Dr. Liang-Wen Lin-Januszewski

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

• 2026

  Registration Grant of the British Sociological Association Annual Conference 

• 2025

  Registration Grant of RC Sociology of Education,  the 5th ISA Sociology Forum

• 2023

  Selected for Presentation at Research with International Students Conference, Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester (UK)

  Registration Grant of RC Sociology of Education,  the 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology

  Selected for residential writing retreat for mid-career scholars (April 17-19), The Sociological Review Foundation 

• "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.