• BSocSc, MPhil (Hong Kong); MSc, DPhil (Oxford)
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-2011)
• Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship (2008-2013)
• Junior Research Fellowship, St Hugh's College, Oxford (2008-2013)

• The household division of labour
• The gender wage gap
• Gender dynamics and inequalities in marital relationships (in the realms of time use, money management, wealth accumulation, and political choice and values)
• Empirical and methodological issues in time use research
• Working time and daily life schedules

• Gender, Time Allocation and the Wage Gap
• Time Together: Impacts of Desynchronized Work Schedules on Family Life in Britain and France, 1960s – 2000s

Refereed Journal Articles

• Kan, M. Y. and Gershuny, J. I. (forthcoming) ‘Enhancing the Potential of Stylised Time Use Data with Diary Data’. Social Indicators Research.
• Kan, M. Y. and Pudney, S. (October 2008) 'Measurement Error in Stylised and Diary Data on Time Use'. Sociological Methodology, 38, pp 101-132.
• Kan, M. Y. (March 2008) 'Measuring Housework Participation: the gap between "stylised" questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates'. Social Indicators Research, 86(3), pp. 381-400.
• Kan, M. Y. (March 2008) 'Does Gender Trump Money? Housework hours of husbands and wives in Britain'. Work, Employment and Society, 22(1), pp. 45-66.
• Kan, M. Y. (November 2007) 'Work Orientation and Wives' Employment Careers: an evaluation of Hakim's preference theory'. Work and Occupations, 34(4), pp. 430-462.
• Kan, M. Y. and Heath, A. (February 2006) 'The Political Values and Choices of Husbands and Wives'. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(1), pp. 70-86.

Book Chapters

• Kan, M. Y. & Gershuny, J. I. (in press) 'Gender and Time Use Over the Life-course'. in M. Brynin & J. Ermisch (eds) Changing Relationships. London: Routledge.

Working Papers

• Man Yee Kan, Jonathan Gershuny (April 2006) 'Infusing Time Diary Evidence into Panel Data: An exercise in calibrating time-use estimates for the BHPS, 1994-2004'. Working Paper of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2006-19. Colchester: University of Essex
• Man Yee Kan, Jonathan Gershuny (February 2006) 'Human Capital and Social Position in Britain: creating a measure of wage earning potential from BHPS data, 1991-2004'. Working Paper of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2006-03. Colchester: University of Essex

• July 2009