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Jing Wu

Senior Lecturer

Department of Sociology and Work 91̽»¨
Telephone
+46 31-786 50 80
Mail
jing.wu@gu.se
Visiting address
Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
Room number
F222
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

About Jing Wu

Profiles on other platforms:

Associate Professor of Sociology (since March 2023); Program Director of International Master's Program in Strategic Human Resource Management and Labor Relations (Since July 2020); visiting scholar at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (September 2023), Tallinn University, Estonia (November 2019), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, the Netherlands (December 2018), and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (March 2018); guest lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway (since 2022).

Doctoral thesis: European Older Adults’ Well-being and Suicide in the Societal and Family Context, Tallinn University, Estonia, April 2014.

  • Awarded Best Doctoral Dissertation in Social 91̽»¨s, University Student Research Competition 2014, Tallinn University, Estonia.
  • Awarded First Prize (Doctoral Dissertation in Social 91̽»¨s), Student Research Competition 2014, Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs.

Master of Social 91̽»¨s in Social Work, City University of Hong Kong, 2007.

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, National Women’s University of China, Beijing, 2003.

Main Research Interests

Older adults’ well-being in the context of welfare states, the ageing workforce, aged care systems, active and healthy ageing, and suicide prevention and mental health promotion in later life.

Current and Past Research

2025-2026 Principal Investigator (PI), Living Conditions, Inequality and Alcohol Use in Old Age: An Intersectional Study, funded by the Systembolaget Alcohol Resarch Council, Sweden.

2024-2025 Principal Investigator (PI), Resilience Promotion to Prevent Burnout: A Cross-Cultural Study in Sweden and the US, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).

2023 Main Coordinator and PI, research conference Aged Care in Context and Across Disciplines (hybrid format), University 91̽»¨, Sweden, funded by the Nordic Center, Shanghai, China and University of Oslo, Norway.

2015-2024 Researcher, engaged in research activities at AgeCap – Center for Ageing and Health, GU.

  • 2021 Recipient of the honorary prize of the Carin Mannheimer Award for junior researchers for the project When Ageism in the Workplace Meets Digitalization: An Exploratory Study on the Productivity and Capability of Older Workers in the Private Sector from the Perspectives of Employees, Employers, and HR Specialists, funded by the Centre of Ageing and Health (AgeCap), GU.

2018-2024 Researcher, involved in the Forte research project Suicidalt beteende hos äldre och vägen tillbaka till livet (Suicidal Behavior Among Older Adults and the Way Back to Life) (2016-2022) led by Prof. Margda Waern, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy.

2015-2018 Researcher, involved in the interdisciplinary project What We Are and What We Do - How Genetics and Living Conditions Impact on Dementia Among Older People (2015-2018), led by Prof. Björn Halleröd, Department of Sociology and Work 91̽»¨, University 91̽»¨ and Prof. Ingmar Skoog, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy.

2015-2015 Researcher, involved in the project Community-Based Support for the Elderly: Supporting Coping and Preventing Need for Institutional Care, funded by the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs.

2014-2014 Researcher and Trainer, involved in the project Health Promotion Station – Trainings for Communities, under the 2009-2014 Public Health Programme, funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

2012-2014 Researcher and Local Project Manager, involved in the public health project ACTION FOR HEALTH - Reducing Health Inequalities: Preparation for Action Plans and Structural Funds, funded by the European Union.

2008-2012 Researcher, involved in the EU 7th Framework Programme project OSPI-Europe - Optimized Suicide Prevention Programs and Their Implementation in Europe.

2003-2004 Researcher Assistant, invovled in Beijing Committee of 91̽»¨ and Technology project Comprehensive Intervention on Mental Disorders. Aimed to determine the prevalence of depressive disorder among inpatients and outpatients at general hospitals in Beijing.

2002-2003 Researcher Assistant, invovled in Research Grants Council of Hong Kong project Attitudes Toward and Cultural Meanings of Suicide in Contemporary Chinese Society. Provided foundational insights for effective public campaigns, programs and policies to reduce suicides in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Teaching, Supervision, and Examination

Courses taught include social (in)equality, social relations, family and the welfare state, mental health and well-being, ageing, European studies, working conditions, and human resource management (HRM). Supervised and examined a wide range of master's and bachelor's theses in sociology, work science and HRM. Course leader for a PhD-level statistical methods course in the social sciences.

Journal Review

Reviewer for the following peer-reviewed journals:

BMC Geriatrics, PLOS ONE, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Gender and Sustainability in the Global South, Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, Frontiers in Public Health, The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Social Inclusion, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Archives of Suicide Research, BMC Public Health

Language Proficiency

Chinese (native), English (work), Swedish (work), Estonian (national level B1)