Sociology of Education; Globalization and Higher Education; International Students Transition; First-Gen Students; Social class and Educational Inequality

2023

• Selected for a fully-funded presentation at the Research with International Students Conference (11-12 December), Manchester. 
• Registration Grant of RC Sociology of Education, the 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology.
• Selected for fully-funded residential writing retreat for mid-career scholars (17-19 April), The Sociological Review Foundation.

2014

• Honorary member, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
• Travel Grant for Starting Sociologists in East Asia, International Sociological Association (ISA).
• Registration Grant of RC Sociology of Education, the 18th ISA World Congress of Sociology.

2013

• Graduate Student Travel Award, Division of Social Context of Education, American Educational Research Association (AERA).
• Travel Grant, China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture, Taiwan.
• AERA Travel Funds, Department of Education, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

2012

• Professional Conference Travel Grant Program, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
• Travel Grant, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan.
• ISA Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in Sociology. 
• Travel Grant for the New Scholars, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).
• Travel Grant, Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

2011

• Professional Conference Travel Grant, UCLA Graduate School of Education.

2010-2012

• Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA), Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

2010-2011

• UCLA Graduate Division Award, Nonres Tuition Grant.                 

2009-2010

• UCLA GSE&IS, Dean’s Scholar, Lee Memorial Fund Fellowship.
• UCLA TA Scholarship.

2008-2009

• Graduate Students Study Abroad Program, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan.

• "Social class as a lens for understanding the transition of first-year college students in Germany," Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, 04/2023, Taiwan. (in Mandarin)
• "Social class as a lens for understanding the transition of first-year college students in Germany," Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, 04/2023, Taiwan. (in English)
• “Globalization and higher education,” Department of Global Politics and Economics, Tamkang University, 03/2023, Taiwan. (in English)
• “Higher education and hidden curriculum: A visual approach,” Teacher Education Program, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 03/2021, Taiwan.*Virtual*
• “School culture and hidden curriculum,” Teacher Education Program, National Chiao Tung University, 03/2020, Taiwan. *Virtual*
• “School culture and hidden curriculum,” Teacher Education Program, National Chiao Tung University, 03/2019, Taiwan.
• “Globalization and higher education,” Graduate Institute of Latin American Studies, Tamkang University, 03/2019, Taiwan.
• “Symbolic interactionism and Facebook,” Teacher Education Program, National Taiwan Normal University, 03/2017, Taiwan.
• “Sociological paradigm: Symbolic interactionism,” Teacher Education Program, National Taiwan Normal University, 03/2016, Taiwan.
• “It’s not/all about having fun: Identity work and social norms of Taiwanese college students on Facebook,” Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, 09/2014, China.
• “Chasing new generations in Taiwan: A novice college teacher’s story of accomplishing teaching belief and instruction practice,” Taiwanese Women Studies Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 03/2009, USA.

• International Sociological Association (ISA), RC Sociology of Education & Visual Sociology.
• European Sociological Association (ESA), RC Sociology of Education & Youth and Generation.
• Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), SIG: Higher Education.
• Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER).
• American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division of Postsecondary Education, SIG: Sociology of Education.

• Reviewer for Center for Taiwan Academic Research Ethics Education (AREE), Ministry of Education, 2023
• Reviewer for Fulbright Germany, Fulbright-Doktorand:innenprogramm (2023-2024)
• Reviewer for Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education (2022-current); Cogent Education (2022- current); Social Inclusion (2021- current); American Educational Research Association Annual Conference-SIG-Sociology of Education, Division J - Postsecondary Education (2014, 2017); Journal of Professional Teacher (2015).
• Qualitative Methods Consultant, Medical Education Committee, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital International Medical Center, 2014, Taiwan.
• Executive Assistant, The Alumni Association of Department of Education, NTNU (2012-2013).
• Session Chair, “Making the case for ‘world-class’ universities (Part 2)”, Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, 4/2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• On-site Exhibitor, National Association for Foreign Students Association(NAFSA) Annual Conference & Expo, 5/2009, Los Angeles.
• Accountant, Taiwan Association for Sociology of Education (2006-2008).

Lecturer

• Universität Paderborn, Seminar

1. Introduction to the Sociology of Higher Education;
2. Main theories in the Sociology of Education;
3. Social Class, Education, and Social (In)equality;
4. Transitions in Education and Social Inequality;
5. Doing the sociology of education through Photovoice methodology 

• Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, Seminar

1. Reading and Understanding Classical and Contemporary Sociological Texts  

• National Taiwan Normal University

1. Sociology of Education (Graduate Seminar), In-service teacher education program, 2008.
2. Sociology of Education (Undergraduate Lecture), Teacher education program, 2006-2008.
3. Principles of Instruction (Undergraduate Lecture), Teacher education program, 2006-2008.
4. Sociology of Education (Undergraduate Lecture), Extension Division of In-service and Continuing Education, 2005.

Teaching Assistant

• University of California, Los Angeles

1. Politics of Education (under/graduate), Prof. Carlos A. Torres, Summer 2010.
2. Sociology of Organizations (undergraduate), Prof. Lynne G. Zucker, Spring 2009.

• National Taiwan Normal University

1. Philosophy of Education (undergraduate), Prof. Shen-Keng Yang, 2004-2006.
2. Politics of Education (graduate), Prof. Li-Yun Wang, 2003-2004.

In English

Chan, Sheng-Ju, & Lin, Liang-Wen*. (2015). Massification of higher education in Taiwan: Shifting pressure from admission to employment. Higher Education Policy, 28(1), 17-33. DOI.

In Traditional Chinese

Chen, S., & Lin, Liang-Wen*. (2022). Study on education inequality of differentiated groups in remote learning during COVID-19. Journal of Education Research, 344, 51-71. DOI:10.53106/168063602022120344004

Lin, Liang-Wen*, & Liao, Y.-K. (2006). Gender and digital divide in Taiwan: A literature review. Research of Educational Communication and Technology, 77, 39-50.

Lin, Liang-Wen*, Lin, F.-C., & Hong, R.-J. (2004). The challenges of junior high school art education: Past, present, and future. Secondary Education, 55(1), 174-188.

Invited, not peer-reviewed

Lin, Liang-Wen. (2006). Creating a classroom of equality of educational opportunity. Taipei County Education, 56, 60-63. 

In English

Lin-Januszewski, Liang-Wen. (forthcoming). Émile Durkheim: Father of the Sociology of Education. In B. A. Geier (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan.

In Traditional Chinese

Lin, Liang-Wen. (2023). Teacher's roles and teacher professionalism. In Taiwan Association for the Sociology of Education (TASE) (Ed.), Sociology of education: Theory, experience, and implication (pp.205-229). Angle.

Academic Blog

Lin-Januszewski, Liang-Wen. (2022, March 3). “Put in the time and effort to write rigorous, well-thought-out reviews”: Interview with Greg William Misiaszek, Executive Editor of “Teaching in Higher Education.” Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER) Blog. https://echer.org/interview-with-greg-william-misiaszek/

E-Paper

Lin, Liang-Wen. (2010). Introduction to the Office of Instructional Development, University of California- Los Angeles. Center for Teaching and Learning Development, National Taiwan Normal University, 25. http://ctld.ntnu.edu.tw/epaper_data/epaper25/epaper25_teaching.html

Conference E-Proceedings

Lin, Liang-Wen*, & Chang, JasonChien-Cheng. (2006, May). Revisiting the youth culture studies in Taiwan. The 12nd Forum of Taiwan Association for Sociology of Education, Taipei, Taiwan.

Lin, Liang-Wen (2005, November). Gender war? Male disadvantage in gender and education. International Sino Educational Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

English to Traditional Chinese

hooks, b. (2009). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom (In Liu, M., Trans. Ch1, 2, 3, 14). Pro-Ed. (Original work published in 1994)

2023

(Accepted) "Reimagining research with international students via photovoice: Toward inclusive and decolonized knowledge production," Research with International Students Conference, Manchester, UK, December. 

"First-year university transition experiences of German students in the global pandemic," XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, June.

"International students’ first-semester transition experiences after the Pandemic in Germany, "XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, June.

2018

“Struggling academic life: University faculty’s perceptions of and responses to the SSCI-oriented evaluation systems in Taiwan,” Borders and boundaries: Debating the limits and possibilities of education, Lancaster, UK, July.

2016

“Not/All about having fun: Social norms of belonging amongst college students on Facebook,” International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Austria, July.

2015

“Habitus on social media: College students’ different approaches to identity construction on Facebook,” European Sociological Association Annual Conference, Prague, Czech, August.

2014

“Education Faculty members’ perceptions of and responses to the SSCI-oriented academic evaluation systems in Taiwan,” International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July.

“Identity formation and social relations on Facebook for Taiwanese college students,” International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July.

2013

“Identity work and social norms of Taiwan college students on Facebook,” American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, April.

2012

“Incorporation and indigenization of global university rankings in Taiwan,” Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April.

“Facebook as the cultural world of identity formation for college students,” British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, September.

“Identity formation on Facebook for college students in Taiwan,” Annual European Conference on Educational Research, Cádiz, Spain, September.

2011

“Impact of global rankings on higher education evaluation in Taiwan,” Comparative and International Education Society Western Regional Conference, San Francisco, CA, October.