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• Ms. Tran Thi Minh Thi is the Vice Director of the Institute for Family and Gender Studies (IFGS), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). She also hold the post of faculty member of Department of Sociology, Graduate Academy of Social Sciences. Sh...More

  Ms. Tran Thi Minh Thi is the Vice Director of the Institute for Family and Gender Studies (IFGS), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). She also hold the post of faculty member of Department of Sociology, Graduate Academy of Social Sciences. She gained Master degree of Sociology at the University of Washington, US in 2006 and PhD degree of Sociology at Kyoto University, Japan in 2012. Her current research addresses various issues of family, gender, care, health and value changes in comparative perspective. Her current studies on the elderly issues included: “Elderly Care in Transforming Vietnam: Policy and Structural Perspectives”. 2015-2016, funded by Nafosted Vietnam, “Construction of effective network for well-being of the left-behind elderly in rural community through cooperative studies between Ha Tinh and Quang Ngai provinces, Vietnam and Minamata city, Japan”, funded by Toyota Foundation, “Value changes in contemporary Vietnamese families”, funded by Vietnam government. She has writen a book on Divorce in Contemporary Viet Nam: A Socio-economic and structural analysis of divorce in the Red River Delta in 2000s. Social Sciences Publishing House. 2014, edited a chapter title “Divorce prevalence under the forces of individualism and collectivism in ‘shortcut’ modernity in Vietnam” in Atsufumi, Kato (ed). Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam: The Agency of Women in Family, Religion and Community. Brill Publishers Asian Studies. The Netherlands. 2015. She is member of the Brill publication project on Care regimes in Transforming Asian countries, in which she has contributed a chapter entitled “Care regimes in Vietnam’. Less

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