AGEING AND SERVICES IN CHANGING SOCIETIES
NORDIC CENTRE AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI
Due to the circumstances caused by the coronavirus, the doctoral training in Ageing Population Studies is organised in three parts:
three introductory online meetings in December 2020, in March 2021 and in June 2021
sessions online in the autumn semester 2021, obligatory for completing the course and for obtaining 3 ECTS credits
optional 5-day intensive period (2 ECTS credits) at the Nordic Centre at Fudan University, Shanghai in the spring semester 2022, if the travel restrictions allow, complementing the obligatory virtual sessions
The students who will finish their PhD studies in 2021 will be able to complete the training online. During the 5-day intensive study period in Shanghai next spring, it will also be possible to teach and learn in face-to-face discussions and on field trips.
Thanks to a mobility funding from the Finnish National Agency of Education, the participating Finnish universities will invite five Chinese PhD students to Finland for one week in 2021 - 2022 and organise joint webinars on selected topics stemming from the course discussions. One Chinese PhD student will be invited to Linköping University. The timing of the visits will be agreed upon between each university and the Chinese PhD student in question. The Chinese students can participate in local research seminars, create networks and use the local facilities for the benefit of their own studies. The funding is available also for the students who complete their PhD studies during the training if they continue working in one of the organising universities.
Copyright: Gerontology Research Centre GEREC
The four principal themes of the training are
digitalisation in the lives of older adults
services for older adults
social relations of older adults
societal responses to ageing.
Preliminary programme See here
Abstracts of lectures See here
Fees
No tuition fee, lunches as well as all other events in the programme are included. Participation for the entire programme is required.
Scope
3 ECTS for the obligatory online sessions + 2 ECTS for the optional intensive period in Shanghai, decision on recognition to be made by students’ home universities.
Eligibility
PhD students of relevant fields of research from Chinese universities and from the member universities of NC Fudan.
Outcomes for students
Different and comparative perspectives to one’s own research concepts, support for individual research work and Sino-Nordic networking.
Main organisers
China
Fudan University
Zhejiang University
Nordic Centre at Fudan University
Finland
Tampere University
University of Eastern Finland
University of Helsinki
University of Lapland
University of Turku
Sweden
Linköping University
Further information
Leena Uski, Tampere University (leena.uski@tuni.fi)
Kirsi Korpela, University of Turku (kirsi.korpela@utu.fi), out of office in July
Bios:
CHEN Honglin
Dr. Honglin Chen is a professor and the vice chair at the Department of Social Work, Fudan university. She is both the editorial board member and reviewer of many international journals. Dr. Chen serves as the deputy committee member, Aging Division, Social Work Education Association of China and the Committee member of Shanghai Municipal Preventive Medicine Association, Branch of Social Medicine. She is also a Sino-Sweden Linnaeus-Palme Visiting Professor at the social work department of Gothenburg University (2014-) and Sino-America Fulbright Scholar at the Gerontology school in USC (2015-2016).
Her current research interests focus upon: Gerotechonology, evidence-based social work practice, and intervention among MCI patients. Particularly in respect of social work with older adults and family. She has published more than 50 papers internationally. She is a good partner for teamwork and has been actively engaged in a few interdisciplinary research projects worldwide. Dr. Chen has a stout belief on transferring research knowledge to practical world and has been engaging in many community services.
Minna Zechner
Associate Professor (tenure track)
Social Work (Welfare Services and Policies)
University of Lapland
P.O. Box 122 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
+358 400 13 8878
Minna Zechner works as an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Lapland at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research interests include care of older adults, including informal and formal care as well as care in transnational settings. Her research is qualitative and she is experienced also in comparative research, especially of policies on care and ageing.
Tarja Välimäki
University lecturer, PhD, docent
University of Eastern Finland
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Nursing Science
Email: Tarja.valimaki@uef.fi
Tel: +35840 3552267
Tarja Välimäki works as a university lecturer at the Department of Nursing Science. Her research deals with older people's care, especially on family caregiving and memory diseases. Dr. Välimäki is currently senior researcher in several projects on older people's care. She is a principal investigator on longitudinal study developing easy access group interventions at care homes. Dr. Välimäki's interests focus on psychosocial interventions in dementia care.
Ageing in China and Strategic Responses
Yuan Ren (Fudan University)
Ren Yuan
Abstract: Based on demographic analysis, the speaker will introduce the general situation and historic process of ageing in China. The speaker will explain reasons of China's fast ageing, and illustrates main challenges of ageing to people's wellbeing and demands for betters social security and aged care system. The speaker will explain the main global strategies responding ageing, including healthy ageing, active ageing, productive ageing and successful ageing, and so on, and discuss the implication for China's public policies on ageing issues.
Yuan Ren is a professor at Fudan University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy, and Institute of Population Research (IPR). He was awarded as the “New Century Excellent Talents” by National Ministry of Education in 2012, and he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University (2015-2016). His recent publications include China’s Next Urbanization (2017), Post-Demographic Transition (2016), Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries (2014), and etc.
Ilkka Pietilä
Assistant professor
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences
Email: Ilkka.pietila@helsinki.fi
tel. +358505912672
Ilkka Pietilä is an assistant professor of social gerontology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research has explored people’s gendered interpretations of health and ageing, with a particular interest in ageing men and masculinities, ageing and embodiment as well as older men’s communities, grandfatherhood and retirement. Recently he has also studied policies aimed at extending working lives in European countries and participated in EU-Cost Action Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life. Pietilä has published journal articles in such journals as The Gerontologist, Ageing & Society, Health Psychology, Journal of Aging Studies, Men and Masculinities, Sociology of Health and Illness, and Social Science and Medicine. He has supervised three PhD theses and is currently a supervisor of around 10 doctoral students. Pietilä is a member of editorial board of Journal of Aging Studies, officer-at-large in the research committee of sociology of ageing of the International Sociological Association as well as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Nordic Gerontological Federation.
HU Yan
PhD, Professor, RN, FAAN
Professor HU Yan is dean in School of Nursing Fudan University, director of Fudan University Center of Evidence-based Nursing, a Collaborating Center of Joanna Briggs Institute. She is also acting chair of CMB China Nursing Network (CCNN), which is the collaborating network funded by China Medical Board (CMB). She acts as Editorial Board Member of Journal of Advanced Nursing(JAN), International Journal of Nursing Practice, and other peer-reviewed nursing journals. Her current research focus are on supportive care and quality of life of breast cancer survivals, and symptom management for HIV/AIDS patients using evidence-based nursing approach. She has research funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China Medical Board (CMB) and Shanghai Health Bureau et al, with more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed International or Chinese core nursing journals during the recent five years. Recent years, professor HU Yan and her research team is working on developing and implementing nursing practice guidelines for patient with HIV/AIDS and involving in global health projects.
Kaisa Mishina
University teacher, senior researcher
University of Turku
Faculty of Medicine
Department of Nursing Science
Email: kaisa.mishina@utu.fi
Tel: +358 40 533 8798
Kaisa Mishina works as a university teacher at the Department of Nursing Science, and as a senior researcher at the Research Center of Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku, Finland. Dr. Mishina has been involved in several multidisciplinary research projects related to interventions in health care. Her research interests are mainly related to mental health, addictions and substance use. Her expertise is in the area of development, assessment and implementation of digitally delivered interventions. Currently, she is either leading or being closely involved in three wider research projects: 1) digitally delivered universal parent training program in public health care, 2) health and wellbeing of people who inject drugs, and 3) the occupational safety of nurses working in psychiatric hospitals.
Yan Yan
Coordination and integration of formal and informal community care resources: Experience from Shanghai and its international implication
Yan-Yan Chen, PhD and Associate Professor from Social Work Department, Fudan University. Her research interest includes gerontological social work and poverty research. She had participated in research projects on subjective experience of the urban aged poor, community factors promoting aging in place, continuous care and chronic disease management from social work perspective, integration of health care and social care for elders living in community, etc. Some of her papers were published on Journal of Aging and Mental Health, Ageing & Society, Qualitative Health Research, etc.
Eija Kärnä
Professor
University of Eastern Finland, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
Email: eija.karna@uef.fi
Tel: +358 505 662404
Eija Kärnä works as a professor of Special Education at the Faculty of philosophy, University of Eastern Finland. Professor Kärnä has been involved as a principle investigator in many national and international development and research projects. All development and research projects have been multidisciplinary. She is currently the leader of four externally funded projects: 1)Research-based reinforcement of skills related to enhanced special support in teacher education and in-service training (TUVET) funded the Ministry of Equation and Culture, 2) ACCESS – Supporting digital literacy and appropriation of ICT by older people funded by the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) "More Years, Better Lives - The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change" and the Academy of Finland, 3) Expanding learning environments and support in early childhood education (LaTVA) funded by the Regional Council of North Karelia, 4) Peer Interactions involving Children with Autism Spectrum disorder in inclusive classrooms (PEICAS) funded by the Academy of Finland. Her research interests are inclusive learning environments for all ages, technology for individuals with versatile needs, and digital literacy for various age groups.
Kirsi Lumme-Sandt
University lecturer, adjunct professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University, Finland
e-mail:kirsi.lumme-sandt@tuni.fi
tel. +358 40 1901606
Kirsi Lumme-Sandt works as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her main task is to develop the faculty’s doctoral training. She is also a director of Gerontology Research Center (www.gerec.fi), which is a collaborative effert of Universities of Tampere and Jyväskylä.
She is a senior researcher in several multidisciplinary research projects in the field of ageing. She is a co-PI in a project, where it is studied ageing workers and their workability as well as their thoughts and possibilities on prolonging their work careers. Last 20 years she has been part of a team, which studies people, who are more than 90 years old. She has been in charge of their biographical interviews. Dr. Lumme-Sandt is also known of her work on image of old age in Finnish popular media.
Outi Jolanki
Dr., Docent, Research Director
Tampere University, Faculty of Social Sciences
Email: outi.jolanki@tuni.fi
Tel. +358 40 190 1660
Outi Jolanki works as a Research Director in the Tampere University. Her central responsibilities are linked to the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare, www.jyu.fi/agecare) in which she acts a co-leader of the Tampere University research group in collaboration of the University of Jyväskylä. She has been involved in several large-scale research projects on interlinkages of ageing, family care and housing and care policies (WOCAWO, MOVAGE, LinkAge, ASUVA), and patient choice in social and health care (VALINT). Her current research focuses on ageing in place and housing of older people, in particular new housing models which promote social engagement and reciprocity of the residents, and offer accessible environment and care services.
Her teaching experience covers topics of social gerontology, housing and care policies, and qualitative research methods. She contributes to the work of scientific community as the Editor-in-Chief of the Finnish journal of gerontology (Gerontologia), the Section Editor of the International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) Debates & Issues, a member of the editorial board of Journal of Ageing Studies (JAS), and as a board member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network Ageing in Europe. Her work on housing and care has led her to collaborate with public sector, third sector and private sector actors as well with the citizens’ associations.
Yan Fei
YAN, Fei, MD. Ph.D, is Professor of the Department of Social Medicine at the School of Public Health of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She has been long engaged in teaching and research on social medicine. Her research areas cover health services and health system research, especially on primary health care, equity on health and health care for the vulnerable groups, health human resource development, and disease control. She has played a leading role in dozens projects funded by the Ministry of Health of China, the EU, the WHO, UK DFID, the China Ministry of Science and Technology, the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau and other agencies. Projects she has been involved in provided policy recommendations and contributed to government policy-making that led to improvement. She has been appointed as a national consultant on several China programs, and collaborates with both developed and developing countries involving in global health programs.
Elisa Tiilikainen
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Social Work (Effectiveness of Social Services)
University of Eastern Finland
P.O. Box 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
Elisa Tiilikainen currently works as an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Department of Social Sciences. Her research has focused on loneliness, social relations and social exclusion in later life from different perspectives. In addition, she has worked in a large consortium project examining effectiveness of group based care management for older people living alone. Methodologically Tiilikainen is has a special interest towards life course research and narrative gerontology.