2020-Present    PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK

• Full scholarship funded by the Cambridge Trust & the Ministry of Education, Taiwan

• Thesis: Queering Relatedness: Gay Men's Reproductive Paths and Family Making in Taiwan

• Supervisors: Professor Sarah Franklin & Dr Marcin Smietana / Advisor: Dr Robert Pralat

• Examiners (Viva Committee): Professor Sara Friedman & Dr Amy Brainer

2017-2018      MSc in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

• Dissertation: Coming Out or Closeted: Lesbians’ Identity and Everyday Life Practices in Taiwan

• Supervisor: Dr Ursula Henz

2012-2017      BA in Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 

• Double-major in Sociology & Foreign Languages and Literature

• Exchange student, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany (2014-2015)

• GPA 4.02, ranking 1/36

Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

1. Jung Chen. (2024) We are family: Taiwanese gay fathers’ strategic normalisation decision-making in transnational reproduction. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2024.2311491 Online first: 2 February 2023.

•       Young Scholar Award (joint 1st Prize), European Association of Taiwan Studies

2. Jung Chen. (2024) Gendering the beginning of life: Taiwanese gay fathers’ navigation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis-assisted sex selection in transnational third-party reproduction. Sociology of Health & Illness. Online first: 27th December 2023. http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13747  (SSCI) 

3. Jung Chen. (2024) Taiwanese gay fathers’ queer family making: Towards a temporal-relational path. LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 20 (1): 35-54.  DOI: 10.1080/27703371.2023.2262425  (SSCI) 

4. Jung Chen. (2023) Queering reproductive justice: Framing reproduction of gay men from a transnational perspective—Taiwan as a case. Sociology Compass, 17(12): 1-18.  DOI:10.1111/soc4.13139  (SSCI)

5. Ya-Ping Lin, Jung Chen, Wei-Chen Lee, Yang-Jen Chiang & Chih-Wan Huang. (2021) Understanding family dynamics in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation decision-making in Taiwan: Motivation, communication, and ambivalence. American Journal of Transplantation, 21(3): 1068-1079. DOI:10.1111/ajt.16281 (SCI)

Book Chapter (Peer-reviewed)

1. Jung Chen. (accepted, forthcoming) Coming out as everyday life activism: ‘Displaying’ gay father families in Taiwan. In Olomouc Asian Studies, Vol. III: Bodies, Gender, Identities. Olomouc, Czechia: Palacký University Olomouc.

Book Reviews

1. Jung Chen. (accepted, forthcoming) Book review: Understanding baby loss: The sociology of life, death and post-mortem. Sociology of Health & Illness. (SSCI)

2. Jung Chen. (2024) Bookshelf: Intimate strangers: Commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the making of truth. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. Online first: 8 Apr 2024. doi:10.1080/26410397.2024.2328474 (SSCI) 

3. Jung Chen. (2024) Media review: Making gaybies: queer reproduction and multiracial feeling. LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Online first: 9 Apr 2024.  doi: 10.1080/27703371.2024.2327049 (SSCI) 

4. Jung Chen. (2023) Book review: Queer(y)ing kinship in the Baltic region and beyond. LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 19(5): 431-434. doi:10.1080/27703371.2023.2218820 (SSCI) 

5. Jung Chen. (2023) Book review: Donors: Curious connections in donor conception. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 31(1): 1-3.  doi: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2245617 (SSCI) 

6. Jung Chen. (2021) Queering relatedness: Book review of Queer kinship and family change in Taiwan [台灣在地的酷兒親緣: 評 Queer kinship and family change in Taiwan]. Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies [女學學誌：婦女與性別研究], 48: 137-148.  doi: 10.6255/JWGS.202106_(48).05  (in Mandarin) (TSSCI) 

7. Jung Chen. (2021) Queer kinship and family change in Taiwan. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 17(1): 84-85. doi: 10.1080/1550428X.2021.1876551 (SSCI) 

1. Jung Chen. (accepted, forthcoming) Whose stratified reproduction? Disparities in Taiwanese gay men’s quest for overseas surrogacy. Taiwan Insight. (Taiwan Research Hub, University of Nottingham)

2. Jung Chen. (accepted, forthcoming) Queer re-creations: The emerging representations of Taiwanese lesbians in literature travelling beyond Taiwan. Engenderings. (Department of Gender Studies, LSE)

3. Jung Chen. (2022) What happens when legalisation does not catch up with the thriving surrogacy industry. Bluesci:Cambridge University Science Magazine.

4. Yan-Yi Lee & Jung Chen. (2022) Same-sex reproductive rights are as important as marriage rights. Varsity: Independent student newspaper for the University of Cambridge.

2024 Queering reproductive justice? Taiwanese gay men’s (in)accessibility to reproduction surrogacy. Will be given at “Queering Asia” event at the Korean Studies Department, University of Tübingen, Germany. 17th July 2024. 

2024 Whose stratified reproduction? The uneven accessibility among gay men accessing cross-border reproductive care. Will be given at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 18th April 2024.

2021 Made in the UK: Altruistic surrogacy and queer reproduction. Given at the LGBTQ Family Rights Advocacy, 28th September 2021. (online)

2024 The emerging mixed-race privilege: Taiwanese gay fathers’ navigation through donor eggs selection in transnational third-party reproduction. Presented at AAS Annual Conference. 14th-17th March 2024. Seattle, Washington, US: Association for Asian Studies. (presented remotely)

2023 Unequal accessibilities to reproductive technologies: A socioeconomic analysis of Taiwanese gay fathers seeking transnational third-party reproduction. Presented at The Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference: Technology and Multi-Faceted Change in Taiwan and Globally. 27th September 2023. Oxford (University of Oxford, St Anthony’s College), UK: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.

2023 Gendering the beginning of life: Taiwanese gay fathers’ decisions on embryo sex selection. Presented at Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life and Death. 24th-25th August 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark: Aalborg University in Copenhagen.

2023    Navigating Time and Relationships: Gay Men’s Transnational Reproductive Journey towards Fatherhood. Presented at Mind the Gap: Disrupting Divisions. 29th-30th July 2023. London, UK: King’s College London, University of London.

2023    Taiwanese gay fathers’ navigation of embryo sex selection in transnational reproductive settings. Presented at Taiwan Europe Connectivity Workshop. 16th-21st July 2023. Tübingen, Germany: European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

2023    We are family: Taiwanese gay fathers’ strategic normalisation decision-making in transnational reproduction. Presented at European Association of Taiwan Studies Conference. 26th-28th June 2023. London, UK: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2023    Creating families differently: Taiwanese gay fathers’ normalisation strategies in transnational third-party reproduction. Presented at British Sociological Association Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference: Reproduction and Progress? Reflections and Revisions. 22nd June 2023. London, UK: University College London (British Sociological Association).

2023    Normalising gay father families? Taiwanese gay men’s strategic decisions in transnational reproduction. Presented at Cambridge Queer Studies Conference. 13th May 2023. Cambridge, UK: Department of Education.

2023    Mobilising Reproduction in COVID-19 Time: Border Control, and Kinship Recognition of Taiwanese Gay Father’s Surrogacy Travel. Presented at Reproductive Justice in a (Post-)COVID World: Transnational Protest and Resistance. 18th-19th April 2023. Cambridge, UK: Downing College.

2023    Who am I standing for? The positionality of a lesbian researcher studying gay fathers’ reproduction, in the panel ‘Challenges facing LGBTQ+ researchers studying youth, education, and parenting’. Presented at LGBTQ+ Studies at Risk. 23rd-24th March 2023. London, UK: University College London. 

2022    Coming out as gay fathers in Taiwan: displaying queer families as everyday life activism, in the panel ‘Multiple queer identities and practices in Taiwan’ (also as the moderator). Presented at 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Bodies, Gender, Identities. 25th-26th November 2022. Olomouc, Czechia: Palacký University Olomouc. 

2022    Reproductive Disparities: A Comparison between UK and Taiwan. Presented with Ana Carretero-Resino and Jhu Cin Rita Jhang, at 1st Taiwan-UK Conference on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Health Research. 16th July 2022. Taiwan and UK: The Taiwan-UK SGS Health Research Network, UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology. (online)

2021    Becoming queer parents: How LGBTQ+ in Taiwan access transnational assisted reproductive technologies. Presented at Out Loud: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Research in Newnham’s MCR. 25th February 2021. Cambridge, UK: Newnham College. (online)

2021    Reproductive justice: Collaborating with NGO for law amendment in Taiwan. Presented at Research in the 21st century: Possibilities and Challenges Conference. 29th January 2021. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Economic and Social Research Council, Doctoral Training Partnerships. (online)

2018    Floating identity: Lesbians’ coming out strategies and boundary-crossing [認同的游移、跨界與逗留： 女同志的出櫃策略與身分政治]. Presented at 2018 Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Conference: Sociology-In-Action. 1st-2nd December 2018. Hsinchu, Taiwan: Taiwanese Sociological Association [臺灣社會學年會].

2018    Lesbians’ identity and everyday life practices. Presented at 2018 Taiwan Studies Summer School Conference. 7th-12th July 2018. London, UK: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2023            Young Scholar Award (joint 1st Prize), European Association of Taiwan Studies

•  Awarded article: We are family: Taiwanese gay fathers’ strategic normalisation decision-making in transnational reproduction, published in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.

2013            Academic Achievement Award, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Full Scholarships

2020-24     Taiwan Cambridge Scholarship (4-year), Cambridge Trust, UK & Ministry of Education, Taiwan (臺灣劍橋百大獎學金)

2019             Taiwan Government Fellowship for PhD (4-year), Ministry of Education, Taiwan (declined) (108年教育部公費留學考試：社會科學學群／性別研究學門)

2014-15     International Exchange Scholarship (one-year), Taiwan National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan & Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Fieldwork Grants

2023            Research and Travel Award (Fieldwork), Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK

2022            PhD Fieldwork Funding, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK

Conference Travel Grants

2023            Conference Grant for TechnoDeath Conference, Cambridge Trust, UK 

2023            PhD Conference Grant, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK

2023            Workshop Funding, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

2023            Travel grants for 2023 EATS Conference, European Association of Taiwan Studies

2023            Travel grants for LGBTQ+ Studies at Risk Conference, University College London, UK

2022            Research and Travel Award (Conference), Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK

2022            Early Career Researchers Day Award, The Sociological Review, UK    

2023                       Guest Lecturer

• Course: East Asian States and Societies

• Dr Isabelle Cockel, School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK 

• Lecture Title: An uneasy path towards fatherhood: Taiwanese gay men’s limited accessibility to transnational reproduction

2021                       Supervisor

• Paper: SOC10 Sociology of Gender: transnational feminism

• Dr Julieta Chaparro Buitrago, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK

2017                       Teaching Assistant

• • • • • • • Course: Civil Society and Constitutional Democracy 

            • Dr Shiau-Chi Shen, Centre for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

2016–2017        Teaching Assistant

• Course: Introduction to Politics

• Dr Shiau-Chi Shen, The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Peer-Reviews 

LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Children & Society, and Routledge, Taylor & Francis (monograph proposal review)

University of Cambridge

2020–2021  Coordinator, Sociology PhD Research Seminar Series

2018–2020         Research Assistant (full-time)

• Project: Living-Related Organ Donation Decision-Making: Gender, Power and Family Politics            

• Dr Ya-Ping Lin, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

2017                   Research Assistant (part-time)

• Project: Skill Learning and Embodiment: Comparison of Trajectories and Learning Patterns of Young Migrant Workers in China and Young Farmers in Taiwan 

• Dr I-Chieh Fang, Institution of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

2015 –2016       Research Assistant (part-time)

• Project: Annual Project on Bibliography-Building of Humanities and Social Science Research: Ancient Greek Philosophy

• Dr Fei-Ting Chen, Institution of Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

2018       Consultant (part-time)

• • • Environmental Investigation Agency, London, UK