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Introduction
Dr Jie Wang is a research fellow at the Department of Educational Economics and Administration, South China Normal University (Guangzhou). He studied Sociology at Nanjing University for a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, following which he studied for a PhD at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales (Sydney). Before taking the current position, he was a research associate at the School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou).
Additional affiliations
July 2018 - December 2022
Education
August 2013 - February 2018
University of New South Wales
Field of study
- Social Policy
September 2010 - June 2013
Nanjing University
Field of study
- Sociology
September 2006 - June 2010
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Publications (2)
Background
Since the 2000s, local governments have contracted out more and more social services to social work organizations in China. Social workers are thus experiencing the inconsistency between local governments' and clients' demands and the deviation from the professional duty of helping clients, which may result in conflicting and unclear rol...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for ‘Internet plus social work’ service delivery for older people. We analysed the China Family Panel Studies and the Resident Help-seeking Data and interviewed eight older people. We found that a growing age-based mobile digital divide of China in the last decade. In the pandemic, older people encount...
