Program Results

Introduction to the event

Associate Professor Jen-Hao Chen continues his research on social relationships, social structure, and health by using diverse data and methods. During his third year of appointment at National Chengchi University, he published two single-authored articles in prestigious SSCI journals and received Erickson Foundation Research Award in Positive Aging from the American Public Health Association. In addition to a 2-year grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology that investigates the role of assortative mating and trajectories of cognitive function in older couples. He also works together with two junior scholars and received another grant from MOST that measures experiences of microaggression of urban-dwelling indigenous people and the impact of such experiences on their health and well-being in Taiwan. He continues to serve on the editorial board of two prestigious journals—Sociology of Health and Illness and Taiwanese Sociology. He also assumes the role of coordinator of the ETP program at NCCU and helps restructure the EMI courses of the program and the English-learning environment at NCCU. Associate Professor Jen-Hao Chen teaches 4 courses during the past year, with 2 English-taught courses. Finally, he actively advises master and doctoral students and recruits students to build a strong research team, and mentor students on research projects and teach them how to publish in TSSCI/SSCI journals.