Herr Dr. Jake Lin

• 2019-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany

• 2017-19 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow / Lecturer, Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

• 2016-17 Research Fellow / Postgraduate Supervisor, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2016 Ph.D. Political science & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand

• 2013-15 Tutor / Research assistant, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2015 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Government and Public Administration, Universidade de Macau, Macau

• 2014 Visiting Research Fellow, the Institute of Population and Labor Economics (IPLE), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing

• 2012 Master of International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2007 Graduate Diploma in Art, Art History and Theory, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

• 2019-23 Co-investigator, European Research Council (ERC) funded project “Welfare for Migrant Factory Workers: Moral Struggles and Politics of Care under Market Socialism” (Grant No.803614)

• 2017-19 Principal Investigator, Research Grant by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), JSPS Kakenhi “Globalization and Labor Governance: A Comparative Study of Labor and Social Movement in China and Japan” (Grant No.JP17F17789)

• 2017-19 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (selected as the Catalyst Leaders 2017 by Royal Society New Zealand)

• 2017-18 Co-investigator, Multi-Year Research Grant, the University of Macau. “Democracy, Development, or Power? Informal Workers in India and China.”

• 2015-16 Visiting Research Scholarship, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau

• 2015 Associate Research Fellowship, New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, New Zealand

• 2014 Visiting Research Scholarship, the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

• 2014 Faculty Research Committee Grant, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

2019 - Member, Global Studies Association of North America

2018 - Referee/reviewer, The China Journal

2018 - Referee/reviewer, The Journal of Contemporary Asia

2018 - Member, International Political Science Association (IPSA)

2016 - Associate Editor, The Journal of Labor & Society

2016 - Member, New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA)

2012 - Member, New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters