BIO
Bo-Wei Chen is Professor and the Director of Graduate Institute of Gender Education at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. His research interests center on the sociology of masculinity, disability studies, care and justice, and qualitative methods. He has a particular interest in how intimacy is relationally lived out in the context of disability and in care research. His research aims to promote conceptual reconsideration of how the seemingly incongruent domains of disability studies and care research might be fruitfully joined to make sense of care and justice in the context of disability, sexualities and parenting.
EXPERTISE FIELDS
Disability Studies
Care Research
Sociology of Masculinities
Sexual Health Intervention
Sociology of Health & Illness
EDUCATION
2010 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Birmingham, UK
AWARDS
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Research Outstanding Award, National Kaohsiung Normal University
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Teaching Excellence Award, National Kaohsiung Normal University
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Teaching Excellence Award, Soochow University
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Teaching Excellence Award, Nanhua University
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Best Mentor Award, Nanhua University
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Research Funding Award, Ministry of Science and Technology
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Research Funding Award, Ministry of Science and Technology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Academic Service
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Editorial Board, Taiwanese Sociology (2023 – present)
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General Editor, The Sociological Review (2023 – 2024)
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Editorial Board, The Sociological Review (2021 – 2022)
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Editorial Board, Gender & Society (2016 – 2018)
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Secretary-General, Taiwan Society for Care Research (2024 – present)
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Board Member, Taiwan Society for Disability Studies (2018 – present)
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Board Member, Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association (2020 – 2022)
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Board Member, Human Research Ethics Committee, National Cheng Kung University (2022 – present)
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Global Advisory Board, Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health Book Series, Palgrave Macmillan (2023 – present)
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Board Member, Humanities Division Education Research Review Committee, National Science Council (2022 – 2024)
Public / Government Service
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Board Member, Kaohsiung City Gender Equality Committee (2025 – present)
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Board Member, Kaohsiung City Women’s Rights Promotion Committee (2023 – 2024)
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Board Member, Gender Equality Committee, National Science and Technology Council (2025 – present)