Dr. Liang-Wen Lin-Januszewski

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.