIMATORS.

Fu Q, Guo X, Jeon SY, Reither EN, Zang E, Land KC

Mathematical foundations of computing2021First author

DOI: 10.3934/mfc.2021001 PMID: 34447928

06

Optimizing Count Responses in Surveys: A Machine-learning Approach.

Fu Q, Guo X, Land KC

Sociological methods & research2020First author

DOI: 10.1177/0049124117747302 PMID: 33840866

07

Communal space and depression: A structural-equation analysis of relational and psycho-spatial pathways.

Fu Q

Health & place2018First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.007 PMID: 30029022

08

Bringing urban governance back in: Neighborhood conflicts and depression.

Fu Q

Social science & medicine (1982)2018First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.035 PMID: 29125934

09

Clarifying hierarchical age-period-cohort models: A rejoinder to Bell and Jones.

Reither EN, Land KC, Jeon SY, Powers DA, Masters RK, Zheng H, Hardy MA, Keyes KM, Fu Q, Hanson HA, Smith KR, Utz RL, Yang YC

Social science & medicine (1982)2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.013 PMID: 26277370

10

Socioeconomic determinants of childhood overweight and obesity in China: the long arm of institutional power.

Fu Q, George LK

Sociology of health & illness2015First author

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12234 PMID: 26178452

One-Twentieth of Canada: Authoritarian-Racist Mythology and Socio-Political Realities of Chinese Canadians

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fu, Qiang

Keywords: Chinese Canadian; Authoritarianism; Racism; Computational Sociology; Respondent Driven Sampling; Survey Experiment; Social Capital; Social Networks; Political Incorporation; Activism

$37,510

How to build a nation for all nations? A mixed big-data approach to social integration of immigrants in Canada, 1970--2020

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fu, Qiang

Keywords: social integration; immigrants; Canada; big data; machine learning; topic modelling; sentiment analysis; mixed methods; social capital; place making; computational social science

$30,745

How to build a nation for all nations? A mixed big-data approach to social integration of immigrants in Canada, 1970--2020

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fu, Qiang

Keywords: social integration; immigrants; Canada; big data; machine learning; topic modelling; sentiment analysis; mixed methods; social capital; place making; computational social science

$64,245

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Department of Sociology
Urban Geography

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David Tindall

Department of Sociology

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Yushu Zhu

Urban Geography

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Fu, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Drink like a man? Modified Poisson analysis of adolescent binge drinking in the US, 1976-2022." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "One-Twentieth of Canada: Authoritarian-Racist Mythology and Socio-Political Realities of Chinese Canadians" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]