Xie Yu
time: 2026-01-08

Gender: Male  

Ethnicity: Han  

Education: Ph.D. (graduate)  

Title/Position: Professor  

Research fields: Urban sociology; youth social work; volunteer-service social work  

Departments: teaching and research Section for “Basic Principles of Marxism” / Social-Work Research Center  

E-mail: xieyu@scut.edu.cn  

 

Education  

Jun. 2015  Ph.D. in Law, Renmin University of China  

 

Professional Experience  

Sep. 2015 – present  Social-Work Research Center / School of Marxism, South China University of Technology (SCUT)  

Mar. 2019 – May 2020  Visiting Scholar, Silver School of Social Work, New York University  

 

Teaching  

1. Graduate course: “Social-Work Theory”  

2. Supervisor, social-work research practicum  

3. Undergraduate course: “Introduction to Basic Principles of Marxism”  

4. Undergraduate course: “Marxist Theory and Practice”  

 

Research  

Principal investigator of:  

- 2016 National Social Science Fund Youth Project  

- 2020 National Social Science Fund General Project  

- 2019 MOE Second-Batch Collaborative Education Project on Practice Conditions & Bases  

- 2015 Guangdong Provincial Philosophy & Social Science “12th Five-Year” Plan Project  

- China Post-doctoral Science Fund (58th General Grant)  

- Guangzhou Philosophy & Social Science “13th Five-Year” Plan 2020 Project  

- 2016 “Young Scholars of Yangcheng” Research Project  

 

Publications: More than 20 articles in journals such as Chinese Social Sciences (internal manuscript), Chinese Journal of Population Science, Fudan Education Forum, Academic Research, Fujian Forum, Sociological Review, and Social Construction; several articles reprinted or photocopied by Chinese Social Sciences Digest and RUC Photocopies; contributor to 10+ monographs.  

 

Academic affiliations:  

1. Council member, Chinese Sociological Association  

2. Youth council member, Social-Work Theory Committee, China Association for Social Work Education  

3. Council member, Migration Social-Work Committee, China Association for Social Work Education  

4. Executive council member & deputy secretary-general, Guangdong Social-Work Association  

5. Executive council member & deputy secretary-general, Guangzhou Social-Work Association  

6. Project evaluator (family-integrated services), Guangzhou Social-Organization Federation