Research interests: technical/organizational sociology, family/child social work
WeChat official account: "Walking social worker"
I. Work & Education Experience
November 2021 to present, Professor, School of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2015-2018, Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
2013-2021, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2009-2013, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Wuhan University
2004-2009, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, Peking University
2001-2004, Master candidate, Wuhan University Law School
1997-2001, Undergraduate student, School of Humanities, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
II. Research Interests
"Five Communities Linkage" and grassroots governance, protection of minors, family therapy, social work teaching and supervision, information technology application research
III. Courses
Social Work Theory, Family Social Work, Children's Social Work, The Art and Technology of Love (Universal)
IV. Monograph
Ren Min et al., "Walking Social Worker: Profession, Love, Growth", Social Science Academic Press, 2021
Ren Min, Information Technology Application and Organizational Culture Change, Chinese Minmin University Press, 2020
V. Translations
Ren Min, Deng Suo, et al., Modern Sociological Theory, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, 2022
Ren Min, Li Lu, Lin Hong, Structural Hole, by Ronald Bot, Shanghai: Gezhi Publishing House/Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2008
VI. Selected publications
1. The theme of "Five Communities Linkage"
Ren Min, Lv Jiangrui et al., 2022, Exploration and Practice of Community Funds in "Five Communities Linkage", China Civil Affairs, No. 6.
Meng Zhiqiang, Ren Min, Wu Binxiang, Wang Weimin, Yao Weiwei, et al., 2021, "Five Community Linkage" Promotes the Modernization of Grassroots Governance System and Grassroots Governance Capacity, China Civil Affairs, No. 9.
Ren Min, Han Jingyi, and Liu Yuan, 2021, A Preliminary Study on the Professional Advantages of Social Workers in the "Five Communities Linkage", China Civil Affairs, No. 5.
Ren Min, 2021, Three Models of "Five Community Linkage" Participation in Community Governance and Their Common Characteristics, China Social Work, No. 4.
Ren Min and Qi Li, 2021, Urban-rural comparison of "Five Communities" elements under the framework of "Five Communities Linkage", China Social Work, No. 3.
Ren Min, Hu Penghui and Zheng Xianling, 2021, Background, Connotation and Advantages of "Five Communities Linkage", China Social Work, No. 1.
2. Local social work knowledge series
Ren Min et al., "China Social Work" 2022 "Technology" column 12 articles, such as:
Ren Min and Liu Yuan, "Demand Chain Back" - How to Sustainable Charity Resource Investment, September 1.
Ren Min and Lu Jiangrui, "Floating Clients" - Who Does the Social Worker Serve, in late August.
Ren Min, Luo Yudi, "Poison King" Becomes "Orange King" - How Social Workers Help New Crown Pneumonia Recovered Patients Integrate into Society, in July.
Ren Min and Wang Jinxuan, The Road to Employment Help for Older Orphans: How to Establish a Social Adaptation Service System in Welfare Institutions, late June.
Ren Min, Lin Mengmeng, How Social Workers Empower - Family Relationship Construction for Men with Mental Disabilities, late May.
Ren Min, Liu Yuan, Sexually Harassed by Clients – What to Do with Social Workers, Late April.
Ren Min and Yan Yiwen, Facing the "autistic" child who lost his father - how social workers build a relationship with the client system, late March.
Ren Min, Zhang Yuxin, Mentally Disabled Mothers in the Delivery Room - What is the "Client-Centered" Principle, 2 below.
Ren Min, Lu Jiangrui, 7-year-old boy after jumping off a building - how social workers ask to avoid "secondary injury", late January.
3. Topics in the Sociology of Technology
Ren M, 2017, "How Technology Applications Succeed: An Explanation of an Organizational Legitimacy Framework", Sociological Research, No. 3. ——Reprinted in full in the 8th issue of Sociology, 2017.
Ren Min, 2012, Information Technology Application and Organizational Culture Change: A Case Study of ERP Application in Large SOE C Company, Sociological Research, No. 6. ——Reprinted in full in Sociology, No. 3, 2013.
4. Other main articles
Ren Min and Zheng Xianling, 2022, The development of "chimeric" social work as each other's subjects and its mechanism analysis: A case study of the development process of a rural social work station in western Guangdong, China Social Work Research, No. 22 (forthcoming).
Ren Min and Wu Shiyou, 2018, Exploration of the "Shuttle Action Research" Model in Social Work Education, China Social Work Research, 16th Series.
Ren Min, 2009, "Types of Interpersonal Relationships and Their Interaction Logic in Modern Society: An Attempt to Expand the 'Differential Order Pattern' Model", Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition), No. 2. ——Reprinted from Chinese Social Sciences Digest, No. 8, 2009.
Min Ren and Zhengjun Chen, 2020, Profession and Context: The Development of Social Work in Public Health Crises, Social Work, No. 1.
Ren Min and Yang Jing, 2012, "Multiple Informal Power Construction in Grassroots Government", Youth Studies, No. 4.
Ren Min and Hu Yidi, 2012, Professional Services: Enlightenment of the Development of Professional Social Workers to the Construction of Service-oriented Government in China, Tianjin: Journal of Tianjin Institute of Administration, No. 6. ——Reprinted in full in the third issue of Social Work, 2013.
Ren Min and Hu Yidi, 2012, "Solving the problem of landless peasants from the perspective of social work", Social Work, No. 4.
Ren Min, 2008, How to Do Research on the Sociology of Organizations in China, Society, No. 1.
Ren Min, 2003, A Cultural Anthropological Study of a Young "Tu" Ph.D. Wedding, Youth Studies, No. 5.
Ren, M., Wang, B., & Rasell, M. (2022). Flexibility and Professionalisation: Reflections on Adaptions by Social Work Services in China during COVID-19. Practice ： Social Work in Action, 34(2), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503153.2021.1998413
Ren, Min. 2019, Intra-organizational Legitimacy of an Adopted Technology: A Framework and a Case Study of ERP Implementation. The Journal of Chinese Sociology ， 6（21）.
VII. Projects
National Social Science Foundation of China National Emergency Management System Construction Research Project, "Research on Social Work Assistance for Bereaved Families in the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic" (20VYJ015), 2020
National Social Science Foundation Later Funding Project, "Information Technology Application and Organizational Culture Change", 2012
Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China (2020MZY009), "Research on the Rescue and Protection of Children Without Guardianship in Emergencies", 2020
Consumption Stratification Study: A Case Study in, supported by the Myron Foundation-State University of New York Urban China Study Program, Mellon Fund- the State University of New York Wuhan City, 2002
Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, project "Research on Policies and Measures for the Guardianship of Minors in Civil Affairs", 2022
Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs project "Research on the Working Mechanism of the Protection of Minors in Hubei Province", 2021
Hubei Social Work Federation project "Research on the Linkage of Five Communities and a Better Life", 2022
Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, "Research on Five-Community Linkage and Grassroots Governance", 2020
Hubei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, "Research on the Construction of Welfare Lottery Culture" (co-host), 2011
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Independent Research Project, "Research on Information Capital Construction for Poor People", 2019
Teaching Research Project, School of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, "Exploration of Shuttle Action Research Model in Social Work Education", 2016
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Independent Research Project, "Conditions and Boundaries of Information Technology Application in Organizations", 2014
Wuhan University Central University Basic Research Fund Independent Research Project, "Research on College Students' Employment Pressure: Problems and Mechanisms", 2010
VIII. Concurrent Academic Posts
Reviewer of Sociological Research, Youth Studies, Sociological Review, Journal of Wuhan University (Social Science Edition) and other journals
Member of the Sociology of Science and Technology Professional Committee, and member of the Technical Sociology Professional Committee
He is an individual director of the China Federation of Social Work, a member of the Social Work Theory Professional Committee, a member of the Social Work Internship and Supervision Professional Committee, and the deputy secretary-general of the Immigration Social Work Professional Committee
