张译文 Yiwen Zhang
Forbes China 30 Under 30 · World Economic Forum Global Shaper
PhD student in Political Science, LSE Government
Political Economy of Inequality · Social Policy · Computational Social Science
福布斯中国 30 Under 30 · 世界经济论坛全球杰出青年
伦敦政治经济学院政府系政治学博士生
不平等政治经济学 · 社会政策 · 计算社会科学
I am a PhD student in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), affiliated with the Data Science Institute and supervised by Professor Valentino Larcinese. I am fully funded as a first-cohort Enlighten Scholar.
My research sits at the intersection of political economy, public opinion, social policy, and computational social science. I study how inequality shapes political behaviour, how welfare states structure citizens’ redistributive preferences, and how computational methods—including large language models—can be used to study political attitudes and policy-relevant questions.
我本科毕业于北京大学政府管理学院，现为伦敦政治经济学院政府系政治学博士生，同时隶属于数据科学研究所，导师为 Valentino Larcinese 教授。我是 LSE 首届 Enlighten Scholar，博士阶段获得全额资助。
我的研究关注不平等政治经济学、公共舆论、社会政策与计算社会科学之间的交叉问题。我尤其关心：不平等如何影响政治行为，福利国家如何塑造公民的再分配偏好，以及包括大语言模型在内的计算方法如何帮助我们研究政治态度与政策问题。
Before joining LSE, I worked at the International Organization for Migration, where I analysed the UK National Referral Mechanism data and contributed to policy-facing research on modern slavery and human trafficking.
Current research
- Welfare states, inequality, and redistributive politics
- Public opinion and political psychology
- Computational social science and LLM-generated synthetic data
- China, the UK, and comparative political economy
As a first-generation university student from Sichuan, China, I am passionate about public welfare and education equity. In my spare time, I enjoy playing football, watching musicals, and hiking.
Selected public work
- Co-founder, Future Youth (后浪计划)
- Co-founder, SheShapes Social Impact
Education
- MPhil in Comparative Politics, Peking University
- BA in Politics, Law, and Sociology, Peking University