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• SOC2/3MSR - Social Research Methods.
• SOC2/3MTB - Quantitative Methods in Social Research.
• SOC2/3WOE - Worlds of Exclusion: Global Social Inequalities.

Refereed journal articles

• Huang, X and Western, M 2011 ‘Social Networks and Occupational Attainment in Australia’, Sociology 45(2): 269-286.
• Huang, X 2008, ‘Guanxi Networks and Job Searches in China’s Emerging Labour Market: A Qualitative Investigation’, Work, Employment and Society 22(3): 467-484.
• Huang, X 2008, ‘Boundaries of Guanxi Networks: Empirical Evidence from the Emerging Labour Market in China’, Society, 28(6): 39-59.
• Bian, Y and Huang, X 2009, 'Network Resources and Job Mobility in China's Transitional Economy', in L Keister (ed.), Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol.19, Emerald Books, UK, pp 255-282.

Book chapters

• Huang, X 2008, ‘The Institutional Space and Job Search Channels in China’s Emerging Labour Market’, in Lulu Li and Yanjie Bian (eds), Institutional Transformation and the Dynamics of Social Stratification in Urban China, Renmin University of China Press, Beijing, pp 193-208.
• Huang, X 2008 ‘Economic Transformation and Income Inequality in Urban China: Evidence from Panel Data’, in Yanjie Bian, Xiaogang Wu, and Lulu Li (eds) Social Stratification and Mobility: Overseas Researchers’ New Advancements and Analyses of China (Translation Volume), Beijing, Renmin University of China, pp.62-99.
• Zhang, W and Huang, X 2004, ‘Administrative Resources in Survey Implementation’, in Yanjie Bian, Lulu Li, and He Cai (eds), Social Survey Research in Practice: Chinese Experience and Analysis, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong , pp 111-140.

Refereed conference papers

• Huang, X and Western, M 2010 ‘Social Support Networks and Subjective Well-being in Queensland’, TASA 2010 Conference Proceedings: Social Causes, Private Lives. Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, Macquarie University, Sydney, 6-9 December.
• Huang, X and Western, M 2010 ‘Getting a Job in Australia: Evidence from AuSSA2007 and Methodological Reflections’, ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference. The University of Sydney, 1-3 December.
• Huang, X 2009, 'Job Search Methods and Job-Worker Matching: An Explorative Study in Australia', TASA 2009 Conference Proceedings: The Future of Sociology, Australian National University, December 2009.
• Huang, X and Western, M 2008 ‘Social Networks and Occupational Attainment in Australia: A Preliminary Analysis’, TASA 2008 Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, University of Melbourne, 2-5 December 2008.
• Huang, X 2007 ‘Finding Niches: Social Networks and Job Search in Transitional China’, TASA/SAANZ 2007 Joint Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association and Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 4-7 December 2007. 
• Huang, X 2006 ‘Where to Network: Job Acquisition in China’s Emerging Labour Market’, TASA 2006 Conference Proceedings. Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, 4-7 December 2006.

Presented papers

• Huang, X and Western, M 2010  ‘How do Australians Search for Jobs? Evidence from a National Survey’, the 12th International Conference of Australian Studies in China, Shanghai, 28-30 October.
• Bian, Y and Huang, X 2010 ‘Marketization and Job Search Networks in Urban China: A Decade of Change’, INSNA Sunbelt XXX Conference, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, 29 June - 4 July.
• Huang, X and Western, M 2010 ‘Social Support Networks and Life Satisfaction in Queensland’, Social Wellbeing in Queensland Conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 15 June.
• Bian, Y and Huang, X 2009 ‘Network Resources and Job Mobility in China’s Transitional Economy’, International Conference on Relational Sociology in China, Institute for Empirical Social Science Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 3-5 October.
• Huang, X and Western, M 2009 ‘Social Networks and Occupational Attainment in Australia’, Spring Meeting of Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28 of International Sociological Association), Beijing, China, 14-16 May.
• Huang, X  2008 ‘Institutional Niches and Coexisting Job Search Methods: Evidence from Transitional China”, 103rd Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1-4 August.
• Bian, Y and Huang, X 2008 ‘From Potential to Realization: The Mobilization of Social Capital by Chinese Job Seekers’, 28th Sunbelt Conference, International Network for Social Network Analysis, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, 22-27 Jan.
• Huang, X  2007  ‘Social Networks and Institutional Niches in China’s Emerging Labour Market’, The Chinese Studies Association of Australia 10th Biennial Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 27-29 June.
• Bian, Y and Huang, X 2007 ‘Favor, Matching, and Structural Holes: Network Effects on Wage Income in China’, 27th Sunbelt Conference, International Network for Social Network Analysis, Corfu, Greece, 1-6 May.
• Huang, X  2005  ‘Segmented Labour Market vs. Varied Job Search Channels: An Empirical Analysis from Chinese Cities’, The First Graduate Seminar on China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 11-15 January.
• Huang, X  2005 ‘To be the ‘Matchmakers’: Social Networks in the Two-sided Employment Process’, Annual Conference of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association, Philadelphia, USA, 12 August.
• Huang, X  2005 ‘Potent but not Omnipotent: the Relative Efficacy of Social Networks in Chinese Labour Market’, Annual conference of the Urban China Research Network in Albany, New York, Chinese Cities in Transition: The Next Generation of Urban Research, Shanghai, China, 7-9 July.
• Huang, X  2004 ‘Job Search Channels in Differentiated Labour Market of Urban China’, Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong, 4 December.

Research grants

• 2009-2010 Various competitive research grants, La Trobe University
• 2008-2009  The University of Queensland Early Career Researcher Grant
• 2008  The University of Queensland Travel Awards for International Collaborative Research
• 2006-2009  The University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• 2006-2009  Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Maintenance funds, The University of Queensland 
• 2005  Research Travel Grant of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong
• 2003  Graduate Student Awards from the Urban China Research Network at State University of New York, Albany, USA

Research projects

Participated in the large scale survey projects :

• 2006-2009 Social Wellbeing and Social Inequality Survey in Queensland (ARC Linkage Grant), University of Queensland Social Research Centre.
• 2003-2005 Chinese General Social Survey, Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Department of Sociology at Renmin University of China.